filePro Survivor CD's

[John Esak]

Hmmm, much as I HATE to say this... I got a note from someone privately who
says  their FireFox browser does not exhibit the problem. His links turn
color correctly just as they are hit.  Hmmm...   :-)

John


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of John Esak
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 2:52 PM
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> Subject: RE: filePro Survivor CD's
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
>
>
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