The name's McColl, Ian McColl, licence to email.
> > Works fine for me, can't understand what all the fuss is about.
> > Yes, but it's not /that/ hard to solve - you simply need to download the
> > latest V3 from ftp.vapor.com, using mFTP or the older AmFTP, and it will
> > work! No need to 'reinstall' etc.
> I am appalled at the problems with V3. If I had bought it locally, it
> would already have gone straight back to the shop for a refund.
> If I pay the price asked - then I expect the product to work.
You do, as long as everything at your end is totally compatible. I
agree that V and WebVision not working is a bad fault, but this is a
problem caused by the duplicators. I'm not going to say much in case
Chris has his own way of explaining things here.
> The Octopus bar seems to be a prime problem:
> Can't drag it off the centre of screen.
That's not a problem. By default it is set as non-draggable. Just run
the prefs program and change it to draggable. You can do this directly
through WB/CLI due to your problems below...
> Right click for settings and my A1200 resets.
> Click on Voyager and the screen freezes. Even cursor won't move.
> Reset is only option.
I've never heard anyone else with problems like this. Admittedly this
is only an educated guess, but I'd say it's 99% likely to be either
some patch/hack you've installed, or a problem with the MUI libs. If
it's a hack then you can't blame Active, and if it's a MUI thing then
although it's a pain to sort, they do have the disadvantage of trying
not to interfere with other things you've installed. That's the
problem with using third party software for your own. I'm sure NC3
could just delete all your MUI libs, install its own ones which are
guaranteed compatible and you'd have no problems. But you probably
wouldn't be happy with this either.
> I got V3 to run by directly clicking on it in the NC3 drawer.
So it's likely to be a problem with the Octopus installation. Have you
tried running it from the old NC2 bar?
> In NC2 I had the contents of pages as large as possible - the logo
> in the top right corner waste a lot of space, can it be got rid of?
Yep. Go to general settings, select the "General" 'tab', and select
Hide for the Transfer animation.
> Javascript was what attracted me to NC3. Tried it on
> www.expedia.com - click on "hotel reservations" and an error message
> appears -"Javascript execution error on line 8 - function expected".
You've probably heard this umpteen times before, but javascript is one
of those things that companies like Microsoft like to pretend are
their own by making lots of features which are non-standard. It's
going to be almost impossible to get all the features working. You can
just hide the warning boxes using the General settings menu. I often
find I don't notice anything not working, and then when I look at the
logfile I see a big list of errors which I hadn't seen while browsing.
As long as a site doesn't /rely/ on javascript, it shouldn't be a
problem.
> If this has not been debugged, are we faced with a long series of
> updates that are only partly bug fixed?
I assume the bugfix email address is still open? You can send logs of
errors here to be sorted. I believe Olli will start concentrating
mostly on JS at some point, so we shouldn't need many updates.
> I have used c64 thro to A1200. I used to be able to write in
> machine code for the C64, but the problems with NC3 are beyond me.
> Is the only option to go Windoze?
I'll assume you're joking here. The only real problems I can see,
which you yourself could fix (according to your C64-->A1200 thing) are
the MUI problems.
> Also, the new version of MDII - it will not access my Contact
> Manager,
Something odd here as well, actually. CM opens, but my old users
aren't present. Hmm.
> and it picked up on a backup (.old) copy of the email
> database instead of the current one that I was using.
Well the installer does let you choose where you've got your messages
to import so I don't see how. I certainly can't see how it would
bother with files named .old - it would have to rename name them as
well.
> Help? Or do I ask for a refund? Ian.
Well I supposed you could, but it'd be cheaper to spend a bit of time
sorting the problems than buying a PC...
Paul C, confusing himself with Chris Wiles :)
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A rich thief.
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