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Determining the font size used by a std I/O application
V2.0 Determining the font size used by a std I/O application
Till Warweg
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In a std I/O application, output occurs to the current console. The font used for outputting text into the associated window is controlled by the system and can be changed via the console properties. The following function can be used to determine the size of the font set for the window...
How to use the win-acme client to request a SSL certificate and use it from the HttpEndpoint
V2.0 How to use the win-acme client to request a SSL certificate and use it from the HttpEndpoint
Andreas Herdt
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Background The HttpEndpoint can be bound to an SSL certificate but it must be available in the Windows Certificate Store. This howto article describes how to provide a certificate using the win-acme tool and the IIS web server and how to bind the HttpClient to it. On the Let's Encrypt homepage...
Configuring authentication in PostgreSQL 13 for usage with Xbase++
V2.0 Configuring authentication in PostgreSQL 13 for usage with Xbase++
Till Warweg
2 min read
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Background Starting with version 13 of PostgreSQL, the default authentication method was changed from MD5 to SCRAM. This authentication method is incompatible with the pqlib client dll used by the PostgreSQL Database Engine shipping with Xbase++ (status: build 1360). As a consequence, attempting...
Hash arrays in Xbase++
V2.0 Hash arrays in Xbase++
Jeffrey Wulf
1 min read
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Overview With associative arrays it is possible to address an element in the array not by its ordinal (numeric) but by name (character string). The Xbase++ datatype array does not support this possibility. However, objects of the class DataObject() semantically offer an identical usage, because...
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