Trouble installing Uru: Complete Chronicles

Trying to install Uru, I know, it’s about 5 years old but I just got it mostly because I just started using a PC and Uru was never released for Mac, I constantly received this error:

Feature: DefaultFeature
Component: AGameFiles
File: D:\data2.cab
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

None of the solutions online were of any help so I simply tried to copy the files to my hard drive and install them from there. The only problem is data2.cab couldn’t be read on any of my PCs (2 laptops and one desktop). I was able to copy the file from the CD to my Mac’s hard drive so I just shared it over to the PC and installed it from the hard drive. It worked so I suppose if anyone needs a copy of data2.cab and don’t have a Mac, just drop me a line and I’ll put it online somewhere for download.

On an interesting side note I was also able to get Uru to run on my Vista 64-bit machine by bypassing the “Play URU - Complete Chronicles” and instead starting it up using the UruExplorer application.

Posted in Random by Mark (08Mar08 @ 2103)

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Firing a click event using the enter key

This one had me stumped for a few minutes. I had a text box that would post to a google search. Entering text in and hitting the enter key would just post back to the page and have no effect.

Hmm. Frustrating. I don’t expect everyone to type in their search criteria and grab the mouse to click the tiny little button so here’s what you have to do.
<asp:Panel ID="searchPanel" DefaultButton="topSearchButton" runat="server">
<asp:TextBox ID="topSearch" columns="21" CssClass ="formbox" runat="server" EnableViewState="False" />
<asp:ImageButton ID="topSearchButton" ImageURL="images/bg/buttonGoHome.gif" OnClick="topSearchButton_Click" CSSClass="buttonGoHome" AlternateText="Submit" runat="server" />
</asp:Panel>
OnClick event:
protected void topSearchButton_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
{ Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com/u/xxx?domains=www.xxx.edu&sitesearch=www.xxx.edu&q=" + topSearch.Text);
}
The DefaultButton attribute names the ID of the button you want to fire. The only issue is it doesn’t work on a text box (or any other form item) it only works on a Panel. I suppose it makes sense because you usually don’t just have one form field and a button, it’s usually many text boxes, any of which can fire the click event using the enter key.

I figured there was no point in having ViewState on a text box that posts to another site so EnableViewState should be set to False in this case.

Posted in ASP.NET by Mark (15Jan08 @ 2311)

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FPDF.asp carriage return / line feed in MultiCell

Recently I was given the task of printing address labels from a database using Avery 5160 labels. These labels are 3 columns of 10 rows. 2.625″ x 1″ (66.6mm x 25.4mm).

I was having trouble with carriage returns. First problem is that the ASP version of FPDF doesn’t seem to recognize the \n line feed. It was easy enough to replace it with Chr(10) but I suppose I had a misconception of how FPDF handles line feeds in that it used the entire height of the multicell height for every line of text.

At first I used this incorrect code to test (notice the carriage return has no effect):<%@language=vbscript%>
<!--#include file="fpdf.asp"-->
<%
Dim i,pdf
Set pdf=CreateJsObject("FPDF")
pdf.CreatePDF "P","cm","Letter"
pdf.SetPath("fpdf/")
pdf.SetTopMargin(1.27)
pdf.SetLeftMargin(.42)
pdf.SetRightMargin(.42)
pdf.Open()
pdf.AddPage()
pdf.SetFont "Times","",9
for i=0 to 40
labelText = "Client #" & i & Chr(13) & "<--carriage return there address" & Chr(10) & "City, State Zip "
pdf.MultiCell 6.66,2.54,labelText,1,L
Next
pdf.Close()
pdf.Output()
Set pdf = Nothing
%>
with the results shown below:

Then after googling a bit I found a php version of a script for creating a PDF for Avery 5160 labels and ported it to ASP:<%@language=vbscript%>
<!--#include file="fpdf.asp"-->
<%
Set pdf = CreateJsObject("FPDF")
pdf.CreatePDF "P","mm","Letter"
pdf.Open()
pdf.AddPage()
pdf.SetFont "Arial","B",10
pdf.SetMargins 0,0
pdf.SetAutoPageBreak(0)
x = 0
y = 0
' instead of for next call names and addresses from database
for a = 1 to 40
' Make label text
LabelText = "Contact Name" & a & chr(10) & "Entire Company Name" & a & chr(10) & "1313 Mockingbird Lane" & chr(10) & "Chicago, IL 60617"
LeftMargin = 4.2
TopMargin = 12.7
LabelWidth = 66.6
LabelHeight = 25.45
' Create Co-Ords of Upper left of the Label
AbsX = LeftMargin + ((LabelWidth + 4.22) * x)
AbsY = TopMargin + (LabelHeight * y)
pdf.SetXY AbsX+3,AbsY+3
pdf.MultiCell LabelWidth-8,4.5,LabelText,0,L
y=y+1
if (y=10) then
x=x+1
y = 0
if (x = 3) then
x = 0
y = 0
pdf.AddPage()
end if
end if
next
pdf.Output()
Set pdf = Nothing
%>
Just change the for-next loop to a database call and you’re in business.

I find FPDF extremely useful and am sure to use it in the future.

Posted in Classic ASP by Mark (14Dec07 @ 2016)

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Man Illegally Arrested for Refusing Bag Search

Today was an eventful day. I drove to Cleveland, reunited with my father’s side of the family and got arrested. More on that arrested part to come.

For the labor day weekend my father decided to host a small family reunion. My sister flew in from California and I drove in from Pittsburgh to visit my father, his wife and my little brother and sister. Shortly after arriving we packed the whole family into my father’s Buick and headed off to the grocery store to buy some ingredients to make monkeybread. (It’s my little sister’s birthday today and that was her cute/bizare birthday request.)

Next to the grocery store was a Circuit City. (The Brooklyn, Ohio Circuit City to be exact.) Having forgotten that it was my sister’s birthday I decided to run in and buy her a last minute gift. I settled on Disney’s “Cars” game for the Nintendo Wii. I also needed to purchase a Power Squid surge protector which I paid for separately with my business credit card. As I headed towards the exit doors I passed a gentleman whose name I would later learn is Santura. As I began to walk towards the doors Santura said, “Sir, I need to examine your receipt.” I responded by continuing to walk past him while saying, “No thank you.” …

Please see the rest of the story on Michael Righi’s blog: Papers Please: Arrested At Circuit City

This is just the beginning of the story which escalates to him being illegally detained by the store manager and then illegally arrested by a police officer for refusing to show a driver’s license even though he was not driving a car.

I most likely would have donated to his cause had he not involved the ACLU and promised to give them any remainder. I’ll not be party to their Fabianistic tactics and stand against their communist background.

I can’t blame Michael Righi for getting involved with the ACLU though, he is, after all, from Pittsburgh.

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Posted in Random by Mark (09Sep07 @ 2012)

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