WebFocus AutoPrompt sometimes hides scroll results in IE

Problem

There is an issue in IE ~ webfocus auto prompt facility: 
when report results are wider than horizontal~ 
vertical area of “body” view area -- the results 
lower
IFrame scroll bars are overlaid ~ hidden
(see
example below).


Resolution

Comment out “body” related css on the webserver
for file:

E:\ibi\WebFocus76\ibi_html\javaassist\ibi\html\describe\autoprompt_top.css
EXAMPLE before ~ after fix


 

Example of Fix



How To use IE to dynamically change ~ test CSS:

To dynamically access the CSS stylesheets in a page go 'Tools/Developer Tools' - then go to the 'CSS tab'.

The facility:

-Identifies which style sheets are in effect.

-Allows toggle of a particular rule on / off to  see results real time.

WebFocus ~ Quicklinks ~ Object Explorer "undock"

If you want more real estate for your DevStudio -- Quicklinks and Object Explorer (in Report Painter) can undock from DevStudio.

WebFocus ~ preformat CSV output

For data whose appearance~use should be fixed as alphanumeric (vs. default interpretation as numeric) -- you can preformat it via an Excel function.  Use the T(value) or TEXT(value,format)...and a WebFocus DEFINE.

WebFocus ~ Use Message Viewer

In DevStudio -- there's a little drop-down next to the run command on the toolbar.  If you click it and check 'Message Viewer ON' -- you'll get a dual pane output in your browser.  Top pane is your results -- bottom pane are any dialogue manager ~ other messages.

Thinner TTS...

I hop around so many apps -- I thought I'd better come up with a better way to do TTS(at least for me).

I created an applet that I can access from my system tray -- whatever text may be highlighted in another app --if  I right-click this from system tray and 'play' the text is read back via SAPI.

If you'd like to try --download and follow these instructions:

1) Download TTSAnyAppTray_SE.exe to Desktop or Documents folder:
    http://►.ttsanyapp.operaunite.com/file_sharing_5/

2) Run TTSAnyAppTray_SE.exe to extract the software
    (must be done as Administrator).   This creates a folder
    called MyItzyBits under same folder as downloaded to in step 1.

3) Double click ..\MyItzyBits\TTSAnyAppTray.exe

4) Highlight some text in most any application

5) Click the '►' icon in your system tray and 'Play' from that
    context menu.

TTSAnyAppTray.exe has additional options:
ReadBrackets ~ check to read numeric footnote, e.g., [1] - default behavior is to not read these type items.
ReadParens ~ check to read numerics found inside parens, e.g., Robert Louis Stevenson(1850-1898) default behavior is to not read these type items.
Phonetics ~ click to open a window which stores ~ saves a list of phonetics "swaps", for example "WAR I=WAR ONE, etc.


Contains:
ProcessQuit.exe, TTSAnyAppTray.exe, TTSAnyApp.exe

Creative Commons License
TTSAnyAppTray by Michael T. Bee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://michaeltbeeitprof.blogspot.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at mailto:michael.t.bee.itprof@gmail.com.

Of course, a truly thinner TTS would be a Kindle.  But, on our budget that may be a while.  Meanwhile...

Enhancements:
The phonetics are now "saveable".  Try changing "(default)"  to a specific name and then pressing OK.  If you then click the '...' -- you bring that file up and edit your own set of phonetics.  If you want to have multiple copies -- save as a different name.

Screen shot(s):












Note: If you want to download additional~updated phonetics files -- download to same directory as to which you downloaded software and extracted (step 2)

'All monitors' option in LogMeIn...















This is useful -- but, it is hard to _remember_:
1) On 'LogMeIn panel' at top - choose Options
2) Choose 'monitors'
3) Check '3. All monitors'
4) Zoom out a little -- then pin the LogMeIn
    panel at the top.

Now, both monitors are accessible by scrolling the bottom of the view window.

Hard to remember (for me) HTML Entities


NameDecimalHexDescriptionExample
………Horizontal ellipsis.
↵ ↵ ↵ Carriage return.
|Vertical bar|

AIR 2 / ActionScript Notes

Links:

http://www.aptana.org/studio/download

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/index.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/actionscript

http://docs.aptana.com/docs/index.php/HTML_Entities

...these are some things I want to do for some applications I have spinning around in my head (or have done, say, with HTA applications)...

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Display_a_Twitter_feed-14726.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Save_a_file_locally_with_Flash_Player_10-14426.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_How_do_I_know_when_the_browser_window_gets_or_lose-14527.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Filtering_an_XMLListCollection_using_Regular_Expre-13926.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Positioning_items_in_Flex_using_a_constraint_based-13928.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_How_to_embed_swf_file_containing_ActionScript_code-12871.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Controlling_the_UI_with_cascading_states_based_on-12666.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Run_time_loaded_icons-12667.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Embed_external_text_or_Javascript_in_an_Actionscri-12749.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_SMS_Texting_with_Flex_and_Air-12007.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Adding_version_control_to_Flex_applications-9503.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_How_to_share_test_data_between_TestCases_-6862.html

http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Named_Colors_In_Flex_Flash-2542.html

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