Category: WX
Today we are going to discuss a feature that technically isn't part of the FileManager classes but demonstrates how you can tweak and extend them without change their core functionality, all thanks to the magic of OOP. Often on browses I like to include a generic search edit control that search multiple fields, so the … Continue reading Extending the FileManager Classes for a Generic Search on Browses
For every table in your Analysis you need 2 classes a record class (a single record) and a Manager class (which manages the actual file access and hold a collection of records). Today we are going to talk about creating the Manager Class, which is relatively painless thanks to a couple of code bricks we … Continue reading FileManager Primer – Creating the Manager Class
Now this isn't the next MMA fight everyone will be talking about but it is important for us WX developers all the same. We have been have some conversation about JSON, deserialization, Variants and native JSON variables over on our facebook group this week. And I just happened on an example day that I felt … Continue reading JSON vs Variant
I wrote about this back in November of 2020 in this post, so be sure to read that post for for all the background information. Today I found yet another way this managed to introduce bugs into your application. Read on for the details This time all the code for my report is done in … Continue reading More Fun with Export to PDF from Print Preview rerunning the report
Publishing to the App stores is always an adventure. They seem to change the requirements and interface on an almost daily basis. Add to that the extra requirements needed to compile the XCODE for the Apple App store and you start feeling like your juggling flaming chainsaws, while riding a unicycle across a tightrope. Bill … Continue reading Publishing an WINDEV Mobile app to the App Store
We recently had a WEBDEV project that is being used in an extremely security conscious industry. And they flagged our app because it was using JQuery 3.1.1, which has a few know vulnerabilities. It should be noted these vulnerabilities are low to medium risk and mitigated other ways via server configuration etc., but the client … Continue reading Fixing the outdated JQuery Library
Another one from my stash of Blog post I need to make, resurfaced today, so it seemed like a good time to Get-R-Done. If you take a look at the online help for the iPreview function you will find this little tidbit at the bottom of the page So what exactly does that mean? Well … Continue reading Export to PDF from Print Preview Reruns Report
I have written about the JQuery UI date picker before, be sure to check out that article if you haven't seen it. Today we got a request from a client that need the ability to allow the user to clear the date. So I had to put on my thinking (googling) cap and come up … Continue reading More fun with the JQuery UI Date Picker
We have been battling an issue for several months, it seems to only effect Amazon AWS servers running Windows Server 2019. We have had 5 servers exhibit this behavior. So what exactly is the issue? Suddenly the server will no longer be able to establish outgoing connections. Websites, etc. all still function fine, unless you … Continue reading AWS 2019 Server WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service Errors
I shared this in Dallas, with my Webservices presentation, but hadn't gotten around to making a blog post. Today we had someone that was running into this problem. What exactly is the issue? When you do a REST request and include a User and Password in the standard parameters that is turned into a Basic … Continue reading Apache Strips off Basic Authorization Header
