When we advise clients on GUI, we always advise a divide and conquer
approach.
It is amazing just how small a percentage of a system actually needs to be
GUItized, once you have partitioned out the business rules, report and
(strange) user menus, admin facilities etc.
Use a regular report desig
I'm having a problem input converting a date derived from using the data
picker (DTPicker) component, the following code,
tmpRecordArray.Value(1, 1) = session.Iconv(DTPicker1.Value, "D4/")
returns a status of 1 (the string supplied is invalid).
When I display it using the message box (Msgbox DT
Dear Friends,
As previously announced, after about nine years of hosting what has
become the u2-users list, I have decided to pass the baton to a new
host. I plan to use the time to pursue some other writing projects.
One of these is to resume writing my column previously published in
Infocus
Hans,
I dont know anything about DTPicker, but your date seems to have the format
DD/MM/(European format). Therefore you should try to supply the format
"D4/E" (or simpler "DE") to your Iconv-function.
Maybe thats worth a try.
Thomas
- Original Message -
From: "Morawa, Hans" <[EMAIL
Well, let's see... the new car automatically unlocks all the doors when I
get in (my wife thinks the carjackers'll love that one), I have to stand on the
brake pedal to get it to start, the window decides for itself to go all the
way down when I just want it down a crack, and the turning radius
And it was YOU that bought it!
m coffee... need more..
Les :-)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 April 2004 11:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [OT] Re: GUI from Mv code Re: Crystal Reports
Well, let's see... the
And the mirror is designed to detach safely to avoid damage - except putting it back
after it's detached itself is one of the easiest ways to break it ...
Been there, done that, £30 repair bill coming up to fix my wife's mirror that I walked
into by mistake ...
And my daughter's car had that fa
Brian,
As a graphical programmer, I couldn't agree with you more. As an MV
programmer, I couldn't agree with you more. GUI has its place,
especially with infrequent users. Green screen has its place, especially
with heads-down users.
--
Sincerely,
Charles Barouch
www.Ke
Will and others,
Original point...
use them? That's the sticking point. (Will Johnson)
>
Yes the tools are out there, some of them are truly exceptional, and a few
have a short learning curve.
We have worked with Pete Schellenbach at Accuterm for many years and found
it be a rock-solid product
I believe I added this option years ago... try using DET.SUP or DET-SUPP.
At 06:29 PM 4/17/2004, you wrote:
In a message dated 4/17/2004 7:35:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> and had to watch the compiler meticulously display those line-by
> line asterisks during compiling.
Thomas,
That did the trick.
Thanks,
Hans
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Thomas Sprenger
Sent: Monday, 19 April 2004 5:41 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: Iconv Date Picker Issue
Hans,
I dont know anything about DTPicker,
Sounds a bit like the Coyote Web Server [ http://coyote.easyco.com/ ] This
functionality would be a great thing to add to the Maverick project.
At 07:41 AM 4/17/2004, you wrote:
That's my point. In one sense I see what Will means. There are a lot of U2
shops out there that are happy as can be w
Hello !
I'll got very strange thing with VLIST.
I have external program which crash with fault 11, so I use VLIST
and here is strange thig. Vlist give me information about length ,
object compilatr etc. but when try to list first line of code
crash with fault 11. Layer type is Unknown.
Universe
try re-compiling and cataloging the file.
Chris
Rados?aw Ryckowski wrote:
Hello !
I'll got very strange thing with VLIST.
I have external program which crash with fault 11, so I use VLIST
and here is strange thig. Vlist give me information about length ,
object compilatr etc. but when try to
>Rados³aw Ryckowski wrote:
>I have external program which crash with fault 11, so I use VLIST
>and here is strange thig. Vlist give me information about length ,
>object compilatr etc. but when try to list first line of code
>crash with fault 11. Layer type is Unknown.
>Universe verison is 9.6.1
Having a strange problem at a client site.
There sysadmins upgraded the server running Universe from NT4 to Windows
2003 Small Business Server.
Everything seemed OK, until regular domain users tried to login to universe.
It seems to accept username/password but then telnet session terminates
imm
Joe,
We have seen similar problems in the past when NT user setups were copied
over. We had to re-enter the users on Windows to get them to work. You
might try setting up a new user in the user group and see if you can log in.
If that works, you probably will need to set up the users from scratch
Here are the notes that I have been using (for UD):
Open AD Users and Computers.
Create a Global group
Add members to group accordingly, then assign directory rights accordingly.
Click Start -> Programs -> Administrative Tools and click Domain Controller
Security Policy.
Double click the Security
HI All,
Would someone please point out what I'm doing wrong with the following?
I am trying to extract the 'hello' field from the attribute below:
0059 }}}hello|13236|13226|13}E55}12478}}12657
I have tried this:
001 A
002 0
003 LTR NAME
004
005
006
007
008 F;0;(TDLT;X4;;59);X4;(G1\1)
0
001 I
002 FIELD(@RECORD<59,4>,'|',1,1)
003
004 LAST.LTR.NAME
005 12L
006 S
-Original Message-
From: Steve Ferries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:03 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [UV] - Dictionary Item for Multi-valued field
HI All,
Would someone please poi
try...
001 I
002 @RECORD<59,4,1>
003
004 LAST.LTR.NAME
005 12L
006 S
HTH
Chris
Steve Ferries wrote:
HI All,
Would someone please point out what I'm doing wrong with the following?
I am trying to extract the 'hello' field from the attribute below:
0059 }}}hello|13236|13226|13}E55}12478}
Oh... were those subvalues or pipes?
-Original Message-
From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 10:16 AM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: [UV] - Dictionary Item for Multi-valued field
try...
001 I
002 @RECORD<59,4,1>
003
004 LAST.LTR.NAME
005 12L
006
In a message dated 4/19/2004 12:31:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> The reason why you need that special view (20L vs 12L) is because you are
> constrained by your 132 column printer (or 240 cols).
>
> As a cube uses the screen as it's canvas, which has a scroll bar, you
In a message dated 4/19/2004 12:51:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> In truth I have found the fear to be more in the hearts of the IT
> person who has tweaked the system over the past 15+ years and is insulted
> that their masterpiece is being considered a dinosaur ready f
HI Jeff,
Sub-values.
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Schasny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:42 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: RE: [UV] - Dictionary Item for Multi-valued field
Oh... were those subvalues or pipes?
-Original Message-
From:
Perfect!
Thanks,
Steve
-Original Message-
From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:16 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: [UV] - Dictionary Item for Multi-valued field
try...
001 I
002 @RECORD<59,4,1>
003
004 LAST.LTR.NAME
005 12L
006 S
HTH
Chris
In a message dated 4/19/2004 1:34:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Now, would anyone care to post any experiences on performance of
> implementing a star schema in a set of normalized U2 files and doing
> drill down and roll up strictly with LIST, SORT, and its
> option
In a message dated 4/19/2004 8:09:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Both GUI and green screen environments within Nucleus are supported with ONE
> set of application code, data structures are based on data dictionaries.
> The learning path is upward, not tangental and is ba
I haven't gotten through all of the postings in the GUI thread as yet, but
am working on the question of how to write a GUI that is as good as a "green
screen" from the perspective of folks currently using a green screen
application. I saw hints at that, but nothing that tackled it from the
standp
In a message dated 4/19/2004 1:03:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> 0059 }}}hello|13236|13226|13}E55}12478}}12657
>
> I have tried this:
>
> 001 A
> 002 0
> 003 LTR NAME
> 004
> 005
> 006
> 007
> 008 F;0;(TDLT;X4;;59);X4;(G1\1)
> 009 R
> 010 12
Change G1\1 to G0|
Clarify. Are you talking about *within* the mv environment? Or an outside app?
Accuterm has the ability to recognize where a mouse-click is in regards to (col, row).
This is the same col, row that PRINT @ uses. Now if your mv programs have a single,
standard INPUT subroutine then you can simp
Dawn: Good luck in your search for this holy grail. Lemme know if such a
silver bullet is found.
I've been hunting for years.
Mark Johnson
Original Message -
From: "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: GUI as nice as
We have been using a product called SmarTerm from Esker. It allows us to
displays screen close to GUI that is easily configureable by the end
user with little to no programming. It allows for HotSpots which appear
as a button on the screen which the user can click on. Buttons are a
list of things t
Does the requirement to have no client-side setup (other than pointing a
user to a web page in a std web browser) eliminate accuterm or not? If not,
then does this permit drop-down boxes, combo boxes, calendars for date entry
and the usual icons one might expect for various features?
I'm talking
FYI, MS has changed the secedit command in 2003. To force a policy refresh,
the command is gpupdate.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/p
roddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/stan
dard/proddocs/en-us/RefrGP.asp
Regards,
T
Ah, I should add or modify one of the requirements -- when I indicated that
there needs to be no setup on the client, I should put that in the "client
tier" and consider citrix servers to be application clients, of sorts. So,
for my purposes (though not for everyone), a citrix server is not an opt
My former employer Intuit Eclipse has successfully implemented a Java front
end ("Solar Eclipse"... get it, Sun... Java... Solar, Arrgh) for their
distribution ERP system. The nice part is that you can use any combibnation
of GUI and character interface you like. For example, the guys in the
w
A friend of ours works for H&R Block. We had some questions regarding
taxes and found out that H&R would let her run the figures through their
Tax program. I'd sure like to know what its built on as it was one of the
best GUI's I've seen.
At 01:17 PM 4/19/2004, Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
I haven
And as luck would have it, one of my recent clients uses Intuit Eclipse
(without the GUI) so I just might get a look at that in the future (not to
be confused with the IBM-ish Eclipse IDE & container).
Thanks, Jeff. --dawn
Dawn M. Wolthuis
Tincat Group, Inc.
www.tincat-group.com
Take and give s
Hmmm. Are you saying 'Ogres' are like onions?
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 07:05, Scott Richardson wrote:
> Performance of UV applications on various Operating Systems
> is not rocket science. Perhaps better described as large, nasty
> tight onions that need peeling, one layer at a time, and
> understand
Try StringValue rather than Value.
- Original Message -
From: "Morawa, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:47:34 +0800
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UOJ: Iconv Date Picker Issue
>
> I'm having a problem input converting a date derived from using the data
> picker (DTPi
Side comment, this is too interesting a thread, it almost deserves a forum
of its own.
Dawn asks:
>Does the requirement to have no client-side setup (other than
>pointing a user to a web page in a std web browser) eliminate
>accuterm or not? If not, then does this permit drop-down
>boxes, comb
Which is precisely why I ALWAYS do a project with both ends of the sprectrum being in
on the decision process (Management & IT). What good is a system that you bring in
house only to have it a technical OR Business Solution misfit?
BTW...although sometime the shoe fits...but why is management
We first tried wIntegrate that created the GUI environment but of course
required a client side. It worked pretty well and we still have a client
using and asking for modifications to those applications.
Several years ago, we found RedBack which runs under Unidata/Universe.
Initially we focused on
We are having a UniObject dilemma and wanted to see if anyone has had a
similar problem and/or resolution. When making a call into Universe,
via UniObjects, we are seeing a session limit of 10 sessions.
Obviously, this is the 10 spawn max on enterprise or ip-based Universe
licenses. We were under
Isn't that what System Builder did (does) with its sbclient software?
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: GUI or Event ? as nice as character-based
> Clarify. Are you talking
Have a look at the subkey property on the session object. You will need to
alter this to be unique (after every 10 connections). HTH.
Regards,
Jim
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kevin Vezertzis
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:57 PM
To:
I'm plowing through a project to setup a standard UV-ODBC table and column definition
for our application.
Our application database accounts are setup as PICK flavored accounts. For ODBC,
we're going to setup a separate account for each application account with file
pointers to the DATA port
We've got some websites accessing pre-existing pick flavoured accounts, and
another application accessing a fully compliant SQL Schema in a pick
flavoured account - a new account built from scratch with CREATE-SCHEMA etc.
Both are working fine - from universe 9.6 through to 10.1.
My only .02 is t
Goo'day,
IIRC, isn't there a problem with telnet on Micro$oft SBS that gets in the
way of what UniVerse expects of telnet?
Can't give you a deinitive "fix", other than we were informed yonks ago
*not* to use SBS with UniVerse
At 02:30 20/04/04, you wrote:
Having a strange problem at a c
Dawn,
Citrix Server would break DLG (Dawn's Law of GUI) rule 4 anyway, as you would need to
pre-install Citrix client software on most platforms.
BTW Dawn, do you have a mathematic proof of DLG ?
Just wondering, 'cause just like the "Great Date Debate", many may be happy to 'bend'
these rules
After extensive effort, creating an example to send to IBM we believe we
have found the problem.
One of our files had a trigger. Due to this the big/little endian
conversion, using CONVERT.FORMAT did not seem to completely work. However
this was not obvious. We thought we had reconverted all fi
> My only .02 is that the fully compliant schema seems to
> interact better with
> odbc SQL clients - probably because using CREATE-TABLE
> commands makes the
> dictionaries exactly what they should be, and the creation of
> things like
> UV_TABLES.
>
We probably won't go so far as to define a
Citrix and I don't get along -- too many bad memories trying to set up ODBC
so that client machines ... anyway, I know that there are reasons that shops
use it, just as there are reasons I hope not to have to touch the product
again ;-)
And I didn't intend for Java to be the only possible solution
Thanks for the report, Sara.
One thing I'd like to verify--is the work-around to this to simply
delete the trigger and recreate it? Or did you have to create a whole
new file, copy the records, and rename the file?
--
Regards,
Clif
~~~
W. Clifton Olive
Dawn,
What constitutes an acceptable level of client install? After all,
if they are running a Mac, Wintel, Linux box, etc., they have
pre-installed software. What about auto-install, auto-config software?
that requires nothing of the user, but still requires additional software.
- Chuck
Dawn,
how blue sky are we talking?
I am hugely impressed with wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org) a C++ GUI
framework for developing applications on Windows, X, Mac, OS/2.
I also think the world is crying out for a cross platform application
browesr (same idea as a web browser, but for running
Sounds like a good find Sara - any of that midnight oil left :-)
Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage – an Evolution in Software Development
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of Sara Burns
>Sent: Tuesday, 20 April 2004 10:23 AM
>To: '[EMAIL
Anyone up for a little "straw poll" ?
A recurrent theme that I see played out in this & related forums is the "well, does it
run on MAC or Linux on the Desktop" question. Often, when asked, the people that
raised the issue don't have either platform in their installation - it is merely a
standa
>
>I also think the world is crying out for a cross platform application
>browesr (same idea as a web browser, but for running applications defined
>using XML and downloaded from a server. Not designed for browsing websites
>and hence with different security requirements (and permission to do more
In a message dated 4/19/2004 11:59:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Does the requirement to have no client-side setup (other than pointing a
> user to a web page in a std web browser) eliminate accuterm or not? If not,
> then does this permit drop-down boxes, combo boxes
In a message dated 4/19/2004 6:36:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> This does violate your rule about zero install, but I can't think of a real
> zero install technology ... once you consider web browser dependencies, java
> dependencies, flash player dependencies, citrix
> SO, I think to myself, I wonder what the REAL numbers are?.
According to http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Windows 90%+
Mac 4%
Linux1%
If anything over the last few years windows market share has been increasing as mac
which used
to be in excess of 5% fades slightly
>You can't really have a zero client footprint. I'd rephrase Dawn's
statement
>to say that perhaps you are using client software that "the average person
>would ALREADY have installed" such as a browser, a jpg viewer, a mp3
player,
>etc.
As long as its the RIGHT browser, an appropriate version, c
H,
That could exclude Java, as I don't think the JVM ships these days with XP, does it ?
Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage – an Evolution in Software Development
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday,
>Perhaps you need to look at XAML/Avalon, which will be part of Windows
"Longhorn" by the time it >BYTES, the various opensource CLT projects
should be up & away, and you may have your path.
But Ross, that gives me no more advantages than using IE6 in the context of
Dawn's question (although
Sara,
Did you try a RESIZE on the file? And if so, what was the result?
Andrew Mack
Deputy Sys Admin
NZDF HRMIS
04 2371 914
From: Sara Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: U2 Users Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UV Crash on W2K3
Date: T
At 15:12 20/04/04, you wrote:
just ask WordPerfect and Lotus (or DOS devotees or dumb terminal
vendors or Eudora users or Netscape shareholders or vb6 developers).
And, just what's wrong with these things?They're still available. And
work And are used.
Well, perhaps not DOS or dumb termi
Wow. Thanks to all who have helped me create a proposal for my client to possibly keep
their MV system as a Data Warehouse to Great Plains. Especially the Data Cube concept
which has been in Results for 24 years.
I would like to get some first hand examples if anyone has used a MV system as a Da
>> just ask WordPerfect and Lotus (or DOS devotees or dumb terminal
>>vendors or Eudora users or Netscape shareholders or vb6 developers).
>
>And, just what's wrong with these things?They're still available. And
>work And are used.
Not a thing Bruce I wasn't suggesting there was. But ther
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/19/2004 11:59:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does the requirement to have no client-side setup (other than pointing a
user to a web page in a std web browser) eliminate accuterm or not? If not,
then does this permit drop
In a message dated 4/19/2004 10:57:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Well, perhaps not DOS or dumb terminal vendors
wanna bet ?
Will
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Thats was first thing with I tought but unfortunately dasn't work :(
W liście z pon, 19-04-2004, godz. 16:57, Gyle Iverson pisze:
> >Rados³aw Ryckowski wrote:
> >I have external program which crash with fault 11, so I use VLIST
> >and here is strange thig. Vlist give me information about length
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