Email Locks up

[forskare]

Is anyone else having problems with sending a report via email? I've created buttons via action swcripting on various forms and every one ends the same. Click the button and the entire app locks up. I can close out the app but the lockup remains in memory cause as soon as I try to work with the app, no matter what I do, the app locks up again.

The only way to erase the memory is to reboot the computer. The app works fine until I press the send an email button.

I've tried all kinds of things over the last 2 days but can't find the cause. Perhaps a few of you could create a button with action script to email a report and see if it works.

My system is a Vista Home Premium, 64 bit.

Thanks,

kenn

[Al_MacT]

Re: Email Locks up

Kenn,

I have just tried what you suggested and it worked without any problem. I have Vista Business Edition. I have selected default mail which is Lotus Notes and have not configured the built-in email tool.

What settings have you used for email? (View - Settings - System -Email).

Al

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

Kenn,

I have just tried what you suggested and it worked without any problem. I have Vista Business Edition. I have selected default mail which is Lotus Notes and have not configured the built-in email tool.

What settings have you used for email? (View - Settings - System -Email).

Al

I have 2 profiles set up in View Settings. Everything there is pretty straight forward. One is set for MS Outlook on my work notebook and the other for my personal workbook.

While in form view, clicking Tools->Email, the email template comes up and that may work. Unfortunately I tried to print/save a report to File but that locks up as well.

I don't know how A5 interacts with Vista or if/where they are files/settings to change, etc. I've tried creating a button on a blank form but it locks up the system as well. When I reinstalled A5v9, I uninstalled it first but the uninstall does not remove all files in the registry. To get a clean reinstall, I need to know which files and their location to remove all references to A5. Anyone know where the files are located in the registry?

Thanks,

kenn

[DVSOL005]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken,

I am using an e-mail button in a small app and that works fine.
I use it to send a PDF and to attach product photos.

Have been trying this with outlook and that works fine, but today I found out that using the e-mail on an end user computer with multiple profiles under outlook causes problems.

I don't care much which system is used to send the e-mail as long as it gets the job done. As a work around I selected the A5 mail client. Also I use a pop3 acount and some configuration needs to be done first of all in the action scripting; very likely the problem can be found there, otherwise the e-mail client should start.
Can you access the task manager and kill A5 instance(s) instead of reboot?

If you like we could compare and check settings?

Regards,

[DVSOL005]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken,

I have now tested on a slow Vista Business laptop with both the internal client and the default client which is Outlook, both test went fine.

The e-mail function I use in action scripting is from the category Reports and the action is Send a layout via E-mail.

Perhaps you might have a different function?

Regards,

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken,

I am using an e-mail button in a small app and that works fine.
I use it to send a PDF and to attach product photos.

Have been trying this with outlook and that works fine, but today I found out that using the e-mail on an end user computer with multiple profiles under outlook causes problems.

I don't care much which system is used to send the e-mail as long as it gets the job done. As a work around I selected the A5 mail client. Also I use a pop3 acount and some configuration needs to be done first of all in the action scripting; very likely the problem can be found there, otherwise the e-mail client should start.
Can you access the task manager and kill A5 instance(s) instead of reboot?

If you like we could compare and check settings?

Regards,

I use either the task manager or clicking the big red X twice gets me out of A5. Unless I reboot, when I open A5, pressing on any menu item will lock it up or 3-4 clicks in design or view will lock it up.

I created a single table database with 1 record and 1 form. While I was creating a report, A5 frose as if it were on an iceberg. I also used Cclean but that didn't change anything. My next thought is to remove all aspects of A5v9 including files in the registry. I also have the v9 app server and v9rt installed so I'll remove those as well and reinstall v9.

kenn

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken,

I have now tested on a slow Vista Business laptop with both the internal client and the default client which is Outlook, both test went fine.

The e-mail function I use in action scripting is from the category Reports and the action is Send a layout via E-mail.

Perhaps you might have a different function?

Regards,

I set up a profile with settings and also created a button with nothing more than the default settings or the lack there of, very bare bones. Still locks up. This is what I think of my opportunity to learn a new trick. :p

kenn

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

I may be closer. I uninstalled A5v9, A5v9RT and the A5v9 App Server and then deleted a ton of stuff in the registry. Upon reinstalling v9, the installation hung up while installing the code libraries. After the installation was completed, I opoened the app and pressed the button I created for the Email. A window popped up and the dialof title was "Printing". AAbout 5 seconds later another dialog popped up saying Alpha could not find the printer.

OK, what in the world does the printer have to do with sending an email. Were the dialog texts programed wrong? Or, is there something amiss with A5? Something that when used on my computrer trips the circut breaker?

I downloaded the latest A5v9 file from Alpha's web site so the install was done with the latese v9 .exe file.

Now What???

kenn

[John Hertzler]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken,

Are you able to create other pdf? Sounds like this may be related to the Amyuni print driver that creates the pdf report. I seem to remember that there are issues with Amyuni its use with 64 bit machines. I don't remember how this was resolved.

With a quick search I was not able to find the links, but perhaps it is too late at night and someone else can help with the links or you will have better luck with a search of the board.

John

[DVSOL005]

Re: Email Locks up

I may be closer. I uninstalled A5v9, A5v9RT and the A5v9 App Server and then deleted a ton of stuff in the registry. Upon reinstalling v9, the installation hung up while installing the code libraries. After the installation was completed, I opoened the app and pressed the button I created for the Email. A window popped up and the dialof title was "Printing". AAbout 5 seconds later another dialog popped up saying Alpha could not find the printer.

OK, what in the world does the printer have to do with sending an email. Were the dialog texts programed wrong? Or, is there something amiss with A5? Something that when used on my computrer trips the circut breaker?

I downloaded the latest A5v9 file from Alpha's web site so the install was done with the latese v9 .exe file.

Now What???

kenn

Ken,

The dialog is correct, at that stage a print to a pdf printer is produced and the next step is that the mail client will be opened.

John has pointed you in the right direction, must have something to do with the Alpha Five printer (Amyuni).
Do you happen to have another PC available so that you can test and compare? You just need Alpha Five V9 to test. I guess you are aware that you are allowed to have two installations under one license.

Best of luck,

[John Hertzler]

Re: Email Locks up

Now with a little more sleep check this thread http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...t=print+driver

Jeff Kletrovets writes

Hi All

Here is a solution I just found on the Amyuni Forum and IT WORKED!!!!! I can now print to PDF files using Alpha5 Version 9 on my Vista 64 Bit machine.

I modified it slightly to pertain to Alpha from what was on their forum.


1) Make sure that you are logged in as a user with administrator rights.
2) Select Control Panel, and click Printers.
3) Right-click the Alpha Five Printer icon
4) Select the Ports tab, then click the Add Port... button.
5) Select Local Port and click the New Port... button.
6) Enter NUL: for the new port name and click OK. Close the Printer Ports window.
7) Ensure that the NUL: port is selected in the Ports list.
8) Select the Advanced tab.
9) Select the Spool print documents radio button to make the options below it clickable.
10) Clear (uncheck) the box labeled Enable advanced printing features.
11) Select the Print directly to printer radio button again.
12) Click the Apply button, and then click OK.

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

Thank you Jo and John,

I followed your instructions and got it working on my notebook but I still ge the printer error 41 on my work notebook. I checked the printer properties and our MIS did get things changed there. I need to take a closer look at it. Maybe they missed something?

Thanks,

kenn

[CALocklin]

Re: Email Locks up

Ken, no ideas on the printer/e-mail issue but I might be able to save you some time re shutting down and re-booting the computer in cases like this.

Press Ctl-Alt-Del to get the Task Manager and then select the Processes tab - NOT the Applications tab. I've seen cases where no A5 applications show on the Applications tab but as many as five Alpha5.exe processes were running.

WARNING - Some users don't seem to be able to grasp the concept that there is a difference between the Applications tab and the Processes tab. Maybe they just don't know what a 'tab' is. I had one guy who kept insisting there were no Alpha processes running but I was pretty sure there were. I finally got smart and asked him how many icons there were in the Task Manager and what color they were. As soon as he started telling my the color of the first one I told him, "Stop! There are NO icons in the processes tab. You are still looking at the Applications tab. Look just above the top of the list of applications and find the tabs that say Application, Processes, Performance, Network, and Users then click on the Processes tab." He finally got it! He deleted the Alpha5.exe processes that were running and everything started working again.

[sanjugibbs]

Re: Email Locks up

Your suggestion works well, it helps me a lot and it is very convenient that it makes my work easier.

[forskare]

Re: Email Locks up

Hi Cal,

Thanks for the tip. Never gave it a thought that A5 would still have a few processes running but I guess it like uninstalling A5, not all files are removed so one never gets a 'clean' uninstall.

kenn