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Autogets was written entirely in Microsoft 'C', v. 5.1 with Clipper and QEDIT
in mind. So the gets.bat and getno.env are written to help interface the
two together. Escentially, autogets is called by a .bat file which was
called by hitting the ^F8 key after loading CLIP.MAC (ALT F7) into Qedit.
The macro for using it follows:
^f8 MacroBegin dos "gets errors.lst" cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft &
cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft cursorleft &
cursorleft pause return return horizontalwindow editfile "errors.lst" return
Autogets has built in help so just type "autogets ?" or "autogets help"
to see the help description. If you type "autogets" - well try it and see.
I GUARANTEE NO VIRUSES - I have every desire to provide good, quality,
beneficial routines.
What does "autogets" do? Glad you asked!! It does generation from an
identified .DBF file (read only) of memvar dupes of field names, prepended
with 'm'. It declares them private, as well. It does all of the "@ SAY GET"
stuff, writes out two "PROC's" for initializing "mFIELDS" (etc.), provides
a standard "replacing" function, and offers the option of including a
simple but tested record locking routine for multi-user consideration.
This is really nice within an editor which supports multiple windows and
macro key assignment (like QEDIT). Just, punch a key, and autogets does
all the boring coding, in just an instant. Then, the macro resumes,
bringing the generated file (I repeatedly use "errors.lst") into a new
window, ready for copying to the target .PRG and editing.
The "dos" function of qedit is used to prompt for the input filename from
within "Qedit". To bring my utilities to bear in the shortest time, just
include the command line above in either a doc file for making a binary
image with qmac, or put it into qconfig.dat. Set all windows to "close on
exit" Y . Very simple and nice.
I recommend keeping the qconfig.exe and .dat, qedit.exe, qhelp.txt in a
subdir, not on the path. I have had some unpredictable side effects with
some utilities, and having a backup copy of this editor has saved me much
grief.
Listed below are the files included on the disk, and a brief description.
GETS .BAT ║ 1,765 ║ 1- 3-90 ║ 6:04p
Called by "^F8" from within qedit to execute "AUTOGETS". Loads file
"errors.lst" into alternate window for copying and editing.
README .BAT ║ 277 ║ 1- 4-90 ║ 5:42p
The message identifier for MAIL4.YOU.
ORDERS .DBF ║ 928 ║ 7- 7-89 ║ 3:40p
Example .dbf to check out "autogets" on.
GETSNO .ENV ║ 1,897 ║ 1- 3-90 ║ 6:04p
A replacement for gets.bat if you get the "out-of-environment" message
while running gets.bat. Just rename to gets.bat.
AUTOGETS.EXE ║ 19,569 ║ 2-03-90 ║ 3:42p
The potatoes and dessert of this package. Does a fair
amount of error checking. Runs standalone, or callable from within Qedit.
DISPSTRU.EXE ║ 11,821 ║ 12-14-89 ║ 10:33a
The dos level Display structure utility of a .DBF file.
WHAT .EXE ║ 3,170 ║ 7-31-87 ║
A .bat file utility for gaining better control (something like EBL), uses
"dos environment space"
MAIL4 .YOU ║ 4,794 ║ 2- 4-90 ║ 6:51p
This file.
As a parting note,
Configure QEDIT to close the windows on exit and my other utilities allow
graceful one key exit and clean up to clear files AND close the window
when through without going through the ESC menu.
You are the FIRST recipients of AUTOGETS AND DISPSTRU. I really look forward to
feed back from you all. Impressions, ideas, suggestions. You will have your own
opinions on the qconfig.dat (hell, everybody else does). Do whatever works for
you.
Please freely distribute "autogets.exe", and make any comments to Compuserve,
Semware, etc. Like everybody else I'm trying to offer some good tools, but
need to make a living. Please do not "give away" copies of the "Qedit" support
stuff (qconfig, clip.doc, clip.mac, etc), but if you want to demonstrate to a
friend please do. I've spent many hours debugging and improving these tools
and have further provided fairly "descent" (?spelling) documentation as a
"teaching" aid. Tear 'em up. AS always, if you are not a REGISTERED
Qeditor, BECOME one (et al).
Happy Clipping;
Charles Burfoot
(214) 328-6201 home
(214) 276-5131 x380 work
7425 La Vista Dr. #128
Dallas, TX 75214 CIS [73057,3204]