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Re: Is there a way to query ALL macro-params in one?

Dennis Bareis — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:20:28 GMT

... Some sections which may help: - http://dennisbareis.com/ppwizard/macrosexpandallunusedparms.htm -

Re: Not seeing colors

Dennis Bareis — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:15:32 GMT

... Just zip and send it directly to me. Maybe I'll see something... -- Dennis Bareis (dbareis@...): http://dennisbareis.com Freeware Windows

Re: dependson not working

Dennis Bareis — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:13:36 GMT

Hi, ... Please send me the output generated with the /debug switch. Thanks -- Dennis Bareis (dbareis@...): http://dennisbareis.com Freeware

Re: dependson not working

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:55:42 GMT

I just found that /DependsOnComplete:Yes (BTW: not in the index of helpfile, but found through search) fixes the problem. Dependencies are now handled! :-)

Re: dependson not working

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:19:06 GMT

I'm having a problem here, too, where dependsOn has no effect and no .dep-files were created during build. Also tried the update to 11.317 and saw no change in

Is there a way to query ALL macro-params in one?

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:35:11 GMT

Perhaps there is an internal variable which would hold the entire string that was passed to the right side of the macro when it was called? i.e. <$MyMacro and

Re: Not seeing colors

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:20:47 GMT

... I'm afraid not. The entire log is probably too long to post here in a msg, but it showed that /colors:yes was recognized and I saw no errs abt colors...

Re: Not seeing colors

Dennis Bareis — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:45:32 GMT

Hi, ... Try "/debug" on command line and see if that shows up anything... Bye Dennis

Re: Not seeing colors

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:40:43 GMT

Sorry if my initial msg was not clear, I'm glad we sorted that out. However, CTEXT itself is working and prints colourful. PPWs output is just white on black,

Re: Drawing a frame around my text

Michael — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:31:23 GMT

Thanks very much - got it working now! :-) I really have a few lessons to learn, thanks for bearing with me ;-)

Re: Not seeing colors

Dennis Bareis — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:31:00 GMT

... That would have been handy information to know up front :-) Its not documented but ANSI is only used where "CTEXT.EXE" would not work or "CTEXT.EXE" not

Re: Drawing a frame around my text

Dennis Bareis — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:23:10 GMT

Hi, ... This could be improved upon but i works: #DefineRexx '_BoxMe_' @@Text = '{$#1}'; @@LNG = length(@@Text); @@NL = '<' || '?NewLine>'; @@BOXED =

Re: Not seeing colors

Michael — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:57:09 GMT

Yes, Dennis, it is possible to disable ANSI - but I thought that I understood PPW would use colors for its output (when console:yes is set). So, in my batch

Drawing a frame around my text

Michael — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:50:16 GMT

Hi, I would like to create nice titles in some txt-files I'm creating, for examples in frame of "*". But we need to cope with macros that when expanded have an

Re: Not seeing colors

Dennis Bareis — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:00:19 GMT

Hi, ... I assume you meant "/Color:yes", if its not working you should turn it off, it will be faster. PPWIZARD doesn't use ANSI and whatever the program is