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    Several Problems Please help

    Hello!

    First of all, I hope that I am posting in the correct area. I am still relatively new to alpha 5. I was quite proficient with alpha 4 several years ago. I have excellent computer skills and have spent years training people to use the computer. However, I am not a programmer and although I plan to learn X Basic in the coming months, I am currently using only action scripting.

    Here are my issues:

    1. When I open a form, any form, the first time, I have either a field label or the font on a button that is about twice the size of the rest. The fonts are all designed to be the same size. Why does this happpen, will this happen after I save the application and install it in the runtime?

    2. I cannot use qlinker, I get the error that says the "multiple ole db... no work was done". I have looked in the postings but could not find an answer. I found a solution on the microsoft website but I do not know which A5 file to apply it to.

    3. After I have been working on a form for a while, parts of it start to disappear, I have to exit a5 and sometimes even reboot my computer to get it back. Please help!!

    4. There are two patches on the downloads page, one for a5home and one for a5 full. I have both versions. Can I install both patches into their respective programs??

    Thank you for any help that you can give me!! I hope to learn enough to someday be able to return the favor!!

    Michelle Murphy
    Rochester, NY
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    RE: Several Problems Please help

    1 & 3 may be related to your video display adapter, especially if you're running Windows 98. Disable or dial down any hardware acceleration you have specified for your video display adapter. Verify that you have the latest video drivers from your card's manufacturer. In any case it's helpful to remember that Alpha Five is a large memory hungry application. Multi-tasking with other large applications can lead to display irregularities especially with Win98.

    4 is easy. Yes.

    -- tom

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      RE: Several Problems Please help

      Thanks for such a quick reply. I am running windows XP and I also try to run only A5 when I am working on it. I have a bunch of processes running but they are all antivirus and firewall. I have a fairly large memory.

      Does this change your response?

      Thanks!!

      M

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        RE: Several Problems Please help

        For XP I'd contact my video card manufacturer and install the latest drivers. -- tom

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          #5
          RE: Several Problems Please help

          Hello Again!!

          I turned of my hardware accelerator which completely turned off my display adapter. I have many programs which I need the adapter for. Three things:

          1. Turning off the adapter did not solve my problem with the font size.

          2. Could this be because I am using a notebook?

          3. If this happens on my client's computer, if I can fix it by turning off his hardware accelerator, can I work this into a script? He will need to turn it on and off and this is the first computer his company has had, they can barely turn it on.

          Thank you!!!

          M

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