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Stephen W. Meeley
2-Feb-2005, 11:48 AM
Peter (and anyone else in the same boat),

How long has it been since you've had a serious discussion with us (in
your case - DAAP) to see if some licensing arrangement could be reached?


VDF 7.3 is will be 4 years old in April and the list of fixes,
improvements and new technologies (let alone support) between 7.3 and
10.1 (let alone 11.0 - coming soon) is so large, it isn't even fair to
try to compare the two! At what point, do the licensing costs (even at
list prices - which nobody pays anyway) become less "expensive" than
what you are missing - especially when you add in all the time and
effort you've spent just getting 7.3 to do what you need it to do on
newer platforms or with newer technologies.

Best regards,

-SWM-


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Brooks [mailto:phbrooks@optushome.com.au]
Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:46 PM
Posted To: visual-dataflex
Conversation: vdf7.3 and word crashing
Subject: Re: vdf7.3 and word crashing


More Information established.
1. It used to work on all my XP PCs
2. Different versions of the program (going back 6 months) now no longer
work. Sometimes it appears to work in some situations.
3. So what is different - XP Service Pack 2?

Conclusion. I will need to test further on other PC's elsewhere.
If DAW can change their licensing policy I could upgrade to vdf10.1

Peter Brooks

wila
2-Feb-2005, 01:23 PM
Stephen Meeley wrote:
> Peter (and anyone else in the same boat),
>
> How long has it been since you've had a serious discussion with us (in
> your case - DAAP) to see if some licensing arrangement could be reached?

Says someone that just dismissed their old NT4 NNTP server (sorry please
delete couldn't help myself <VVBG>)

Wil
>
>
> VDF 7.3 is will be 4 years old in April and the list of fixes,
> improvements and new technologies (let alone support) between 7.3 and
> 10.1 (let alone 11.0 - coming soon) is so large, it isn't even fair to
> try to compare the two! At what point, do the licensing costs (even at
> list prices - which nobody pays anyway) become less "expensive" than
> what you are missing - especially when you add in all the time and
> effort you've spent just getting 7.3 to do what you need it to do on
> newer platforms or with newer technologies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -SWM-
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Brooks [mailto:phbrooks@optushome.com.au]
> Posted At: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:46 PM
> Posted To: visual-dataflex
> Conversation: vdf7.3 and word crashing
> Subject: Re: vdf7.3 and word crashing
>
>
> More Information established.
> 1. It used to work on all my XP PCs
> 2. Different versions of the program (going back 6 months) now no longer
> work. Sometimes it appears to work in some situations.
> 3. So what is different - XP Service Pack 2?
>
> Conclusion. I will need to test further on other PC's elsewhere.
> If DAW can change their licensing policy I could upgrade to vdf10.1
>
> Peter Brooks
>
>

Peter Brooks
2-Feb-2005, 04:20 PM
Unfortunately for me I developed a low-end priced vertical market product
that I was giving away to get market penetration and now sells from $99.00.
There are many others in the same boat. I have kept up with all the latest
product releases and would really like to go that route. I will be at the
Corroboree and will discus it then. I did discuss a few years back with the
Aust distributor an option of me creating an open source version which would
become part of the samples, but that idea died a natural death. The main
problem is that there is very little work around in the vdf/webapp arena and
my wife wants me to get a real job - one that pays money. I need to be a
salesperson which I am not interested in being.

PS I have started converting this product across to 10.1 to see if that will
fix this bug.

Peter Brooks
www.membershipadmin.com

Henrik Staun Poulsen
3-Feb-2005, 05:15 AM
Peter,

> and my wife wants me to get a real job - one that pays money. I need to be a
> salesperson which I am not interested in being.

I was in that boat 3 years ago.
Now my wife is only the boss 2 days a week, and another person is my
boss the other 5 days. <vbg>

I whish I had done some more selling.
Just a few hours every week would probably have been sufficient.

Best regards
Henrik

Peter Brooks
3-Feb-2005, 09:26 PM
Stephen thanks for putting me on the right track. I agree that we all need
to keep up. I created a vdf10.1 program with the mail merge view and let the
debugger find out the problem.

This may be a question/note for Starzen. The solution was to remove a line
of code from a Starzen VPE package (cszvpedocument)

Procedure OnDestroyWindow
Local Integer iRtv
Local Handle hDoc

If (phoCurrentDocument(Self)) Send OnDestroyWindow TO
(phoCurrentDocument(Self))
Else Begin
If (phDocument(Self)) Begin
//Send DoVpeCloseDoc
Move (phDocument(Self)) TO hDoc
Set phDocument TO 0
// Move (VPECloseDoc(hDoc)) TO iRtv //PB to stop a crash when
returning from Word
End
Set phMainWindow TO 0
End
End_Procedure