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Today I ran into a problem with a process on a SQL table. It was using a range limit and filters so it was only processing a subset of the data. However, the progress bar of course was stuck with the entire data set so it would go up to about 2% and be done. I have a procedure that I can pass some parameters to count the records in a table for a given filter so I knew exactly how many records the process was going to process. But I got stuck on how to reset the high limit for the progress bar. After some snooping around I found a property that I could set and everything worked like a charm.

 !! First get the number of records.  
 !! SQ is a global equate:     SQ Equate('<39>')

 Loc:Recs = CountSQLRecords(Name(MyFile),|
            'Parent_ID = ' & SQ & Loc:Parent_ID & SQ)
 ThisProcess.RecordsToProcess = Loc:Recs

Put this code into priority 8550 or higher in the ThisWindow.Init method in the process procedure and the progress bar will now go smoothly from 0% to 100%

If someone has a method to call for this, please comment on this post. I could not find any method that worked, compiled and ran! Setting the RecordsToProcess property seems to have no bad effects.

Arnor Baldvinsson

Few days ago we received an email from a guy named "Tony" with the email address of tony@xgymzc.hk.cn. I have since received two emails from this same person, the last one with an email address of tony@skasia.hk.cn.

The first email went like this:

Dear Manager,

We are SK net service company ltd, the registration organization of trademark,internet brand and domain name in Asia.

On 15th,November.We have already received Juda Asia Industry Limited want to register (icetips ) internet brand and related domain names. After our department checked,you are the original owner of the brand,you have the first protection right. please let me know whether your company authorize JUDA to register them or regsiter them by yourself. If we can not receive your reply within a period,we will think that your company given up them and we will help Juda Asia Industry Limited to register them. Looking forward your response! Best Regards, Tony

SK Asia
Tel: 00852-3071 7712
Fax:00852-3071 7730
www.skasia.hk.cn

Today I received the third email and decided to look into this as this was sounding like a scam to me. After some snooping around I found this blog site with comments from over a hundred people about this scam. Basically they try to solicit people to register domain names with them, indicating that they have a client that is going to register your domain name with one of the East Asian domains, such as .cn, .tw, .hk etc. Currently you can simply go to Godaddy.com and register them, although the price can be quite high, for example the .tw domains are $39.99 a year.

I just thought I'd let my readers know about this so you know that this is a scam.

Arnor Baldvinsson