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vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject:

GeoTrail,
Are you getting an error message because

Hortalonus · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject:

If the combo has the LIST style, you should just be able to use the %%temp = @MATCH(COMBONAME,%%Engine) function (thanks for the correction mindpower). Make sure you replace COMBONAME with the name of your combo box.

vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject:

Hortalonus · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 5:38 pm Post subject:

Uh... yeah, I'm not sure what that was I just smoked... thanks for the heads up mindpower. My former post has been edited.

moke · Contributor Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 162

Just be careful with @match. It will find a match if the string your looking
to match appears in the list item but is not an exact match.

For instance, when searching for MYITEM you would match on any list
item starting with MYITEM.

Myitem-1 would match
Myitem2 would match
Myitem todaY would match
1-myitem would not match

I sometimes use @match along with @equal to be sure i have an exact match

moke

Hortalonus · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 6:30 pm Post subject:

Garrett · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 6:54 pm Post subject:

Easier way to do this, is when you save to your INI or to the REGISTRY,
don't save the name of the item, save the index number instead. When
you open the program again, pull that value from the ini or registry, and
then you can do just a simple list seek.

-Garrett

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GeoTrail · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:07 pm Post subject:

That worked great Hortalonus. Thanks alot.

FreezingFire, Yeah, I've thought about that, but I want users of the program to be able to add more engines them selfs, and it would be easier. Anyways, it's working now Smile

Now I'm gonna make a simple engine editor where users can easily add engines to the url list.

Is VDS 5 out now?

How about now?

OK, now then? Twisted Evil

cnodnarb · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:39 pm Post subject:

GeoTrail · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject:

cnodnarb, just looking at your signature...

I sure hope it's gonne be out before september. I can't wait that long...

Garrett · Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject:

Personally, I prefer using ini files over the registry. The registry is a
dangerous place to be and use. I've spent a lot of time learning about
the registry, playing in the registry, and totally messing up my system
from playing with the registry. So in the end, IMHO, using an ini is
far safer and easier to use. Plus, if something goes flaky with your
program and you need to solve it by just deleting it's settings, it's easier
getting the user to delete an ini file as opposed to having them open
regedit, and then trying to explain to them how to find your reg entries,
and then to chance having them delete the wrong entries.

BTW, on my system, I have 939 ini files for a total 3.35 megs. That's
with two versions of Windows on the system, and several hundred ini
files from my own programming. The registry files on my system
total up to 6.8 megs.

-Garrett

GeoTrail · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:28 am Post subject:

OK, I've got the whole list working now. Except from one small detail.
If the user have never used the program before, there won't be any last engine in the registry.

So how can I select the first item in the list? I've tried %%temp = @item(1)
%%temp = @index(1) but it don't work.

GeoTrail · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:37 am Post subject:

Never mind.

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject: