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Yes, certainly. Try this: Sub Main() ... 760 Views / 4 Replies  
Yes, certainly. Try this:


Sub Main()

Dim sigFigs As Long
Dim formatString As String
Dim formattedString As String

sigFigs = 4
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 12, 2002 at 08:42 AM, in Developer Center
Re: Visual Basic : Getting a formatted Cell Value 760 Views / 4 Replies  
How are you going about copying it to a string? I assume you're doing this from the VBA macro programming environment.

If you're using someRange.Value (where someRange is the cell you're...
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 11, 2002 at 09:09 AM, in Developer Center
OK, this one has been verified in Frodo: ... 1,554 Views / 27 Replies  
OK, this one has been verified in Frodo:

sca-lcp1.zip (http://www.sca.ch/c64/software/sca-lcp1.d64)

It's not a virgin copy, but it works. Make sure the "Full 1541 Emulation" option under the...
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 3, 2002 at 09:30 AM, in Applications
Haven't tried it with an emulator, but there's a... 1,554 Views / 27 Replies  
Haven't tried it with an emulator, but there's a page with some downloads here:

Little Computer People (http://www.eidolons-inn.de/lcp/lcp.html)
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 2, 2002 at 01:35 PM, in Applications
If all you want to change is the background... 4,470 Views / 61 Replies  
If all you want to change is the background color, you can just change it in the hex editor, but chances are the image won't look right on it.

Photoshop has a color table editor built into it...
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 2, 2002 at 01:16 PM, in Applications
Yes, just create a 128x128 256-color-indexed... 4,470 Views / 61 Replies  
Yes, just create a 128x128 256-color-indexed image in Photoshop, save out your color table as a .ACT file, and save out the image as a .RAW file. Then paste all the bytes from the .ACT and the...
Posted by Marshall, on Sep 1, 2002 at 04:00 PM, in Applications
It looks like the background color (displayed... 4,470 Views / 61 Replies  
It looks like the background color (displayed while the boot image is visible) is the second color in the color table used for the boot image (3 bytes starting at 0x129BD - hex:BFBFBF,...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 30, 2002 at 10:30 AM, in Applications
In case someone comes looking at this thread... 725 Views / 5 Replies  
In case someone comes looking at this thread hoping for a final answer someday...

I got Pine 4.44 to compile on 10.2 by first commenting out the "extern int sys_nerr;" line near the end of...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 20, 2002 at 08:10 AM, in macOS
To expand upon Mactoid's explanation of why "."... 3,965 Views / 43 Replies  
To expand upon Mactoid's explanation of why "." is not included in the default path: suppose you downloaded some archive from (what you might not have known to be) a questionable source. This...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 19, 2002 at 09:48 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Why did Apple screw 10.2 Terminal? 3,965 Views / 43 Replies  
The c and s are swapped in your example above; it looks like you need to correct the spelling in your .login file.
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 19, 2002 at 09:45 PM, in macOS
Ah, on my machines it's giving me the fully... 1,152 Views / 6 Replies  
Ah, on my machines it's giving me the fully qualified name, but they both have static IP's. I don't have a means of testing it with, say, a name assigned by a DHCP server.

That being said, have...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 15, 2002 at 01:16 PM, in Developer Center
Re: Wget in JAG 669 Views / 4 Replies  
To use curl for a simple transfer:

curl -O http://your.address.here/file

To resume an incomplete transfer:

curl -O -C - http://your.address.here/file

The default behavior of curl is...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 15, 2002 at 09:33 AM, in Applications
Re: getting FQDN via cocoa 1,152 Views / 6 Replies  
Try:

NSString *hostName = [[NSHost currentHost] name];
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 15, 2002 at 09:13 AM, in Developer Center
Application bundles all have a specific format;... 774 Views / 7 Replies  
Application bundles all have a specific format; looking through the system at various apps will give you an idea of how to manually create one.

However, the easiest way by far would be to just...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 12, 2002 at 01:15 PM, in Developer Center
c++ -framework OpenGL -framework GLUT -lobjc... 774 Views / 7 Replies  
c++ -framework OpenGL -framework GLUT -lobjc main.cpp worked for me.
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 11, 2002 at 03:50 PM, in Developer Center
ODBC is a standard protocol for accessing... 734 Views / 8 Replies  
ODBC is a standard protocol for accessing databases. The theory is that an application can be written to use ODBC and could then talk to any kind of database just by setting up an ODBC "Data Source"...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 10, 2002 at 11:08 AM, in macOS
True, a product that Apple called "Mac OS X... 3,292 Views / 53 Replies  
True, a product that Apple called "Mac OS X Server" was shipped in March 1999, but it was essentially OPENSTEP/Mach with the Platinum appearance hacked onto it and a few utilities added. It bears...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 7, 2002 at 01:20 PM, in macOS
Well, it's not quite that clean. As your linked... 3,292 Views / 53 Replies  
Well, it's not quite that clean. As your linked page alludes to, Cutler joined Microsoft in the late eighties, when MS was still partnering with IBM on OS/2. The OS/2 "New Technology" project was...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 7, 2002 at 10:00 AM, in macOS
It sounds like (from the mention of... 505 Views / 2 Replies  
It sounds like (from the mention of NSMutableArray) this is being done in Objective-C.

You could declare the variable in your header like this:

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Posted by Marshall, on Jul 27, 2002 at 04:38 PM, in Developer Center
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 445 Views / 15 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by clebin:
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More...
Posted by Marshall, on Jul 25, 2002 at 02:54 PM, in macOS
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by RyanG3:
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More...
Posted by Marshall, on Jul 24, 2002 at 10:14 AM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 1,562 Views / 36 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by almcpeake:
<strong>The...
Posted by Marshall, on Jul 10, 2002 at 05:04 PM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 648 Views / 7 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 25, 2002 at 01:52 PM, in Developer Center
A bit more info that I just found out:... 2,043 Views / 20 Replies  
A bit more info that I just found out: NSBitmapImageRep can draw itself without needing to be wrapped in an NSImage. It won't alpha-blend the image or do any other compositing effects, but if you're...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 25, 2002 at 09:16 AM, in Developer Center
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 2,043 Views / 20 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by Brass:
<strong>Out of...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 24, 2002 at 06:57 PM, in Developer Center
Brass, in an attempt to help and teach myself a... 2,043 Views / 20 Replies  
Brass, in an attempt to help and teach myself a couple things at the same time, I took your code and used it as the basis for a subclass of NSView called "PixelView". I placed this custom view on a...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 24, 2002 at 11:15 AM, in Developer Center
Regarding the error... ... 599 Views / 14 Replies  
Regarding the error...

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 4, 2002 at 05:15 PM, in Developer Center
[Double-post] <small>[ 05-30-2002, 08:24... 770 Views / 10 Replies  
[Double-post]

<small>[ 05-30-2002, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: Marshall ]</small>
Posted by Marshall, on May 30, 2002 at 08:23 PM, in Applications
From the Dreamweaver MX <a... 770 Views / 10 Replies  
From the Dreamweaver MX <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx.html#general" target="_blank">Release Notes</a> :

Tabbed panels within panel groups...
Posted by Marshall, on May 30, 2002 at 07:57 PM, in Applications
First of all, for initially learning C, all of... 709 Views / 15 Replies  
First of all, for initially learning C, all of your development is going to be command-line based, so you need to be familiar with Terminal.

I would suggest using Project Builder as your editor,...
Posted by Marshall, on May 24, 2002 at 10:50 AM, in Developer Center
I don't have the book (yet), but I spent some... 709 Views / 15 Replies  
I don't have the book (yet), but I spent some time looking through it and reading the first few chapters. It looks very good both technically (as it should be, considering Dennis Ritchie created the...
Posted by Marshall, on May 24, 2002 at 07:39 AM, in Developer Center
I don't have a copy of the OS 9 version here at... 1,967 Views / 69 Replies  
I don't have a copy of the OS 9 version here at the moment ... how does it differ from the OS X version?
Posted by Marshall, on May 9, 2002 at 08:16 PM, in Developer Center
Well, keep in mind that the .NET framework... 689 Views / 39 Replies  
Well, keep in mind that the .NET framework encompasses more areas than just those on which Carbon and Cocoa are focused. The Collections, Drawing, Text, Windows Forms, etc. namespaces have rough...
Posted by Marshall, on May 8, 2002 at 01:40 PM, in Developer Center
In case it's helpful...if you un-check the 'Use... 900 Views / 16 Replies  
In case it's helpful...if you un-check the 'Use "dig" in place of "nslookup"' option in Network Utility, it will give you a much simpler display than the default. Dig, as moki said, provides more...
Posted by Marshall, on May 8, 2002 at 06:30 AM, in Applications
In case it's helpful...if you un-check the 'Use... 739 Views / 13 Replies  
In case it's helpful...if you un-check the 'Use "dig" in place of "nslookup"' option in Network Utility, it will give you a much simpler display than the default. Dig, as moki said, provides more...
Posted by Marshall, on May 8, 2002 at 06:30 AM, in macOS
I too am thinking that it means that the text for... 1,088 Views / 67 Replies  
I too am thinking that it means that the text for the icon can be shown either below the icon or to the right of it (when in Icon view). It would be the equivalent of Windows XP's "Tile" view, which...
Posted by Marshall, on May 7, 2002 at 11:20 PM, in macOS
Here's the real explanation, straight from the... 530 Views / 9 Replies  
Here's the real explanation, straight from the cousin of the brother of the girlfriend of an engineer who once went to a concert attended by a Macromedia intern:

MX is the Roman numeral...
Posted by Marshall, on Mar 5, 2002 at 11:24 PM, in Applications
Well, I'm not sure how it would best be... 940 Views / 4 Replies  
Well, I'm not sure how it would best be done...still too new at Cocoa. But this may do what you need:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1...
Posted by Marshall, on Jan 5, 2002 at 01:04 AM, in Developer Center
11011001, I don't know if this suits your... 760 Views / 6 Replies  
11011001, I don't know if this suits your purposes or not, but SDL ( http://www.libsdl.org ) is a free cross-platform API for doing graphics and audio. Supports OS X (using Cocoa), classic Mac OS,...
Posted by Marshall, on Jan 4, 2002 at 10:40 AM, in Developer Center
Are you trying to composite them on the display,... 940 Views / 4 Replies  
Are you trying to composite them on the display, or are you trying to create a third image composed of the two others?

The way I've done it so far for display purposes is subclassing NSView, and...
Posted by Marshall, on Jan 4, 2002 at 10:31 AM, in Developer Center
OS X will refuse to delete them until they are... 371 Views / 1 Replies  
OS X will refuse to delete them until they are unlocked. Open the Trash under OS X, open the Inspector (Get Info), and go through the files and unlock them. This is one of the times that having a...
Posted by Marshall, on Aug 11, 2001 at 12:44 AM, in macOS
I also started out in Graphite, and then switched... 645 Views / 47 Replies  
I also started out in Graphite, and then switched to Blue to make things look more interesting. The lack of color in the window buttons never bothered me though.
Posted by Marshall, on Jul 4, 2001 at 11:26 PM, in macOS
The quote "C# may be cool" is somewhat amusing,... 954 Views / 46 Replies  
The quote "C# may be cool" is somewhat amusing, since COOL was C#'s code name...

I agree that the same thing will happen with C# as happened with VB and ASP, which is that it will become wildly...
Posted by Marshall, on Jul 4, 2001 at 11:19 PM, in macOS
Ken_F2, Actually, I have a box sitting next... 1,508 Views / 16 Replies  
Ken_F2,

Actually, I have a box sitting next to me here running XP Beta 2 (which unfortunately doesn't have the Silver color scheme...I like that a lot better than the garish blue, and IE6 just...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 13, 2001 at 07:54 AM, in macOS
This part of the article in particular indicates... 1,508 Views / 16 Replies  
This part of the article in particular indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of where Apple is going with the UI versus Microsoft. Microsoft seems to be moving increasingly toward tacking more...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 12, 2001 at 06:41 AM, in macOS
I reformatted and reinstalled OS X a couple weeks... 1,375 Views / 28 Replies  
I reformatted and reinstalled OS X a couple weeks ago, and I too have only the PPC version.
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 10, 2001 at 08:26 AM, in macOS
Yes it does. These threads might help: ... 695 Views / 12 Replies  
Yes it does. These threads might help:
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=33&t=002485 http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=33&t=002993
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 8, 2001 at 08:20 AM, in macOS
Not at all. REALbasic is indeed compiled to run... 638 Views / 28 Replies  
Not at all. REALbasic is indeed compiled to run on both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, and in order to do that it does *not* use any Quartz 2D (formerly known as Core Graphics Rendering) routines directly,...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 7, 2001 at 10:35 AM, in macOS
I believe Carbon applications written to... 969 Views / 73 Replies  
I believe Carbon applications written to QuickDraw will continue to use Mac OS X's port of the QuickDraw API, which is particularly noticeable in the text handling. Quartz is, at a lower level,...
Posted by Marshall, on Jun 6, 2001 at 06:54 AM, in macOS
Try adding the Default Gateway and DNS settings... 508 Views / 6 Replies  
Try adding the Default Gateway and DNS settings (I'm assuming your internet server is Win98 SE with Internet Connection Sharing turned on?).

I don't know how familiar you are with 95/98, but you...
Posted by Marshall, on May 31, 2001 at 07:09 AM, in macOS
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