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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Sesame 3 Jul 6^th, 2011 at 1:27pm	Print Post
	I know some of you aren't on Facebook, so I figured I'd post the Sesame 3 info here as well. �I'm just going to start going through our change log and sharing some of this stuff with you in no particular order. Feel free to comment.

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - Client/Server Reply #1 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 1:28pm	Print Post
	Those of you running client-server will like that we updated things so that if a client is disconnected due to things like a network hiccup or timeout, it will try to reconnect, rather than you having to close the client and reopen it.

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - Form Thumbnails Reply #2 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 1:30pm	Print Post
	One of the new features in Sesame 3 is Form Thumbnails. When you open a database, in addition to being able to select a form by name from the Button Menu, you will also be able to select a form visually by clicking on its thumbnail image. You can also select a form thumbnail to appear as the application icon in various dialog boxes. You can control whether the form thumbnails appear or not. You can also set them to appear only for top-level forms.

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - New XResultSet Commands Reply #3 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 1:31pm	Print Post
	For those of you who program your applications with SBasic: If you are using the XResultSet family (and if you're not, you should be), Sesame 3 adds several super-useful new commands to that family. @XResultSetNew(filename as string, record_definition as string) as int - Creates a new empty result set. @XResultSetUnion(one_id, two_id) as int - Merges two result sets into a new destination result set, sans duplicates. @XResultSetDifference(one_id, two_id) as int - Finds the difference between two result sets (all of the records in one_id that do not also appear in two_id). @XResultSetCompare(one_id, two_id) as int - Finds the same records between two result sets (all of the records in one_id that do also appear in two_id).

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - Close Button Reply #4 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 1:32pm	Print Post
	Sesame 3 includes a context-sensitive Close button that acts much like pressing Escape in Q&A. From a record, the Close button closes your tab. From the Application Menu, the Close button closes your application. If no application is open, the Close button closes Sesame itself.

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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #5 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 2:56pm	Print Post
	What happened to "Save" button? �I use that when I want to save the record without advancing to new record! �It also ran the On Exit event programming. Sometime I needed to run the On Exit event programming before I printed out certain forms using command buttons on the form. I guess I will have to use "Save" command button on the form itself.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #6 - Jul 6^th, 2011 at 3:04pm	Print Post
	Bharat_Naik wrote on Jul 6^th, 2011 at 2:56pm: What happened to "Save" button? �I use that when I want to save the record without advancing to new record! �It also ran the On Exit event programming. Sometime I needed to run the On Exit event programming before I printed out certain forms using command buttons on the form. I guess I will have to use "Save" command button on the form itself. The Save button you're talking about isn't for that. It is much more aggressive than that as it forces a full save of the entire database. People often ended up hiding that button because someone on a large database in a multiuser environment would keep clicking it and forcing everyone on the system to wait while the entire database wrote itself out to the hard drive. To do what you are describing, just click the Save Record button on the Button Menu. If you need to make sure a particular bit of code runs in more than one place, put it in a subroutine in Global Code and call that subroutine from your command buttons and also from On Element Exit (if need be).

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Amor Full Member Members Offline No personal text Posts: 366 Location: Germany Joined: Feb 7^th, 2004	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #7 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 11:52am	Print Post
	Does Sesame 3 generate local export files?

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #8 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 12:51pm	Print Post
	Quote: Does Sesame 3 generate local export files? Export is still a server-side operation. However, Sesame 3 does have a new SBasic command called TransferFileToClient(serverFilename as string, clientFilename as string) that transfers a file from the server to the client. Edited: BTW, there is also a new button on the Button Menu that does the same thing.
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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - Quick Search Reply #9 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 12:52pm	Print Post
	Sesame 3 � Quick Search Simple Search (which provides a weighted search-engine style search that looks in all your fields and returns the matching records in order of relevance) was so popular in Sesame 2 that we decided to put it right out on top. In Sesame 3, Quick Search is available in Add, Search and Update modes. It even lets you choose between getting a new result set and searching within the current records.

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Bharat_Naik Senior Member Members Offline Ever ready to learn and share Posts: 1202 Location: Chicago, Illinois Joined: Dec 16^th, 2003	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #10 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 2:34pm	Print Post
	This is really great. Since most of us like to hide the tree, having it in the open is definitely more usable. Thanks.


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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #11 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 3:32pm	Print Post
	Bharat_Naik wrote on Jul 7^th, 2011 at 2:34pm: This is really great. Since most of us like to hide the tree, having it in the open is definitely more usable. Thanks. Then you'll like that, about five minutes ago, Cow finished implementing a feature that optionally puts everything on the Tree/Button Menu onto a Commands menu up on the menu bar. So, if you want, you can hide the command area to save screen real estate without taking away all the functionality it provides.

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lksseven Full Member Offline Posts: 416 Location: Southwest Joined: Jan 26^th, 2009	Re: Sesame 3 Reply #12 - Jul 8^th, 2011 at 2:55am	Print Post
	the new XResultSet commands will 'rock the house'!

	Larry
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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - INI File Editor Reply #13 - Jul 13^th, 2011 at 3:33pm	Print Post
	Sesame uses an ini file to control a whole slew of options. In Sesame 3, the Server Admin Window includes a place where you can edit these options from inside Sesame.

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Hammer YaBB Administrator Lanticans Offline Fire bad. Tree pretty. Posts: 3436 Location: Ohio Joined: Nov 22^nd, 2002	Re: Sesame 3 - Reports Reply #14 - Jul 13^th, 2011 at 3:47pm	Print Post
	Mark is sitting next to me right now implementing a command that allows a Sesame 3 report to hook directly to an ASCII file. So you can run reports against a hierarchical or custom export from Sesame. Or from a different package entirely. Or from a file that your customer emailed you. Or that you got off the internet. Etc. In case you can�t tell, I�m really excited about this!

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