I would like to know that i have an excel file with 18 sheets and it should be opend with any other versions.
for example if i right click on the file and select open with open office the same is being opened. i would like to lock this.
not possible.
The user or OS decides which programs to invoke.
The best you can do is to obfuscate the data from being read, except with the correct program.
That's not strictly correct. You could create a macro that is tied to the Workbook_Open event that checks to see which version of Excel is being used (i.e. Application.Version). For example, you could try doing something like the following:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
If Int(Application.Version) <> 11 Then
Workbook.Saved = True
Workbook.Close
End If
End Sub
However, this won't work if users have macros disabled and I have no idea whether it would work on OpenOffice either. I do know that OpenOffice has a VBA equivalent, but don't know enough about the object models to say whether an Excel macro will behave the exact same way in OpenOffice.
I suspect that the best option is to password-protect your workbook and include a macro that checks to see which version is being used. Not a fool-proof approach but probably the closest you're going to get.
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My traditional workflow must be a little different to the PHPStorm default. I often work on multiple files at the same time and want to be able to save just one file when I've finished with it, without saving the others that I've modified.
I've managed to turn off the auto-save feature. Now, when I edit files I get stars on the ones I've edited and they stay like that until I hit 'save'. So far so good.
But when press CTRL-S to save, expecting it to save the one file I'm looking at so I can go back to the ones with asterisks to polish them off too, it also saves ALL the other files too.
I hope there's some way to change this behaviour or set up something to allow me to save just one file at a time!
Yes, you can .. but that still does not change a lot (e.g if you change your settings, or run/re-run something -- all files will be saved automatically anyway). Eventually (after few weeks or month of adaptation) you will get used to this behaviour and quite likely will love it (yes, this means changing working habits a bit, which is quite hard to do (requires time) for some people/in some cases).
Anyway ... to enable "save single file" functionality:
Settings | Keymap
On that screen, in search box type "save"
The action you are after is called "Other | Save Document"
Assign whatever shortcut you want.
P.S.
This action will NOT ask for confirmation (same behaviour as standard save does).
P.P.S.
This action is available since PhpStorm v7 ONLY.
I want my application to be able to set IE, Firefox, Chrome & Operas homepages when a button is pressed. I understand IEs homepage is set in the registry, which I understand how to change, but can anyone give me any help with the others? Thanks
Chrome stores the homepage in a file called 'Preferences'. On Windows XP, this is located at;
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application
Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
On Vista+, it's located at;
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
This file is JSON format, and so it can be opened and viewed as plain text. In order to change the homepage, you'd need to load the JSON from this file, and change the homepage field value. You may also need to change the homepage_changed field value in order for it to stick. Using something like SuperObject to change the field would be an easy solution (if I get time, I'll write up some example code later).
Firefox uses a pref.js file to store it's settings, and realistically, a way of changing this would be to load this file, find the something that's along the lines of;
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "[URL]");
...and edit it as appropriate before saving the file. This should be a simple task using some simple find-and-replace code. I'd strongly advise that you use a pos() function though, as it could be that the end-user has already got their own custom homepage set and so searching for a preset string (e.g. [URL]) may not work, and certainly wouldn't be reliable.
A quick search hasn't given me enough information about Opera to provide a solution, but I'll keep looking and respond if I do find such a way.
Note that none of these methods have been tested and are merely provided based upon some very quick research.
For years I've put my application data files in c:\MyCompany\MyDataFileFolder\App where 'App' is my application name. I made this choice in the early days of Wild-West-Windows when Microsoft seemed to keep changing its own mind (My Documents, Documents, Program Data etc). As I've learnt more about how to do things correctly, and as Windows has now 'settled down' and is more picky about permissions I'd like to move my files. Users have got used to where they are though, and what I'd really like to do is to implement something like Windows does with 'special folders' where there are several synonymous names, thus in my legacy folder I'd like to put something in (or change a folder to) an alias for the real location which will now be something descended from Program Data. This way, the files are in a good place with the correct permissions and if we run a utility expecting or modifying files in the 'old' place this gets changed transparently to the 'new' place (thus a simple shortcut wont work).
Is this possible? Is there are recognised technique for this? I'm using Delphi XE2.
What you are looking for is either a Symbolic Link or a Reparse Point.
I recently upgraded to Excel 2010. I was working on a spreadsheet and wrote some code and went to save it and I get this box that pops up. I'm not sure what to do.
From Office 2007 on, Excel has two different file types: XLSX and XLSM. The former is just data and formatting without macros or anything "dangerous." The latter allows macros and other programmatic functionality. The reason for the split is mainly security as each one has a distinct extension and icon to better inform the user on whether or not the file could potentially contain dangerous content.
In this instance, you need to click No, then in the Save As... options select "Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook." That will give you the full functionality of the original document.
What I do now with Outlook:
I receive email orders for products. I select a single or multiple emails in Outlook (a single order can have multiple emails associated with it) and then switch to my Delphi coded OrderManager program and click "Import". It uses Outlook's COM automation interface to read the text of each message, parses and processes each one.
The question is, can I do this using Thunderbird instead? Does Thunderbird have a COM interface? I must be googling the wrong keywords because I haven't found anything yet.
Btw, I do have a version of my OrderManager that just reads the emails directly from my email server using Indy, but for several reasons I'd like to try to read them from Firefox.
Any suggestions, links to docs, or code samples will be greatly appreciated!
Check this link out.
You could write a C or C++ wrapper around XPCOM and then use that wrapper within Delphi.
There is also an open source XPCOM wrapper written in Delphi. You might want to check that out as well. Thanks Stijn for pointing that out.
Hope it helps.
You could also parse Thunderbird's mailbox files yourself.
From %APPDATA%\Thunderbird\profiles.ini, read where the profile folder is located (if there's more than one profile, look through sections Profile0..Profilen for the one that has the value Default=1)
Each subfolder of the Mail and/or ImapMail subfolders of the profile folder represents an account (Mail contains POP accounts, ImapMail contains IMAP accounts);
Look through all files whose names don't end with .dat or .msf, and whose contents start with 'From ' (F, r, o, m, and a space). Those are the mailbox files.
Every line that starts with 'From ' indicates a new message. Use the X-Mozilla-Status header to figure out whether the message is still valid, or whether it's been marked for deletion. (You can use the CDO.Message COM object to parse the message for you, if you want).
You should recurse for each subfolder ending on '.sbd', since that will contain that mailbox's subfolders (E.g. Inbox.sbd will contain the mail folders under the Inbox).
Be wary of file locking issues, however.