I've never said that I have a high regard for my own programming skills because I simply don't have any commercial programming skills. I do find it amazing that the Legacy programmers can allow the creation of such large databases with multiple hooks yet the programming remains robust and doesn't crash. I do see flaws in specific programming presentation and user interfaces rather than flaws in people.
Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Ron Bernier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multiple errors Brian, I wouldn't say you are bad mouthing Legacy, but you do have a history of "constructive criticism" about how the application has been programmed. You seem to have great delight in pointing out all of the perceived flaws in how the programmers have written the code. Just curious, you seem to have such high regard for your own programming skills, why is it you haven't created the perfectly coded genealogy program? Regards, Ron Bernier On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote: > I think these portions of this thread should be renamed as to why Legacy > continues to need to be installed into a "non-standard" location. I'm just > trying to bring the discussions around to be Legacy specific instead of > merely discussion OS restrictions. Dennis' web-site link about "file and > registry virtualizations" is interesting (well, maybe not to many Legacy > users but to some of us propeller-heads) as well are the comments posted on > that web site. But what I find most interesting of all are these things: > 1. The last lines of the opening paragraph says: "This technology is > intended to make deployments of Vista less dependent on waiting for vendors > to release new versions of their software that work with LUA. It isn’t > designed to be used forever: in fact, Microsoft hopes to deprecate the > virtualization feature in the next version of Windows after Windows Vista. > The thought is that by that time, vendors and customers should have > applications that work correctly in the low rights environment. > 2. That web page was posted Dec 19 2005. > 3. The fictitious program example on the web page was called > "PoorlyBehavedApp". > > So Microsoft has given fair warning to vendors to release new versions. It is > now well over 4 years later and Legacy v7 is still using the same default > install folder as Legacy v2. > > OK, before anyone says/thinks that I am bad-mouthing the Legacy program and I > should go elsewhere, these are intended to be constructive comments and > criticism. I still think Legacy is the best consumer genealogy program > available. I've always told the support personnel that I'll be Legacy's > biggest supporter and probably the biggest critic at the same time. But as > Sherry stated a few days ago, the programmers are usually tight-lipped about > what features they are working are. I suppose that is to avoid any > "vaporware" or to avoid being tied to any specific release date too far in > advance. I guess we'll all just have to wait and see what is behind door #2, > aka Legacy v8. > > Brian in CA > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis M. Kowallek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 10:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multiple errors > > On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:11:48 -0800, "Brian L. Lightfoot" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>That's an interesting question/response. Since Boswell is running Win7 >>64-bit, would one expect Legacy to *finally* start writing application data >>files to C:\users\. It would be nice but I'm betting that Legacy v7 has no >>idea what OS is controlling it and all data is written into their own >>installation folder, data such as the .USR files. > > For anyone who wonders what we are talking about, here is a decent > explanation of file and registry virtualization under Vista (and I > presume Win7). > > http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/jerry/archive/2005/12/19/86.aspx > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek (LTools) > http://zippersoftware.com/ltools > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
