filePro Survivor CD's

[John Esak]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Tony Ryder
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:53 AM
> To: FPlist
> Subject: filePro Survivor CD's
>
>
> Received the cd's early in the week and started at the beginning cd.
>
> Even though I have used filePro for many years and have learnt so
> much from the fproom since it has been available, I still picked up
> a few pointers.
>
> These are truly a great way to learn filePro, John must have talked
> for hours creating these movies. They are very easy to follow and
> take you step by step through setting up an application from scratch.
>
> I have also transferred the movies to my palm one treo650 smart phone
> so I can play and listen to the movies when I am out of the office.
>
> One little thing I found after playing a lesson was that the html
> page did not display the last movie played until I had finished
> viewing the next lesson or reopen the cd.
>
> Tony Ryder
>
Hey, glad you finally got them.  Sending to Australia is truly like sending
to OZ... you know the real one, green castle, guards and all. :-)

You bring up an important point. It has been driving me rather crazy, too.
Maybe someone on the list knows why it is happening. If, on the web, you
visit a link, that link immediately becomes the "visited link color" you
have set in your preferences... (Tools->internet options->colors). All is
well and good. Same with the CD's, EXCEPT, the visited link color (which I
have specified in the page layout) does not instantly appear, but rather
only pops onto the visited link when you click on the *next* unvisited link.
This is a pain in the butt... and rather confusing. You have just watched
lesson 3 and come back to the main page. There, you see Lesson 1 and Lesson
2 in the visited link color.... You should see Lesson 3 also in that color,
but it is still in its nice blue "unvisited" color. If you are smart enough
to remember you just saw Lesson 3 and click on Lesson 4... you can watch
Lesson 3 immediately jump into the visited link color it should have already
been!

Anyone know why this is happening?  For that matter anyone know where this
visited/unvisited link color info is stored?  In a cookie somewhere? Must be
a file created somewhere with the actual links or something, or the links
are just stored somewhere in a huge registry cache that gets checked after
each click?  Regardless, it is so strange that the visited link color only
gets applied after the next link is chosen when running from CD. Don't
understand it.

Also, thanks for the notification (via our FP room chat the other day) about
Lesson 22 in the Chapter about triggers. It is/was definitely out of place.
I have fixed it. Not a big enough problem to worry about since the material
is useful and it's the same lesson, just should have been a few Lessons
later I think. I'm keeping a good version history on this product and as I
release newer versions, I'll update things a bit.

I am so impressed that you can watch and hear these things on your Trio-650
phone!  That thing is purely amazing. Not only can you do your accounting
and billing on it, along with printing the invoices! But, now you can
actually take the filePro Survivor Series mobile and listen to it on your
way to work in the morning! Please don't watch it... watch the road!!!! :-)
Don't want to hear any loud crashes coming out of Australia!! :-)  Don't
want to lose my best beta-tester!

John