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    #91
    Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

    And if you don't use the Alpha installer?
    See our Hybrid Option here;
    https://hybridapps.example-software.com/

    Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
    You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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      #92
      Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

      Then you can expect problems, because it works with the development product you are using. It's free, it's simple, and proven. I have been a software developer for 50 years and I have learned one thing, keep it simple, don't look for problems.

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        #93
        Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

        Suggest you search for Astrum, which is a popular alternative to Alpha's installer.
        With the KISS logic you suggest, I presume you have views on the mixing of Memo Fields and Data Fields in a Table?
        Looks simple 'till it bites you.
        Not everything is as simple as following the implied instructions and this forum is about sharing experiences and discussion about many ways of doing things.
        I hope that you will accept help and dialog when you need it, but it sounds like your experience might make that unnecessary.
        See our Hybrid Option here;
        https://hybridapps.example-software.com/

        Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
        You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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          #94
          Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

          You obviously have 10 more years of experience with A5 than I do and I always accept help and dialog when needed with A5 and anything else. You can never have too much experience. With my limited experience in A5, I have not used Memo fields, obviously there must be a problem. I have mixed emotions on the forum. In the beginning it was helpful, but questions I have asked lately are not answered. They are viewed, but no comments. Even a comment on it being a stupid question would be accepted. I am too old to get involved in the complexity of a lot of that is available in A5.

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            #95
            Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

            I really doubt that folks on the Forum are deliberately ignoring you Kenyon, and no question is a "stupid question".
            It may be that a response is not possible due to lack of information - it isn't always easy to describe a problem which can be replicated quickly.
            There are a few questions which are asked where contributors are happy to spend hours trying out solutions. Other questions more personal to the user are less exciting - like getting the Alpha/MySQL connection syntax correct.
            This Forum isn't a help desk so much as an experience sharing medium.
            Apologies if I seemed a little abrupt, but RTFM isn't always appropriate.
            And you are never too old. The demographics of the users in the Desktop side reflect this.
            I've been fiddling with computers and systems nearly as long as you and only recently trying the WAS side out using SQL.
            See our Hybrid Option here;
            https://hybridapps.example-software.com/

            Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
            You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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              #96
              Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

              I have find the forum extremely useful by just reviewing other questions that may be of interest to me. But I recently hit a problem writing Xbasic where I ran out of room writing. I asked the simply question, is there a place to increase the buffer size. A simply answer of no you can't would have been sufficient. I have been trying to find a way to put a button on individual line in a grid to display a map, which is simple in a desktop. No answer. I recently found a video how to it when they released the video for the new Feature Packs, but it was for V10. I attempted to replicate in V11, but options in Supercontrols where not the same. I kept getting a Window frame error, which gave me an option to try, which actually was nice, as it gave address and picture of site. However, it did not work when posted to website, only localhost. I put details of what I did on forum and got not hits. Alternate view works fine if you have longitute and latitude, but multiple errors if you just try to use address. You would think the experts at A5 would know the solution, as I ahve seen them give solutions to a lot of more complex questions.

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                #97
                Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                Originally posted by swksys View Post
                I have find the forum extremely useful by just reviewing other questions that may be of interest to me. But I recently hit a problem writing Xbasic where I ran out of room writing. I asked the simply question, is there a place to increase the buffer size. A simply answer of no you can't would have been sufficient. I have been trying to find a way to put a button on individual line in a grid to display a map, which is simple in a desktop. No answer. I recently found a video how to it when they released the video for the new Feature Packs, but it was for V10. I attempted to replicate in V11, but options in Supercontrols where not the same. I kept getting a Window frame error, which gave me an option to try, which actually was nice, as it gave address and picture of site. However, it did not work when posted to website, only localhost. I put details of what I did on forum and got not hits. Alternate view works fine if you have longitute and latitude, but multiple errors if you just try to use address. You would think the experts at A5 would know the solution, as I ahve seen them give solutions to a lot of more complex questions.
                I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to say. Are you suggesting that there is some strange mysterious conspiracy where people on this board are deliberately not answering your questions, but answering everyone else?
                Peter
                AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                 [email protected]
                https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                  #98
                  Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                  There are cases when I have a question and then think about it and figure it out and come back and say never mind, I worked it out. Or I will find a work around, when I get no response. But I have asked twice about Google map on button on a grid line and have had no response, so, yes, I am starting to get paranoid. I know you have been one person providing the most help. With my limited experience I have actually given some solutions, so I am not going to avoid the forum, as it is tremendous help to a lot of people and I find solutions to questions I have not come across yet.

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                    #99
                    Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                    I suppose if you have a number of unanswered posts you might wonder if it's bad breath or something. But you surely must know that this is just coincidental. Scroll though some of the forums and you will see other unanswered posts. I just counted 5 unanswered posts from yesterday in the v11 web and none were yours. It just happens that way sometimes.
                    Peter
                    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                     [email protected]
                    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                      #100
                      Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                      I agree, as I see the same thing and I realize a few of mine may appear to be obvious, and that when I quickly come back and indicate I found solution. See A5V11 Web/Browser, page 2 date 3-1-2012 11:31 am . What more info do I need to provide. Have had 11 views, which is not a lot, so either not a lot of people think this is a nice feature to have or the solution is too obvious.

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                        #101
                        Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                        Kenyon, I use the Google Maps feature as well as other Super Controls in the DeskTop (DT) side.
                        I believe that the problem is the ability of the WAS side to drop an example onto the Forum for someone to fiddle with, however I need to look at how this can be done.
                        In DT Forum, it's easy to drop an example - just Tables or the whiole zipped Database.
                        The example you quote would require someone who is interested enough to build and try it out so as to provide an answer and while I have the time at present, I don't have the knowledge yet to suggest a meaningful solution.
                        A number of my posts have been "blanked", and I suspect it's no so much a sign of disinterest as having nothing constructive to say on the matter.
                        You will bump into Stan Mathews on the Forum who is, like many here, extreemly knowledgible. He is also very direct so the answers you get might be a short piece of working code and nowt else! No time wasting - just the answer.
                        See our Hybrid Option here;
                        https://hybridapps.example-software.com/

                        Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
                        You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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                          #102
                          Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                          Peter,

                          Thanks for feedback. I was hoping the person whole put together the video for V10 might see it. One would think the gurus at A5 would have the solution, as I see they provide a lot. I think this is a nice marketing point in an application, as as is Alternate view, in spite of Google errors, which are corrected with proper co-ordinates. However, this requires a lot of downloading from Google site and modifications to databases with addresses.
                          Google wants addresses with commas between address, city, st, zip, which is logical, but not how addresses are normally stored in a database.

                          Ken

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                            #103
                            Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                            I'm not the hall monitor but it seems to me that this discussion has drifted way off topic. Why not continue in an existing thread that discusses these things, or even better, begin a new thread? Otherwise, when you come up with something helpful folks searching for it later are going to have to wade through 4 pages of messages that have nothing to do with what you are now discussing. Thanks.

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                              #104
                              Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                              Works for me. Thanks.

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                                #105
                                Re: Frustration and more frustration trying to install a V11 desktop app on another P

                                creating a custom menu is working now. it was broken for about 5 days and we are sorry about that. however, all that you had to do was roll back to a previous update. all previous updates are available from the downloads page.

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