Jeremy Nicoll

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024, at 15:10, Robert Bridges wrote: Yeah, I'd have thought the same thing; it certainly would have failed in TSO-REXX, where both expressions would be evaluated before ORing them. My usual response to a situation like this is to use SELECT: ~~~ select when \datatype(value,'Whole') then fbad=1 when value<0 then fbad=1 otherwise fbad=0; end if fbad then... I use select often for this sort of thing; the only difference is that usually I put text explaining what the problem is in 'fbad'...

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, at 01:07, Robert Bridges wrote: The ref says I can make two ATTRIBUTE statements using ATTRIBUTE GET and ATTRIBUTE SET, giving this as an example: ::attribute size get ::attribute size set expose size use arg value / retrieve argument / if datatype(value, "Whole") = .false | value < 0 then raise syntax 93.906 array ("size", value) size=value In my view, the example has poor coding in it (not related to your issue) in this line: if datatype(value, "Whole") = .false | value < 0...

On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, at 15:33, Robert Bridges wrote: "I don't know" is a perfectly acceptable answer, Jeremy :-). But I just noticed I forgot to answer your question. I have a handful of scripts each of which open two or three or four windows in preparation for a certain kind of work. When I want to pay my monthly bills, one of them opens three or four Excel workbooks. When I want to start playing with ooRexx, another of these scripts opens two folders and a DOS command window.... Here, I have two...

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024, at 20:46, Robert Bridges wrote: Jeremy, you answered question #2. But about #1: I know you were trying to give helpful advice, but are you under the impression that you answered the question? As far as I can see you didn't. I don't /know/ if the absence of a cmd window precludes the display of a (simple) GUI message box, which is why I didn't say. I'd turn your question aound and ask why you chose to use ".rexh" and thus rexx/HIDE/.exe when .rex & thus rexx.exe are likely more...

On Mon, 3 Jun 2024, at 18:40, Robert Bridges wrote: 1) I see that RxMessageBox works when the REXX exec is named something.rexp, but when I change it to something.rexh the message box fails to appear. Is this the way it's supposed to work? There's a choice of three executables to run an exec:. You probably want ".rex" rather than ".rexh" for normal ones. See Ch 2 of the Progammer's Guide ... search for "rexxhide". 2) I tried to look in the Reference and the Programmer's Guide to find the answer,...

On Sun, 26 May 2024, at 20:09, Dom Wise wrote: When ::OPTIONS TRACE ?R (or similar with the interactive flag) is specified, all ROUTINEs and METHODs in a package have interactive tracing automatically switched on. This is very useful for debugging as adding one line switches tracing on everywhere but sometimes there might be a small number of ROUTINEs or METHODs (those called frequently and /or with known correct behaviour) for which this is not required or desired. In the mid 1980s I had a 16,000+...

On Fri, 17 May 2024, at 01:51, Dom Wise wrote: RxFuncAdd doesn't work with just any function . You need a "wrapper" library that is called from Rexx and which makes the API call, translating Rexx strings to /from the parameters and return result for the API call . Long ago Florian Grosse-Coosmann created (or started to) a "Generic Call Interface" but I don't know if it is complete. I'd rather hoped that some or all of this had being built-in to ooREXX.aa See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rexx-gci/...

On Tue, 14 May 2024, at 00:52, Robert Bridges wrote: Ok, I'm making progress: I've figured out how to check a default radio button. Next, I have some text boxes that I styled READONLY: I see the same as you ... but it doesn't seem to be caused by specifying "READONLY". (I realise the /O style is what you wRnt later on, but it's a red herring at this stage, I think.) Leaving 'style' empty on the "self~createeditinput" invocations doesn't cause tet to be displayed either. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions...