The beginning of this important information about Daylight Saving Time has been provided by Brian Coles as part of his valuable information about AIX which I’ve placed in another article. The important point right now is:At 2am on Sunday October 29th, 2006, set your clocks back one hour if you’re in DST. But that’s not all [...]

This information has been provided by Brian Coles, AIX Engineer. If you use AIX or have clients using it, you will especially want to read this.

I originally started this Time category (see categories in right margin) just to document one issue, the coming of Daylight Saving Time changes. It seems there are a number of topics to be discussed, and not a lot of time to do it. I’m throwing this category together quickly, because … time is of the [...]

Over the years there seems to be continuing confusion on how the D3 OSFI works, and confusion with the similarly named FSI. In this first tip on this topic, I’ll provide a couple hints about how to use slashes and drive references, and some examples for use.

Dear CDBMA Pick User Group member, as you are well aware, we haven’t had a meeting for two years now. Is it lack of interest? Lack of material? Have you found another cure for insomnia? I don’t know about you but I miss the food. (Oh, and the people too!) So I pitched an idea [...]

One of the less intuitive aspects of working with DesignBais is that things aren’t always done directly. We don’t always use Field=Data to assign data to a field. We frequently need to tell the field where it needs to go to get its data, and then we load that data source as necessary.

Part 1 on Launching a URL provided details about how to launch a complex URL from a DesignBais form. In this Part 2 of 2 I’ll show you how to send e-mail from the user’s PC. The effect we’re looking for is a Click Here link which will launch the end-user’s email client, rather than sending [...]

There is an issue with DesignBais v3.3 and mv.NET v2.1.4 where starting DesignBais from the startDB.asp web page consistently fails with "cannot connect"-type messages that don’t lead to any specific problem. If you have not seen this then you don’t need the solution presented here, but for some of us the problem seems chronic.

I was asked by one of my clients to provide a button on a Customer Master Maintenance form which would launch a browser window to display a map showing directions from the home office to the customer being viewed. Oh boy, a challenge! This article provides info required for doing this.

When starting work with DesignBais all of us are introduced to that initial bit of code – the big Case block that does the Gosub to handle each event. Many of us copy this template to all of our programs, then cut out what we don’t need. Some of us leave it all in there, [...]