How about a "spell checker" for the text editor? I have a couple of people that could really use that!

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That'll work for me!

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Cool!

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Yes.  Either, or both.

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Yes.

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Retained.  I am thinking that the text could be colorized/bolded/highlighted in much the same way formatting is done in other text editors.  This would help distinguish specific sections of code which perform certain actions, as a way for the programmer to "jump to" the area he is concerned with, for whatever reason. 

Advanced programmers read code easily because of long practice, and can quickly see what a specific section of code does by quickly scanning it.  For beginners such as myself all the text "runs together" and I have to pick it apart piece by piece.  However, if I could highlight all my XLookups, for example, I could ignore all the unmarked (or differently colored) concatenation code that uses the XLookup results.  Just an example.  I think programmers could find numerous uses for formatted code.

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Perhaps a set of commands could be offered in a "customize" right-click menu, which could contain all the user-defined commands as well as the built-in, much as Microsoft Word allows the user to build his toolbar structure.

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I only have to hover over a new button a couple of times before I learn what they do.  After that, use of them becomes automatic.  I have not experienced the tedium you speak of.  Words seem better suited to drop-down menus than toolbars, IMO, and the time difference between selecting a menu item and scrolling down the list as opposed to just clicking on a button (however small that time is) justifies the use of a button.  Again, in my opinion.  Your mileage may vary.

Thanks again for listening to my ideas.

How about an option to enlarge the window with the arrows you use to  flip between records and shows how many records there are? I am fine with it but one of the ladies that will be using the program has trouble with the small type.

I LOVE these suggestion boards. Usually anything I might have thought of is here already.

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In the ini file in 2.0 there is an entry for Secondary Font Size. If you make this number bigger, both the Arrows and Record numbers get bigger.

-Ray

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In March 2006 issue of InsideSesame gives detailed article about how the expanded field can be spell-checked in Sesame.  I have not tried it yet but I am sure it should not be that difficult.

Bharat Naik

If you select the item you want to move, hold down shift and then press the cursor key up or down, the item will move and the list will scroll automatically.

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As mentioned above, you can do this now by holding down shift and moving the item with the up/down cursor keys. In addition, I have changed it for 2.0 so that it will scroll if dragged with the mouse as well.

Hi

Very useful would be a opportunity to set own page sizes for the print command (PrintPagePaper(...) )

if this works would be verry usefull
what kind of dimension is used then ?
maybe pix, inch, (i dont think) mm

I want to use it with a endless printer (star tsp700) for POS system
so there is no PaperEnd in Y direction

is not really important
i am taking now A4 paper and print several pages but maybe it would be necessary for other users

very interesting thanks for the tip

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None of the above. It is controlled by the order in which the elements appear on your Form. As to alphabetizing, 2.0 has this feature already implemented. 

Hello!

I need to translate the menu tree  into german.  

I would like to know if it ist possible to change the user menu commands to german ?

The old problem with exported  records from Q&A 5 german DOS as Standard Ascii :
the  special german characters (umlauts) schown   strange symbols.
With Sesame, i have descovred today
that the old problem is solved.

That is fine, thank you for the fix!

Document management application is the need of the hour for small to medium size business as well as any average household. Integrated document management application with any other database application would add immensely to the practical use.

What I foresee is to have the ability to scan any document from inside Sesame and Sesame should give appropriate Unique name integrating the key field, date and sequential number and place the name of the document in specified natural linked form field (Natural Link, as it would expand to accommodate more documents as required.  There are programs which scan the documents in PDF format such as PaperPort.  If something like that could be achieved then documents can be opened, printed, emailed or faxed with a click of a button. Acrobat Readers are ubiquitous and freely available.  If not pdf format, there are multi-page tiff format that could be later on converted to pdf for distribution.

There are good document management systems available but they are of little use to us unless they could be easily integrated in acceptable way with Sesame which is the heart and soul of our business.

I am aware that development team at Lantica has achieved all these capabilities in spite of not resorting to using dll files with exception of ODBC driver (that  I have opted to do without) and that has made the life simpler for all the users.  Is there a way to make Scanning  available from inside Sesame without dll file?

I see very urgent need for such integrated application in my (medical) profession and this may be true for all different professions and businesses.  We all know Sesame can do all these effectively with a little utilization of available other resources in the computer.  I also believe such implementation can give Sesame competitive advantage in the market. I guess my vision is limited while the developers will have a lot broader scope in mind and I have little doubt that in due course it will be implemented in a lot better way than I could ever imagine. My only hope that it is implemented sooner. Is it too much to ask for in version 2.0?

Bharat Naik

Actually, just looking around, I found some command line scan/acquire/convert utilities for windows.

Acquire from Dosadi ($99 USD)
http://www.dosadi.com/acqdet.htm

Able Graphics Manager ($35 USD)
http://www.graphicregion.com/products.htm

It also looks like the SANE command line tools have been ported to windows (in several incarnations) - and most are free.

http://sanetwain.ozuzo.net/
http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/scanning.html

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Does this mean it could be done in Sesame right now as it is? Is there anything Developers can do the make it simpler?

Thanks Mark. I will look into the few links that you have given and see what they have to offer.

OCR in Adobe Acrobat is very good (not in the Reader), that makes editing and modification of the document easy.  It might also save storage space as I believe, searchable .pdf takes less space to store as it is not an image file.

Hi Peter,
The application that is under discussion is a command line scanner utility that would help to automize scanning and putting the automatically generated pdf file name into Sesame layout element. This will help making and integrating document management application into your application using Sesame. Sesame is very good at using external resources using @shell and @asynchshell. So far we have seen it using MS Word, Browsers, Excel, email program, Dialer, Spellchek, etc.  The list will go on and on as we dig further. All these lands a lot of power to Sesame.

Regarding the Captain's post:

1. This would be nice if it worked more like other Windows windows. Does Linux or a Mac work this way? (I only use Windows.)

2. Ditto

3. Ditto

Good suggestions.

Ray,

That'll do. Thank you! 8)