Witango-Talk: msxml com object with witango 5?

2002-12-30 Thread [Gauthier]
Hi, I've some problem using COM objects with v5 of the server, I'm getting the following error message: Error An error occurred while processing your request: File: xslt1.taf Position: xml_Create_XML_DOM_Document_4_0 Class: Internal Main Error Number: -808 Cannot create native object. xmldoc

Re: Witango-Talk: msxml com object with witango 5?

2002-12-30 Thread Scott Cadillac
Hi Gauthier, Have you tried using MSXML's Free Threaded XML DOM Document object as opposed to the rental-threaded IXMLDOMDocument interface? Free threaded is recommend for web-applications, whereas rental-threaded is single threaded and meant for standalone Desktop applications I believe.

Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers

2002-12-30 Thread Bryan Hughes
Title: MacOSX ODBC drivers Needing OSX ODBC drivers for MS SQL Server and Oracle. Looked into the lite version from OpenLink but theyre $99 with a minimum purchase of 5 ($500). Does anyone know of a place that re-sells these by single purchase or know of alternative to OpenLink? I just want

Re: Witango-Talk: msxml com object with witango 5?

2002-12-30 Thread [Gauthier]
Hi Scott, thanks for the hint about the free threaded version, such information is good to know from the start ;) The attached file work correctly on v4 but not with v5 (the problem is right from the instanciation point), here is the debug result for each ones. I will also try on the beta list

RE: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers

2002-12-30 Thread Vicky Bagwalla
Title: MacOSX ODBC drivers Does anyone have Tango 2000 for Mac OSX that I could perhaps buy please? I am looking to connect to MS SQL Server as well as Pervasive SQL server through OSX. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers Try the beta list. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Mobile: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dss-db.com From: Bryan Hughes [EMAIL

RE: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers

2002-12-30 Thread Chuck Leavens
Does anyone have Tango 2000 for Mac OSX that I could perhaps buy please? I am looking to connect to MS SQL Server as well as Pervasive SQL server through OSX. Any help would be appreciated. I don't think Tango 2000 was ever available for OSX but only OS9 and earlier. For OSX you will want

Re: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: MacOSX ODBC drivers There is no such product. OSX came out long after T2K development stopped. Witango 5 for OSX is in Beta Witango should be able to give you an idea of the release date. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969

Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
Looking for suggestions. I have a community school application that allows users to sign up for courses on line. For 90% of the courses the max amount of classes is not critical. One or two over makes no difference. And class demand is not high. Therefore this system works fine. When a user

RE: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Tom Ferguson
well, if you think of this shopping cart as an actual shopping cart, you could reduce your class inventory as soon as it was put in the cart. So if Mrs. Smith put little Billy on the class list, it would be full and not allow her to pick that same class for Jill. Then she has the option of

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Bill Conlon
First, the hyperlink to a course registration is only active if the course is not full. Next, when you follow the hyperlink, it inserts a record with the course id. This is a place holder record that will be updated when the registration is complete. Any subsequent attempts to access the

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Nicholas Froome
Dan The other issue is with so many people signing up at once while a course is open when you 1st sign up by the time you get to the checkout it might be closed. I can deal with this last one I guess by checking the course count again before checkout and if the course is now closed show them

RE: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Ian Daniel
Do it the way the online ticket reservations systems work. That is, temporarily reserve the number of kids that she wants to sign up. So, the process goes like this: -- she logs on and checks to see if three spots for her three kids exist, or one spot, etc. .. whatever the case may be. -- she

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
I thought of that but what do I do then if they never finish the registration for some reason so the course is not paid for. Your right that I want to pull it out of inventory but how do I get it back in if they don't actually make a purchase. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799

Witango-Talk: filediscription/imagethumbnail tool

2002-12-30 Thread John Hollister
Here is a nice little tool that might com in hand. Running the tool there are a couple way to run this file and give diffent results scaleJH.exe d\inetpub\sample.jpg -help or /help ///may not be current scaleJH.exe d\inetpub\sample.exe fileinfo //will give file discription scaleJH.exe

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Atrix Wolfe
what about you make a timestamp when its reserved and right before your code where you count up how many are free, you remove all reservations which: current time - time stamp time limit - Original Message - From: Dan Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Nicholas Froome
I thought of that but what do I do then if they never finish the registration for some reason so the course is not paid for. Your right that I want to pull it out of inventory but how do I get it back in if they don't actually make a purchase. Let it disappear when the User variable expires?

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
The problem still is having some way to roll back that count if they don't complete the registration. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Mobile: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
How do I set that timer for 10 minutes. So I would have to change my course count when they sign up the kids then start some sort of timer and if it expires then I have to reset the count and delete the courses from the basket? -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
Way too long. Especially with so many people trying to sign up for courses. Something has to actually trigger the update to the database. Right now my solution is to check again on course count before they checkout and just change it to sorry full in their basket. Only problem is I can see how it

RE: Witango-Talk: Courses Full?

2002-12-30 Thread Tom Ferguson
try this: when they put the class in the shopping cart add a row to a table with their shopping cart ID for each course they purchased. put a timestamp in this table. Tell them they have 10 minutes (or whatever time you choose) when the number of rows in this table = number of slots available

Re: Witango-Talk: filediscription/imagethumbnail tool

2002-12-30 Thread [Gauthier]
Hi, Thanks for this small tool! the .net source code will be great too ;) Gauthier - Original Message - From: John Hollister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 9:26 PM Subject: Witango-Talk:

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full-Almost there

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
OK I have gone some of the way just need to deal with the 10 minute expiring issue. I reworked things so a timestamp is in the basket table for each entry. I also increment the count and the open_closed when someone just pick a course instead of waiting till they pay for it. If they remove the

RE: Witango-Talk: Courses Full-Almost there

2002-12-30 Thread Ian Daniel
Dan as I see it, you would only need to run the cron occasionally, such as daily, to clear out all basket items that were older than ten minutes at that point in time. In fact, in case someone takes a bit longer than ten minutes and you want to be gracious, just delete everything that is

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full-Almost there still more

2002-12-30 Thread Dan Stein
Nope Ian I don't think that will work and with so many courses to deal with it seems like mucking around in the basket table is not the best way to deal with this. I keep an accurate count in the courses table ( there are line items and invoices and the like but not relevant here) I think I do

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full-Almost there

2002-12-30 Thread Atrix Wolfe
you dont need cron...the only time you really care that the reservations expired are when you want to know how many open slots there are. So what you do is whenever you want to know how many slots are open (such as when someone logs in to make their own reservations) it is at that point that you

Re: Witango-Talk: Courses Full-Almost there

2002-12-30 Thread Atrix Wolfe
im replying to myself but an even more efficient method would be to remove the expired reservations when a user is trying to make reservations ONLY WHEN there are not enough free slots open. This would make lots less CPU load for you since you said the majority of your classes never even have

Witango-Talk: Pop-up

2002-12-30 Thread Fogelson, Steve
I have an application that generates email to rows in a table. The contents of the email include a link to unsubscribe. That link selects a taf to update a deleted field in the row related to that email. I would like a pop up window after the record is updated to verify to the user that their