Nabble - Active4D

Web Application Deployment

2009-07-06T10:58:21Z

Assuming HTML and Javascript, CSS, are the primary technologies, when
web-ifying a 4D Client application including the delivery of reports, what
is the preferred method for delivering to the client complex reports?

I can imagine a user interface where the report is defined and requested,
then a link is dynamically created pointing to the newly created PDF report,
and the browser refreshes until this PDF is "available". When it is
available the user selects it for viewing, etc.

I imagined processes created on a 4D server to handle the report creation.

Does that sound workable in an environment with hundreds of simultaneous web
users?

Thanks,

David

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Woo-hoo!

2009-07-04T06:54:08Z

Friends,

HUGE NEWS!! At long last, after months of toil and struggle, endless
blood, sweat and tears, I have serving of web pages working! I still
have a lot of coding and testing left to do, but the server and
interpreter are working enough to run the following:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Active4D!</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id="content">
<%
for ($i; 1; 7)
if ($i = 7)
write("<p>last</p>")
else
write("<p>not last</p>")
end if
%>
<p><%= "Hello world! Je suis très content et élevé.
शरी िचनमोइ. らまはけキレユム" %></p>
<% end for %>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Note the luscious non-Latin (Devanagari and Japanese) text. My
apologies to any Japanese readers, I just entered random characters --
hope it doesn't mean anything embarrassing.

Like I said, while this is huge milestone, I still have a lot to do.
So please don't be impatient.

Regards,

Aparajita
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[ANN] Licensing and support changes

2009-07-02T06:32:18Z

Hi all,

As of this morning, the pricing, licensing and support policies for
Active4D have changed. In short, I am more or less going back to the
way things were a year ago.

PRICING
Pricing has reverted to the old scheme: $700 per deployment for the
first year, $130 per deployment per year thereafter.

LICENSING
Each deployment license must be renewed yearly in order to qualify for
IP address changes.

SUPPORT
The Premium Support forums are now locked for posting. All support
will move back to the mailing list. I feel this will be much better
for everyone. Those who purchased Premium Support within the last year
will be compensated in some way, most likely through some sort of pro-
rated discount on your next license renewal.

Sorry if the changes causes any confusion. The current system turned
out to be unworkable and financially unsustainable. A synopsis of the
new licensing and support policies can be found at:

http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/licensing.php

Thank you for your patience and for your continued support!

Regards,

Aparajita
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v11 Update

2009-06-30T05:18:46Z

Hi Aparajita,

It's been a little over a month since the last v11 message. Would you
mind giving the list an update on how the work is going? Any major
hang-ups or trouble points? Any estimates on a beta?

We're all chomping at the bit to do some beta testing - thanks!

Best Regards

- Clayton

Clayton L. Donahue

The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.

cdonahue@... <mailto:cdonahue@...>

(781) 449-5287

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A4D scalability

2009-06-16T14:05:40Z

If you are using 4D/A4D in any configuration that has multiple A4D web
servers serving the same domain on the same database for volume reasons,
please let me know.

Thanks,
David Ringsmuth

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Practical Session Limits

2009-06-15T14:03:29Z

I've got a Client who wants to put up a web site that will server 50,000 to
100,000 users.

In the current architecture of A4Dv4.5r1 and 4D 04.7R3HF3 on Windows Server
2003 SE SP2 on 2 CPU 2.66GHz with 1GB RAM, and a major high speed internet
connection.

..is it reasonable to say that A4D can responsively support 5000
simultaneous user sessions where the users are editing their own individual
user records, A4D is written using FuseBox methods, the HTML uses an IFrame
to return the changed portion of the user experience, the other elements
reasonably optimized?

If the answer is "YES", please show me a site that handles this kind of
volume so that I can tell my client, "Look here."

Thanks,

David

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Safari 4 and A4D 4.5

2009-06-11T14:04:52Z

Hello -

I just upgraded to Safari 4 on a 10.5.7 system and I am testing v2004 Mac
Server (10.5.7) with A4D 4.5. The application is flaking out by not
returning pages and other strange things.

But Safari 3.2 and A4D 4.5 are fine on the v2004 server.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a workaround?

Thanks - Lisa

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Update: Safari 4 Beta 5530.17 and EXT grids with Active4D (solved)

2009-06-10T10:51:58Z

Looks like the User Agent was a bit wonky with the new beta of Safari.
Opened up the Develop menu under Safari and changed the User Agent
from Default to Safari 4 Mac and everything started working again.

Christian Cypert
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Safari 4 Beta 5530.17 and EXT grids with Active4D

2009-06-10T08:45:23Z

Just updated to the latest Safari Beta that came out on Monday and now
all my EXT grids that I'm using no longer display. These all work
under Firefox and IE, but no longer Safari. I checked out the EXT main
web site's examples page and the EXT grids are working there. Not sure
if the problem is on my end, or something Safari has done. Anyone else
run into this problem yet?

Christian Cypert
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blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very
popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a
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NTK and A4D shell

2009-06-10T08:42:38Z

Hi,

is there an example about NTK and A4D shell anywhere?

Greetings,
[4D-Consulting.com]eK, Wiesbaden (Germany)
Peter Schumacher
--------------------------------------------------------
Web: http://www.4D-Consulting.com/
FreeCall: 0800-434 636 7
Tel.: +49-611-9406.850 - Fax: +49-611-9406.744
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Member of the German Developer Network http://www.die4dwerkstatt.de

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Mac 2004.7r3HF3 A4d4.0.2 crashing when stale cookie in response header is present for new session

2009-06-06T19:48:53Z

I am consistently crashing 4D Server (web server) after logging off this
site, and then re-accessing the same site with the same browser
window/instance.

If I use a new browser instance, 4D Server does not crash.

I strongly suspect the problem is the stale session cookie.

I purchased the Developer license last August.

The customer purchased their key more than a year ago.

Is an upgrade to 4.5r1 the correct solution? Is this solution already paid
for, or does it require further upgrade purchase by my client?

Thanks,

David Ringsmuth

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Normal?

2009-06-06T09:46:33Z

4D v2004.7r3HF3, A4d v4+ Macintosh.

4D Server 4DDebugLog.txt (Detailed Logging)

Is it NORMAL for Active4D to perform calls such as below, continuously about
20 times a second, when not otherwise processing web requests?

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -89.

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -93.

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -89.

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -93.

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -89.

49575 [5] plugInName: Active4D v4; externCall: -93.

Or is it the effect of exposing port 80 or port 443 to the internet and
having at least one of those ports constantly polled?

These entries appear when using SET DATABASE PARAMETER(34;2)
`4ddebuglog;Detailed

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4D Debug Log Macintosh 2004.7r3HF3 A4Dv4+

2009-06-05T07:53:12Z

Please forgive me if this is documented somewhere or has already been
posted.

This morning I turned on Detailed Logging on 4D Server in the hope that I
will be able to see the last things done before a crash.

I am seeing many calls to "plugInName: Active4D v4; externalCall: -89 or
-93, or a variety of negative numbers

Is there a map for each of the negative numbered calls to specific Active4D
commands?

Thanks,

David

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System temporary folder available?

2009-06-04T13:44:23Z

Am I right in saying that the system Temporary Folder, retrieved in A4D with

$cmd:="TEMPORARY FOLDER"
$tmp:=execute in 4d($cmd;*)

is off limits since it is not specified in the A4D's ini file of usable folders?

I'd like to use a space for sending created CSV files that will be
cleared by the system rather than me having to code it.

Thanks,

Michael Check
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Google Sitemaps in ASCII

2009-05-28T04:02:44Z

Hi All

Am I right in thinking that I can create a UTF-8 compatible sitemap
document with BLOB TO DOCUMENT as long as none of the URLs contain
characters above ASCII 127 ?

Since Google requires UTF-8 encoding I'm under the impression that a
UTF-8 reader (i.e. the Googlebot looking for a sitemap file) will
understand this file.

Am I wrong in this assumption ?

Regards

Peter

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Are "On Web Connection" and/or "On Web Authentication" multi-threaded?

2009-05-24T20:28:22Z

Hello everyone,

I've done some tests that confirm processes started by 4D's New Process
command are not multi-threaded. They will all run on a single core,
regardless of the number of cores on the computer. This is true of 4D in
remote mode (client, of client/server) and of 4D Server v11.4 (and older).

The 4D database engine, however, is multi-threaded, so it can take advantage
of as many cores as you throw at it. Great for client-server interaction.
But here's the web-related question:

Does anyone know if 4D's On Web Connection and On Web Authentication
database methods run multi-threaded, like database processes (e.g.,
searches), or whether they run non-multi-threaded, like methods launched via
the New Process command? I *suspect* the latter. I just need a confirmation.

Thanks in advance.

-Steve Makohin
Oakville, Ontario, Canada

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v11 update

2009-05-24T14:48:04Z

Hi all,

Just an update on v11 progress. You may remember this picture of the
Active4D architecture:

runtime
lexer | interpreter | server
lists
SymbolTable | values
Variable4D
framework
arrays | text | date/time | files | 4D environment | logging

I have worked my way up to the next to last layer. The lexer is now
working, which is the piece which scans source text and converts it to
tokens. That was a big (and obviously important) piece, and the key
point at which I support Unicode. One nice new feature is that I scan
the first 1K of an HTML page to see if there is a meta http-equiv tag
which specifies the charset. If so, I use that charset to convert to
Unicode, which I use internally. So I support all charsets now --
utf-8, big5, shift_jis, euc, you name it. You don't have to worry
about the charset of a page not matching the configured platform
charset.

In the case of libraries and config files, if the first line is a
comment and contains "charset=<charset>", I will use that charset when
converting to Unicode.

Now I'm working on the interpreter, which as you can imagine is a huge
amount of work. But so far it is going quite smoothly -- at least as
far as converting to Unicode and getting it to compile. Whether it
works correctly I won't know until I start testing. I still have a few
days of work left until the interpreter is done.

I said I was shooting for the beginning of June for a beta, but I'm a
lousy shot, and I forgot about the lexer, which took almost a week. At
the rate it's going right now I can't see anything until the middle of
June.

Regards,

Aparajita
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ObjectTools v2.5r5

2009-05-22T04:37:18Z

Hello,

If you downloaded ObjectTools v2.5r5 before 7:30am EDT, please
download it again. The original version was an Intel-only debug build
(oops!).

Regards,

Aparajita
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[ANN] ObjectTools v2.5r5

2009-05-21T16:03:37Z

Hello,

A new release of ObjectTools is available for immediate download. This
release fixes a memory leak that occurred each time the error handler
method was called. If you are currently using ObjectTools v2.5, please
upgrade to this version ASAP.

The new version can be found at:

http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/ObjectTools/download.php

Regards,

Aparajita
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What do I need to buy from 4D to develop in Active4D v11?

2009-05-15T11:34:45Z

Hello everyone,

I am about to buy the remainder of the product I need to develop in Active4D
in 4D v11 (yes, I know it's not available just yet). I currently own 4D
Developer Pro v11.4 (Windows), but I need to buy some variant of 4D server
to test client/server code, and I am not sure what I need. I've been
developing in 4D for ages, but I am totally new to Active4D.

I want to architect a 4D system that does the following:
(1) Allows client/server interaction on a small scale (2 or 3 clients)
(2) Use Active4D for scalable web interaction (I don't need Web 2.0,
Ajax, etc. Active4D will be *the* web face)
(3) Lets me test Active4D apps, so I'll need a web server that's easy
to set up, but not necessarily able to support lots of users

What else do I need to buy from 4D?
- I believe I need 4D Server, but I am not sure if I need "4D Server" or
"4D Web App Server".
- Do I need "4D Web Application Expansion" for "4D Server"? I don't know
what this does.
- Do I need "4D Web Services Expansion" for "4D Server"? I don't know what
this does.

What should I use as a development web server?

Thanks in advance.

-Steve Makohin
Oakville, Ontario, Canada

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Image Upload Filter for Adult Images

2009-05-13T14:12:42Z

I'm going to be allowing people to upload photos in a site I'm
currently developing.

Does anyone know of a good adult image filter that could integrate
nicely with A4D?

I had a quick look at http://pikture.logikit.net/, but have not spent
a great deal of time on it yet. Just wondering if others have done
something similar.

On a related note, I'm also looking for a good "bad" word algorithm to
filter out bad words from a text field.

Any help/suggestion is appreciated.

Darin
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Active4D Housekeeper

2009-05-13T06:54:12Z

2003.8r2 Windows, A4Dv3+, WinServer2003R2SP2

4D Server is the web server.

4D Client is showing a process for Active4D Housekeeper.

I am trying to find the culprit of a continual 2% to 6% CPU usage on each
and every Client when no 4D Processes are accumulating CPU usage times as
returned in the Process Attributes command.

è How do I stop/kill/prevent the Active4D Housekeeper process from running
on the 4D Clients?

Thanks,

David Ringsmuth

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Report / Printing manager for the web

2009-05-08T09:10:17Z

We have several sites with A4D and various frameworks like Ext. We
need to incorporate a Printing/Report manager for generating onscreen
reports and csv exports. Anyone with experience or knowledge of such
a product? Something like Crystal Reports (but not as extensive), but
open source would be spectacular. We could feed it data via json, xml
or even ODBC from A4D and the db.

Thanks,

Michael Check
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Re: Date formatting and sorting?

2009-05-05T09:25:34Z

Got it working, but with a slight change to below. Instead of using
dateFormat I used sortType:'asDate'. After adding this little bit the
dates showed up and started sorting correctly. In my column definition
I call a dateRenderer to format the displayed date.

On Apr 28, 2009, at 11:00 AM, active4d-dev-request@...
wrote:

> fields: [
> 'id',
> { name: 'date', type: 'date', dateFormat: 'Y-m-d' },
> 'title',
> 'contact',
> { name: 'notes_length', type: 'int' },
> 'pa_email',
> 'pa_name'
> ],

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Date formatting and sorting?

2009-04-27T13:39:18Z

I've got a grid where I'm needing to format and sort a date field, but
running into several issues. If I do a simple render function as
follows:

renderer:Ext.util.Format.dateRenderer('m/d/Y')

This works OK, but if I have an empty date field I get "NaN/NaN/NaN"
for the field, and the sort does not appear to work in date order.
It's wanting to sort the field as if it where an alpha.

The date field is defined simply as

fields :[
'due'
]

I've also tried {name:'due', type:'date', dateFormat:'n/j h:ia'}, but
this causes errors on my end. The grid does not display any data if I
define it as such.

Thanks,

Christian Cypert
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EXT Library

2009-04-13T13:47:53Z

Does anyone have some experience with using the EXT library? We have
developed several grid forms using EXT, but are having some issues
with developing our input forms within EXT. I'm guessing the problem
is some simple error I've left out, but for example we have an input
form using EXT with a series of tabs. The first tab will load data
correctly, but the remaining tabs do not load any data. Using Firebug
I know that the data that should be displayed within the tabs is
returning correctly.

Christian Cypert
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Detecting and refusing crawlers/robots

2009-04-11T09:15:08Z

A4D v3+

After reviewing my web logs I can see that a range of IP address has been
crawling my customer's sites.

I can think of a way to detect and prevent them from causing too much
activity by using arrays of IP Addresses, Request Counters, and Time-of-Day
that which when SamePageRequests > HourlyCounterLimit(maybe 45), refuses
further responses to that IP address for 1 hour.

Is there a better way to solve this problem beside using the HTML and
robots.txt?

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">

TIA!

David

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NO ROBOTS

2009-04-08T12:58:27Z

Is there a recommend way to prevent ROBOTS from crawling an Active4D (v 3+)
Site?

I've googled this and found that HTML may help:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX">

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">

There is also a robots.txt document that may help.

Should the robots.txt document be placed in the web_decoy directory?

Thanks,

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v11 progress report

2009-03-30T07:06:24Z

Hi all,

Despite my illness, fortunately I have been able to work quite a bit
on Active4D v11. If you're wondering why it is taking me so long,
Active4D represents more than 8 years of work with over 100 source
files comprising 30,000 lines of code.

I'm working my way up the layers upon which Active4D is built. Here is
a basic picture of the architecture:

runtime
interpreter | server
lists
SymbolTable | values
Variable4D
framework
arrays | text | date/time | files | 4D environment | logging

Almost everything in the framework has been done, at least enough to
finish Variable4D, which is my class wrapper around the basic 4D
variable type (PA_Variable).

SymbolTable is also done. SymbolTable is the class used to implement
Active4D collections, which I use to store local variables, sessions,
http headers, cookies, etc.

Now I'm working on Values, which are classes that model all of the
values dealt with in the language (local/process/interprocess
variables, collections, table/field references, and constants). This
should a few days.

Lists are things like a list of libraries, a list of sessions, etc.
They should only take a day, they are pretty small classes.

The interpreter and server are quite complex as you can imagine, and
will need a lot of work because of the change to Unicode. It could
easily take me a week to finish those two.

Finally there is the runtime. I have 22 runtime source files to go
through. Some of them will take very little time. Some will take much
more time because of Unicode changes and because any code that used
the operating system API has to be changed. That could take a week or
so to finish.

So it looks like I'm 3-4 weeks away from a beta. I sure hope there are
a lot of you out there waiting to upgrade...

Regards,

Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com

"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

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Active4D running in a VM

2009-03-25T10:30:39Z

Has anyone deployed Active4D running under 4D Client where 4D (or 4D
Client) is running under a Windows OS virtual machine?

I'm specifically thinking of a situation where the host OS, Apache Web
Server and the Windows VM would be running on Linux. Requests would hit
Apache which would proxy them to 4D running on the VM.

Thanks,

Brad
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v11 progress report

2009-03-19T10:05:10Z

Hello,

First of all, I want to offer my deepest heartfelt gratitude to
everyone who sent their prayers and goodwill for my recovery. It
definitely made a difference -- the next day I felt much better and
while I am still not fully recovered I have been able to work on the
v11 version every day.

I started the very beginning of this process getting some fundamental
building blocks in place, then I started working my way through the
startup process of the plugin. I have gotten to the point where the
key file is located and validated and some other parts of the system
are initialized. As I mentioned before, I am doing lots of logging
now. Here is a sample of the log during startup:

Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Active4D 5.0d1 (Macintosh, debug)
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] 4D v11.4.0 (Mono, interpreted, Mac OS
X 10.5.6 (Intel))
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Log level: debug
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] ICU data directory: /Volumes/Supreme/
Library/Application Support/4D/com.aparajita/icu
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] ICU locale: English (United States)
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Environment checked
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Server initialized
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Lexer initialized
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Lexer: decimal point='.', grouping
separator=','
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Interpreter initialized
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Searching for key file in /Volumes/
Supreme/Library/Application Support/4D/com.aparajita/Active4D
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Found key file: /Volumes/Supreme/
Library/Application Support/4D/com.aparajita/Active4D/Active4D.key
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Found deployment license, checking IP
addresses
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface lo0: loopback
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface lo0: loopback
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface lo0: loopback
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface lo0: loopback
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface gif0: down
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface stf0: down
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface en0: AF_LINK
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Interface en0: 192.168.1.7
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [debug] Matched IP: 192.168.1.7
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Matched IP address: 192.168.1.7
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] Valid key: key version = 0x50, plugin
version = 0x50
Mar 19 12:59:58 Active4D: [info] License type = deployment

In this case debug logging was turned on, normally the [debug]
messages would not appear.

Now I am going through the higher level stuff that supports the
interpreter and runtime. It's a lot of work, but I'm making steady
progress.

Regards,

Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com

"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

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v11 update

2009-03-12T08:34:45Z

Hi all,

Just to give you an update on my progress with the v11 version...

Two years ago I sustained a physical injury to my large intestine. It
did not require surgery, but I ended up in the hospital twice because
of complications related to the injury. The nature of the injury is
such that it is very slow to heal. I suffered immensely for a year and
a half, and it is only in the last six months that my health was
getting back to normal, although I still have severe limitations on
the kind and amount of exercise I can do. This injury is one reason
for me getting started so late with the v11 version of Active4D.

Anyway, I had been slowly improving over the past few months and was
feeling quite strong up until a week and a half ago, when I walked too
far and the injury flared up. Since then I have been quite sick and
unable to get much of anything done. I am just starting to feel better
now, but I anticipate another week or two before I am back to where I
was before this relapse. Today is the first day I feel strong enough
to do serious programming.

For all of you who have been suffering without a v11 version of
Active4D, I will gladly trade your suffering for mine! Please be
assured that I take my commitment to the v11 version seriously and am
doing my best. Unfortunately I am only human and there is only one of
me to do the work. So I must humbly beg for your forgiveness and
patience.

Regards,

Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com

"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

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[ANN] New ObjectTools release available

2009-03-03T13:27:03Z

Hello,

I am happy to announce the release of a new version of ObjectTools
(v2.5r3). This version fixes a problem with pointer arguments and
implements a couple of long-standing feature requests:

- When calling OT CopyItem, if the OT AutoCreateObjects option is on,
embedded objects will automatically be created in the destination item.

- When calling OT ItemExists, if you pass a reference to an item in an
embedded object which does not exist, no error is generated and zero
is returned.

- Added OT PutBoolean and OT GetBoolean commands. You have to pass and
receive a longint, but in every other respect it acts as a separate
boolean type. This means you do not have to use OT Put/GetVariable to
store and retrieve a boolean.

- Objects serialized with ObjectTools v1 may now be deserialized using
OT BLOBToObject.

ObjectTools v2.5r3 is available for download at:

http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/ObjectTools/download.php

Regards,

Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com

"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoy.org

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[OFF] Dejal Simon

2009-02-27T14:32:34Z

Has anyone used this site monitoring tool?

http://www.dejal.com/simon/

We've used Whistleblower for years but it doesn't appear to be supported
anymore and we have it running on a first generation G3 running OS 9 so
I need to find a replacement. The powers that be view running that OS as
a vulnerability and we've been told to remove it from the network.

Recommendations for other replacements are welcome (Mac or Windows).

Thanks,

Brad
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v11 Update?

2009-02-18T05:08:15Z

Hi Aparajita,

It's been a little while since the last v11 update ... I was wondering
if you could apprise us of the latest status?

Thanks!

- Clayton

Clayton L. Donahue

The Healthcare Management Council, Inc.

cdonahue@... <mailto:cdonahue@...>

(781) 449-5287

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