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
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
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
And it was YOU that bought it!
m coffee... need more..
Les :-)
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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...
Will and others,
Original point...
My main point was, that the tools are here. Are you ready to learn how to
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
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
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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
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.
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 9.6.1.9
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
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
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)
001 I
002 FIELD(@RECORD59,4,'|',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
try...
001 I
002 @RECORD59,4,1
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
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 @RECORD59,4,1
003
004 LAST.LTR.NAME
005 12L
006 S
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-
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 @RECORD59,4,1
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
options?
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
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
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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
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,
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
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
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
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
understanding
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
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
Isn't that what System Builder did (does) with its sbclient software?
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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 about
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
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
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
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 SQL
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
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
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
standard
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,
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,
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, 20
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 I
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: Tue, 20
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
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