A new maintenance version of DataEase is now available for download from www.dataeaseuk.com. Version 7.2.3.947 contains extensive bug fixing, and streamlining and memory performance issues addressed. New features added include the ability to suppress the “Confirm changes” message box. To view what is new in DataEase 7.2.3 go to http://dataeaseuk.com/blog/2318 and for a list of [...]

New facility: now you can run the changekey.exe from a menu option within DataEase (At the startup screen, select menu option: Help -> Change key); The special case of the Memo fields data lost after performing backup/restore; The special case of the Memo fields data lost after installing a form from one application into another; [...]

If you downloaded the software via the link that was sent to you in an email and have problems such as “a quick flash of the DOS screen and then the installation screen disappears and DataEase is not installed”, then, please do ONE of the following: 1)      Login using your registered username and password; 2)      [...]

DataEase 7.2 Operating Systems compliancy

What’s new in DataEase 7.2.3? “Confirm changes” message box now suppress able via Document Properties. Button F5 (“Clear Form”) action is changed; it acts in the same way, independent of the filtering mode. New styles now work in Table View. New font in query editor (Calibri) and a new command line argument to set the [...]

A new DataEase and NetPlus forum is now up and running. Click here to access it today! We will be gradually building it up with useful information and would like to enlist your help in our quest to make it a central repository of helpful DataEase and NetPlus topics. You can also access our ‘old [...]

A PDF File can be renamed after it is printed with a simple DQL. First of all create the following CDFs: 1) Function Name: IsFile CDF library name: osfunc.dll Return type: String Create 2 parameters : 1-Name: Path/File Name        Type: String 2-Name: Attributes to find      Type: Int 2) Function Name: [...]

The KeyStrokes function reads a string which itself consists of the keystrokes you wish to execute. The CDF description: Function Name: Keystrokes CDF Library Name: demacro.dll Return type: Int One Parameter: -Name: KeysString   -Type: String The button action should be set to [Execute CDF] and the argument (including the quotation marks) is: KeyStrokes(“_tab”) or, if [...]

f you have a field with type Date and has the following OML on the event “LostFocus” : if Data = blank then Data.value := current date . Data.show () . end the field “Data” will not display the current date if you go to it and press the “TAB” button. That is because all [...]

Simply you can export a number field so only the number values and not the commas for the thousands are exported, by defining a temp variable for the number field and assign the variable the value from this field, e.g: define temp “tNumberValue1″ number. for Form1 ; tNumberValue1 := Field 3 . list records Field [...]