Column on edit table hidden, only happens for one user (OpenInsight Specific)
At 06 FEB 2001 02:18:07AM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi All
One of my clients, ie one PC - one user, has a problem with one of the dialog boxes we use to create look up lists. The dialog box has an edit table with two columns. The left column contains "field names", the right column is available for entering what to search for. Eg if the left column row is SUBURB then you could enter "Soho" in the right column (corresponding row) and list all the records (keys) that have a suburb equal to "Soho".
But for this one user, the left hand column of the table is not displayed when she opens the form. Other lookups which use the same dialog box (for different tables) work ok for this user, and other users don't have this problem at all.
She can still see the left column but she has to press Shift+Tab first (ie backtab). When she enters something, it goes back to displaying only the right column again. There is plenty of room for the left column but it makes no difference.
My current favourite theory is that she has the F3 key (used to run Options, to bring up the dialog box) wired to do F3 and a TAB.
Just to confuse things a little more - the dialog box is actually a standard form called with the dialog box command.
And naturally this problem doesn't happen for my version of the system.
Anyone with any ideas?
Scott, LMS
At 06 FEB 2001 03:50AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Wild guess - does she have large fonts selected?
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At 06 FEB 2001 05:46PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Sprezz
No idea. I will check. They are quite strange about their GUI. Most of them have enormous 21" screens but still run at 800x600 so they can read the OI application labels etc. But they don't mind the reports at 8 point font, so long as everything is crammed on. They keep asking me if I wear contacts now, if I happen not to be wearing regular glasses. I'm not nearly as blind as they seem to be.
Will be interesting to see if that makes any difference. I don't understand why her other lookups work but that one doesn't.
Scott
At 06 FEB 2001 05:56PM Donald Bakke wrote:
Janet,
My first hunch was the font size issue as well. If that doesn't pan out then check the version of the DATATBL.DLL file. There will be one in the OpenInsight folder but other applications install this in the Windows/System directory. Different versions of this file will cause OI edittable to act strangely.
dbakke@srpcs.com
At 06 FEB 2001 10:27PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Sprezz and Don
Yes it was the font size. I changed it to small fonts and that sorted the OI problem. I suppose it didn't show up for lookups on other tables because they have different shorter lookup field names in the left column.
Unfortunately attempting to close Outlook (before rebooting to invoke the small fonts) caused a novell network message reporting that a drive, that has 6GB free space, was out of space, and we should delete something, except the message box was modal and we couldn't escape to delete something. The message box informed us if we pressed cancel that we should lose some data. Obviously that was the data that made the C drive work properly because on start up after rebooting I got the most evil scandisk error message I have ever seen.
At that point I cancelled a lot of stuff, still managed to reboot to normal windows. It wouldn't let *me* log in although I thought I sorted that problem yesterday so after the client logged in we tested the OI app and it was fine.
I told my client to use someone else's (on hols) PC until their PC support people came and checked the hard drive. When I tried using the system tools scan disk to scan, it kept crapping out with the message that some program was trying to write to the hard drive (gawd knows what because the task list showed normal operating system stuff plus scan disk only). At that point I ran away, having logged the problem with PC support.
Sheesh. This is what I get for messing with the operating system and desktop setup. ARGH.
Scott
Thinning the thatch again.
At 07 FEB 2001 05:41AM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
Thank you for that unhealthy dose of schadenfreude .
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At 07 FEB 2001 05:56PM J Scott wrote:
Hi Sprezz
The puzzle of your strange word, solved by the internet. And I thought you were making some sort of ref to bad karma eg shades of freud? Freude's ghost?
From hotbot:
For the non surfers:
The Germans have a word, "schadenfreude" - pleasure in other people's pain. Surely an unworthy emotion, which may be why we don't admit to it by having a word in English.
Ich habe keine Deutch. The word is not in common use in Oz although we are fond of the tragically funny. And we are very quick with the jokes that make fun of other people's pain. Old example: how do you fit 100 vietnamese/chinese/iraquis in a match box? Tell them it floats. And we are quite fond of the Darwin awards.
At least at my client site, all is relatively well, and I have the unfortunate reputation of miracle worker.
Scott
At 07 FEB 2001 06:04PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
The word gained prominence here courtesy of a car advert and buying the wrong car .
And tomorrow we send you Steve Smith back - he's been over here helping out on various horribly technical issues but hits Melbourne again in … I guess 36 hours.
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At 07 FEB 2001 07:06PM Scott, LMS in the Ex Grand Prix town of Adelaide wrote:
Hi Sprezz
Steve will still be 8 hours (by car) from me. I hope he takes his own water supply on the flight, cos my experience is the hosties won't bring you any. And he needs to get plenty of exercise, perhaps chasing the hosties up and down the aisles for a glass of water.
Scott, LMS
Serving coffee on planes causes Turbulence.
At 07 FEB 2001 07:11PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
He should be OK - we're not sending him clapper class on a flight that long (although normally we all fly clapper class). Last time I was in Adelaide the friendly local divers never told me about the recent great white incursion until I'd finished all my diving…
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At 07 FEB 2001 08:13PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Sprezz
The sharks are nothing to the special breed of people who drive on Adelaide roads. If you survive that, then a white pointer is no problem.
Lately the white pointers seem to prefer lone surfers. I think that some research group on an island near Hawaii have been training them to eat surfboards with cameras on. I haven't heard of any diver problems since Rodney Fox went diving in murky water and even he didn't blame the shark for tasting him. That must have been 20 or 30 years ago. Another darwinian award style activity which is popular is to jump off jetties where dead fish, bait fish and other shark berley are unloaded ie where tuna fishing boats tie up.
Given the quantity of sharks out there and people in, and on the water, it is a wonder they don't eat us more often. More people drown or get run over on the way to the beach.
So did you do the leafy seadragon dive (KI) or the multihued cuttlefish dive (Whyalla)? Or something else? Water cold enough for you?
Scott
39'C and humid, a good day for the beach and to avoid thinking about sharks and skin cancer
At 07 FEB 2001 08:38PM [url=http://www.sprezzatura.com" onMouseOver=window.status=Click here to visit our web site?';return(true)]The Sprezzatura Group[/url] wrote:
39 degrees C. hmmm… Moana beach, or Aldinga, or Seacliff maybe. There are always plenty of white pointers at Christies.
Ever been enticed by Carrickalinga's?
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At 07 FEB 2001 09:27PM Scott, LMS wrote:
Hi Sprezz
Seeing how we are so far off topic we could continue by email
jbunyip@adelaide.on.net
I mostly like beaches that don't have rips, but I guess that doesn't apply when you're wearing scuba gear.
Scott, LMS
At 08 FEB 2001 05:58AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Scott,
I'll admit to my language having the word skadefryd. Norwegisch und Deutsch sind beide Germanische Sprache. Or something like that. Your posting kept me in good humour the whole morning.
- Oystein -