Bill, I feel like your talking to me ...

Truly sorry I couldn't make it.

Steve (in Memphis)

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Downall
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 6:47am 06:47
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: RBase Indianapolis training

Bill N is so right. These sessions are invaluable for a number of reasons. This 
weekend the SAT in Indianapolis enabled us all to: 
* Really understand the new stuff (that seems to be added weekly).
* Be reminded of that old new stuff (that we learned about a year ago, but 
never got around to putting into an application).
* Share insights with other developers.
* Work out designs for cool new features or slick uses of existing features 
with Razzak and 7 clever developers.
* Be entertained by political "point/counterpoint" between Razzak and George. 
(They were as good as Jane Curtin and Dan Akroyd on the old SNL, although 
George would never have called Razzak an "ignorant slut.")
Just a few of the highlights of this mini-marathon session for me were:
* The "on Keypress" EEP settings that you will now find in variable edit and db 
edit controls in forms. Wow. 
* Getproperty EVERYTHING, and the point of it all while working with 
dynamically changing forms.
* A developer's ability to check a check box to suppress pop-up error messages
* The GROUPINDEX property, that lets speedbuttons behave like radio buttons, 
among other things.
* The listview TOPITEM property, that allows smooth, unconfusing navigation for 
your users when controls are refreshed.
* The secret code numbers (which aren't secret at all, they've been in an FTE 
article for years) for what kind of an EEP each EEP is, and the ability to 
dynamically change the content of EEPS.
* R> prompt/command line OUTPUT directly to PDFs or Encrypted text files
* The Samosas, Seekh Kabaab, Panir Pakora, Tikka Masala, and #56 at the India 
Garden.
Please sign up for the next SAT in a city you can get to easily. The 
productivity burst you enjoy in even the first few days afterward will more 
than make up for the costs of attending.

Bill
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Bill Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to thank Razzak for his enthusiasm and his examples at the recent 
Indianapolis training session.  Between Razzak and input from the other 
participants, I found a number of possible features to incorporate into our 
database to make it easier for the user to find information and make it easier 
to maintain with menu options that can perform multiple tasks.  I even found a 
few "older" features that finally rang a bell for me when I saw them again 
during the training.  Bill Downall's efforts with organizing the event and 
input from George, Mike, Paul, Tom and Doug made the training useful with some 
lively interaction.
 
Thanks again to all of the attendees.
 
Bill
 
 


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