Hi
As a retired IT Manager, programmer and developer I would agree that
LTools would be a risk. Looking at his website, as far as I can tell,
nothing has been updated since Aug 2014 apart from one reference to a
patch to LTools in Aug 2015. That would suggest that he is no longer
doing any development.
That is because it is dependent on its developer being totally aware
of the internal structure of the Legacy database, in terms of the
underlying tables, the fields within them and the way that they are
linked, along with any additional files that Legacy might create, and I
have never understood why they are not within the main database. That
structure is, of course, totally under the control of the Legacy
developers and presumably subject to copyright rules, until Legacy make
them publicly available.
Having said that, I have used M/S Access, on a duplicate copy of my
database, to view some of the fields and links in order to resolve some
very odd issues. Using LTools or Access to make changes to the data is
possible, so long as the user, and LTools developer, KNOWS exactly what
they are changing and why. There are very good reasons to do this type
of modification since there may be no functionality built into Legacy
capable of making changes to some of the data, especially with a need to
make changes generically across a subset of the data.
With time and effort I could generate an equivalent to LTools based
on the current version of Legacy, but then that would need ongoing
support as Legacy modifies the system, and would probably be in breach
of copyright. As such, a program like that should be developed by the
Legacy developers, and not by its users, and should be built into the
main Legacy program.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Sherry H" <[email protected]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 25/06/2018 17:26:28
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Web pages - fonts
LTools is not a Legacy sponsored program - Dennis was totally on his
own with it.
When Legacy added Shared Events, Dennis had difficulty updating LTools
to work with all the changes in the program. There are even larger
data schema changes in v9.
Some parts of LTools work fine with Legacy v8 and 9. On the LTools
menu, there's a link to compatibility with v8
http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/legacy-v8-compatibility/ Tidy
HTML tool will work since it doesn't access the database itself.
He also has a warning on his site
"This toolkit’s intended audience is the “advanced” Legacy user.
Casual Legacy users who are not comfortable with computers in general
are encouraged NOT to use LTools. In addition, users who are NOT
familiar with general backup and recovery strategies AND Legacy’s
Backup/Restore functionality should not attempt to use LTools."
http://zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/what-is-ltools/
Sherry
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Gordon Small <[email protected]>
wrote:
I haven't been active on this form for a number of years but I do read
some
of the posts from time to time to keep up with what's new. I do
however miss
a lot of the info that comes across. So, if my comments have already
been
addressed I apologize.
Regarding website manipulation: There is a program that allows someone
with
a not too in depth knowledge of html and css to create better looking
websites from the pages generated by the Legacy program. Dennis
Kowallek
created the program utility LTools a few years back when Legacy was on
version 7, I believe, and it continues to work on version 8. I,ve
purchased
Legacy version 9 but I haven't upgraded my S/W yet because I'm not
sure if
Legacy 9 works with the last version of LTools. I just haven't had the
need
to update or investigate the compatibility. However, Dennis closed
down his
Ltools business and started offering LTools free and I have a copy of
his
last release.
I've not seen any comments on this forum about LTools in a long time
and
don't know if it works with Legacy 9 but it looks like it can still be
downloaded at http://www.zippersoftware.com/wp/ltools/download-ltools
(if you care to try it)
Or maybe someone here has tried it and can chime in.
My latest site was created a few years ago. Check this example Legacy
created page... http://www.glsmall.com/10.htm (Colors and fonts were
done
with LTools. Other html things were done entirely with html
capabilities
inside Legacy.
-G
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