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Thanks Hans. I can’t get the instructions in the link to work but the clearing the check box “Compress weekend days is sufficient for my needs.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

Take a look here.

The write up is about Vista but it applies equally to Windows 7.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

Apparently nobody knows. I fear you’ll have to create your own translation table manually.

The HP Arabic8 character set can be found on page 47 of this scanned document (PDF), and the Arabic characters in the Unicode character set can be found here (also a PDF).

Thanks Hans. The information will be useful. Unfortunately I don’t think I can do this using pure substitution. The font structure on an HP 3000 is quite different from that used in Windows insomuch as for Arabic, where a character can have a number of shapes based on its position in a sentence it actually has a number of distinct character values. In order for me to do this by substitution I will have to reverse engineer the contextual analysis to pick the correct HP 3000 shape.

If I don’t give up I’ll post my solution ut to be honest, based on my progress so far, don’t bank on it.

Cheers,
Kevin Bell

Thanks for the link. I looked at the posts and had an epiphany.

I have fixed it. It was really simple.

Go into Start > Pictures
Click the “Organize” Dropdown and click “Folder and Search Options”
Under the “General” tab click “Show Previews and Filters”
Under the “View” tab, make sure “Always show icons, never thumbnails” is UNCHECKED. I also CHECKED “Display file icon on thumbnails”, for non-image files.
Click “Apply” then “OK”

I think this was changed using one of those ‘tweak vista’ programs when I probably said to optimise the GUI for speed although I can’t be certain. Anyway, it’s fixed and that’s all that counts.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

Thanks for the suggestion Hans. I will probably use that method if I do anything like this again.

I ended up creating a list of the bookmarks and their associated labels. then by plugging the column width into a VB .NET program and a lot of ‘tweaking’ I was able to calculate if the text to insert was too long for the line. Fortunately the actual data only contained a few (under 10) items that actually overflowed. I would not however, recommend this as a solution. Anybody facing the same problem, use Hans’ method. You’ll have a lot more hair left afterwards.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

We use Intermec hand held devices in our warehouses for similar functions. These devices are ruggedised and support wireless connectivity (WiFi and Bluetooth) and have built in barcode scanners. We don’t use the web browser but have proprietary in-house developed software.

There are a number of models available. Take a look.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately part of my original post is missing. My fault, I should have checked. What I meant to say is that I have a large collection of music that I have ripped from CDs to MP3 files on my server at home. Occasionally I need to recreate CDs for playing on a CD player or in my car. I like to include the Tag information on the CD so that when it plays you can see the information on the small screen on the front of the CD player or car stereo.

Roxio can create CDs but I can’t seem to get it to include the song information from the tags. I get Track1, Track2 etc and Unknown Album when I play the discs. I have tried everything but to no avail.

Media player writes the song and album information no bother but in certain cases reports that the music will not fit onto a single disc. This appears to be caused by MP inserting a gap between the tracks that pushes the total time over the limit of a normal CD. I was asking if this gap can be either shortened or eliminated.

Regards,
Kevin Bell

Thanks to everybody who posted. I’m in the fortunate position to have a supplier that will lend me equipment for me to try. After some Googling I decided to try the Logitec deNovo, the Microsoft Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 700 and the Microsoft Wireless Mutimedia Keyboard 1.1

The deNovo is a good keyboard but I found the communicatiuon to be flakey. It would lose its pairing with the PC after charging. This, while not a show stopper, is really annoying after the irst couple of times.

The Entertainment Keyboard is the most odious device I have ever had the misfortune to use. The keys are different sizes which is very awkward to get used to. The function keys, along with Home and End are touch ‘bumps’ along the top and the arrows keys are way too small for my stumpy fingers. After about 10 minutes of closing windows after I’d accidentaly touched one of the bumps I put it back in its box.

The multimedia keyboard is the one I selected. Sure, I don’t use or need the multimedia buttons but they are far enough away from the rest of the keys as to not get in the way. The layout is standard, the function keys are big enough and it has a numeric pad. The only drawback for me is that it uses batteries which I am not keen because Murphy’s Law states that when you need new batteries you never have any and using batteries is not exactly environmentally friendly.

Cheers,
Kevin Bell

Rory,

Thanks for the splendid piece of code but unfortunately it doesn’t work. It sets the focus to the window alright but the Ctrl+N disappears into the ether. My guess is that somehow the button alone is set to accept the Ctrl+N. Thanks for trying anyway.

I have solved the problem by using AutoIt. I downloaded AutoIt and created a script that does a Ping then depending on the result performs a Click event on the button. It’s not pretty but it works.

Thanks to everybody who has helped.

Regards,

Kevin Bell

For anybody who is interested, a picture the main window of the Mobily application is attached. The control to focus on is the button captioned DISCONNECT. I need to click this when it is captioned CONNECT. The shortcut key is Ctrl+N but activating the window programatically and sending Ctrl+N via SendKeys doesn’t work.

Kevin

Unfortunately not. The WIreless dongle is a proprietary device that will only work if the driver and software are running.

I have tried activating the software’s window and sending a Control+N, the shortcut for the button, via SendKeys but this doesn’t work.

I’ll keep trying and report if I have something.

Kevin

Try Googling prnadmin

I haven’t had time to look at it myself but it seems to have a lot of functionality.

Cheers,
kevin

Thanks Hans and Stuart. I have a file containing country and area codes that I have used to construct a lookup table. I have written a Function to search through it starting with the first 7 (The longest country code + area code is 7 characters) significant characters of the phone number and working backwards. I’ve attached the file in case anybody is interested.

The problem with this approach when using Excel is that with the resulting table containing over 8000 rows the function is SLOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW.

Anyway, onward and upward.

Cheers,
Kevin

By the way, how do you call VLOOKUP from within a VBA function? When I tried it the compiler gave me Unknown Function or Sub.

Hans, you are a venerable fountain of information. Problem solved.

Thanks a lot.

Kevin

Remember that MDAs are disabled in Release builds and anyway, what would be the purpose of enabling a Debug feature when a user is running your program? If I were you, and of course I’m not, I would just let sleeping dogs lie. Use the MDA as a Debugging tool and forget about it when you release your program into the wild.

Regards,
Kevin Bell