I am making a Windows Installer using InstallShield X.
I am not able to add single value to Registry.
Like in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order
ProviderOrder key Value is WDNP32,Mvfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation,WebClient , now to this i want to append a comma seperated value like ,Test.
But i am not able to do that.
If I am making entry with whole value during uninstallation it removes windows entry and my system shows blue screen during restart.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
Since you don't say what you've put in for the value, I'm assuming you've not already tried [~],AppendThis. That might work (per the Value column of the Registry Table). Although in general, I shy away from modifying anything under CurrentControlSet directly.
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Assume you created some, eg 3, custom filters saved with filter names A,B, C, using Control-M's ISPF client in zOS (mainframe). Using such custom filters, you can easily switch between the list of jobs to be shown in the Active Jobs File, using primary ISPF commands like:
s A
s B
s C
If you only have like 3 such filters, and with names like A, B or C, it's a piece of cake to remember them all. However, if you have like a dozen of names, each with up to (say) a length 8 (XYZ10000, PQR123, etc), it's pretty much impossible to remember them all.
So is it somehow possible to bring up a list of all available filters (similar to an ISPF memberlist)? If not, where to go find all such filters that are defined, maybe in some ISPF profile dataset member?
If you want to see a list of filters all you need to do is type SHOW ? in the command line and it will bring up a list of save filters.
Put an S beside the one you want to select it.
Rather accidentally, I discovered the correct (and complete) answer to my own question ...
The previous answer is a good start, i.e. you need to issue command show ? (or just s ?). But in my case just typing show ? still didn't show the filters (like A, B or C as in my question). The additional clue to really get it to work, at least in my case, is that I also have to press the PF8-key to perform a page down in that pop-up window (shown after first typing show ?). And without pressing the PF8-key, I only see a list of (vanilla) filters that come with Control-M.
I'm currently using Revit Python Shell 2017 and I'd like let's say to make "communicate" different canned commands.
For instance, let's say I load a house model, and I create some additional walls on it, via a canned command that I would have previously created. While creating these walls, I could store all these new walls IDs in a variable, as a list.
Now, if I want to delete exactly these walls afterwards, I'd like to identify them using their IDs that I stored in the list, then delete them.
If I was in an interactive Python Shell session, well the "IDs list" variable would still be accessible (as long as I don't close the shell), and I could just retrieve the IDs from it, then delete the walls.
But what if I'm using canned commands? The first command would be "create the walls", and the 2nd would be "erase these walls". But that "IDs list" variable doesn't exists in the second canned command environment, so that I can't use it to erase the walls.
So, what would be the approach? Of course in this example I could identify the walls in the second command using a different methodology, such as asking the user to select them etc etc.. But the idea I'm going for would be the store that list from the first command "somewhere in Revit", and retrieve it when calling the second command.
I could write the list to an external text file, and read the file in the second command... but is there a cleaner way?
I'm sorry for the beginner's language used here, and hope that my question is clear enough! And that somebody can help ;)
Best,
Arnaud.
This is a great question Arnaud, in the past Ive done the following:
Create a text project parameter, and populate it with XML (yes you can have line breaks in a text parameter). This is similar to what Ideate BIM Link does (check the project parameters of any project that has used BIM Link). This is a long-winded method for keeping data persistent between commands.
The second part (saving a walls IDs) is more difficult I think, as I understand it every time you open a project the IDs are reassigned. You could test this to see if its the case?
Another method could involve using an External command that lingers after you have finished selecting walls. Could you go into a little more info about what youre wanting to achieve?
So,
Just for leaving a trace, I solved this using pyRevit and its ability to store data in temporary files (here, look for "Using Temporary Files").
So basically I am trying to rewrite a bash script which uses dialog --radiolist for choosing locale,keyboard,time. At the moment the tag is a number that corresponds to a local (I created a hashtable for it). But because I have, and want to keep it that way for now, around 100 locales it gets messy at the end.
What I wanna achieve is to make it more compact without having to add or add an artificial, non visible item that might easily translate to its tag. (as a tag I would put the locale name)
What I have tried:
1. Noobish thing but I though that there might be some way to include empty like NULL in ASCII or 0, blank space etc, but dialog would always make it visible.
2. Exclude the item at all and finish on on/off but instead on/off takes place of item (not surprisingly if options are as follow --radiolist text height width list-height [ tag item status ])
3. Instead of letting the dialog on exit write to the output the name of the chosen locale I created an output statement myself.
I had red a lot about dialog and whiptail(http://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog, http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php) but always end up with having to add tag and an item. Would appreciate any suggestions and maybe some info if there is easily plug-gable dialog/whiptail compatible libs.
Thank You in advance
Perhaps you overlooked the --no-tags option (see manpage):
--no-tags
Some widgets (checklist, inputmenu, radiolist, menu) display a
list with two columns (a "tag" and "description"). The tag is
useful for scripting, but may not help the user. The --no-tags
option (from Xdialog) may be used to suppress the column of tags
from the display. Unlike the --no-items option, this does not
affect the data which is read from the script.
The question mentions whiptail and consistency, which could refer to consistency across dialog and whiptail. There is none, since
whiptail provides fewer options than dialog (inevitably, there will be differences, since there is no one-one mapping possible)
consistency as such between the two is done in dialog occasionally to help with compatibility (the reverse is not true).
I have a linux installation without X. When I launch a third-part application (i.e. gstreamer) it draws on a portion of the screen, let the users see through the external areas.
I want to "clear" the console so it appears black. Of course the clear command won't work because you still see the prompt.
Might you recommend any way to achieve this?
The environment variable which contains the output displayed by the prompt is named PS1. You can empty this variable when needed.
Don't forget to keep a 'backup' of the value in order to be able to set it back to its old value
Here's something that's really irked me over the years. I've never used any software that, when importing data from a column-aligned text file, can figure out the column breaks in a correct manner.
Excel 2K3 and a lot of other Microsoft components that seem to share a common codebase (like the import options for SQL2K) attempt to figure out the column breaks for you. Unfortunately, they only look at the first n rows, and are often completely wrong.
OpenOffice.Org 3.1 has a import dialog almost exactly like Excel 2K3 but it doesn't even attempt to guess the column breaks for you. And the latest version of Numbers doesn't appear to handle column-aligned imports at all.
Obviously column-aligned data is undesirable for a number of reasons, but a lot of older software (particularly in-house software various companies have floating around) exports data in this format so I do need to handle it every so often. Surely, somewhere, SOME software imports it well without me coding an import utility myself or manually specifying where twelve zillion columns start and stop?
OSX, Windows, whatever. I'm open to suggestions. Ultimate goal is to get it into a SQL Server table, but simply getting it into a Excel/XML/tab-delimited/etc file in the meantime would be fine because it's easy enough to get into SQL Server from there.
I tend to normalize such data with awk -- perhaps generating a csv file -- before trying to import it into Excel.
See the awk user's manual.
I don't think there is a silver bullet for your request. I think the best you can hope for is to define your input format once and be able to reuse that format when you receive a file with the same format again.
As one poster mentioned you could use awk or, if .NET is more your thing, then you could use FileHelpers. It's an open source .NET library that does a good job reading and writing both Fixed length and delimited files. The downside is that you would be creating a .NET application to do the work (either inserting directly into a DB or perhaps creating an output file. On the plus side, once created, you could reuse the mapping classes again if you get the same file format.
Well obviously no software can be entirely correct in guessing the layout of a fixed column file, since there is no seperator (though variable width columns with higher maximum lengths will often produce enough space on the end to start guessing). For example the following could be anywhere from 1-9 columns (I have personally had to figure out some super packed fixed column layouts like this, only much longer)
135464876
647873159
345467575
If SQL Server is the ultimate destination, have you looked into the SQL Server import wizard?
Right click your database in Management Studio and select Tasks->Import Data. Proceed through and select "Flat File" as your data source. In the format dropdown change from Delimited to Fixed Width. On the left you can now use the Columns screen to draw the column seperators. There is also an advanced and preview screen.
Try out this demo (I was on development team):
Personator 4
Install, run the program, go to Tools | ASCII Conversion | Import from ASCII.
The import will be to DBF/FoxPro, but you can then export that file into one of the formats you mentioned.
The start/stop guesser uses a few statistical formulas to try to get the boundaries correct; you get to verify and/or correct with a graphical editor after analysis.
If you save your file as a text file and attempt to open
it in Microsoft Excel 2007 and select "Fixed Width",
Excel will "guess" where the breaks occur (based on
whitespace), but you can actually change where the column
field breaks will occur. The application has vertical lines that
can be moved left or right X characters. Excel
will "guess" where the breaks occur, but if it
guesses incorrectly, you can still change where the field breaks
should occur. On STEP 2 of the wizard, just move the
vertical lines to the left or right if you need
to change Excel's guesses as to where the field breaks
are. You can see which character number the field
break occurs in before importing.