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Installing DEPLAYER on Server share and running it from there.

No. You don't have to de-install anything ;-)

The problem is most likely that you get a space to much in front of the License key when you copy paste ;-)

You can even install (copy) the Player to a share on your server and run it from th...

Written by DataEase 24/06/25 at 13:51:41 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Hello! Apologies for the late response. Your question regarding running Player that shipped with Developer vs. standalone Player is an interesting one! On 5 machines I installed Developer first, then the player that shipped with it.&...

Written by Smart Print & Labels 24/06/25 at 11:25:14 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Re:Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

Hi all, may be new DataEase release instead ? It is more close to the subject matter … enough is enough tfor testing windows insider previews nevertheless!

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 22/06/25 at 06:22:38 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 5 days old.

Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

Encountered that issue. In my case it always happened when the PC had pending windows updates. Do the updates, and it will install correctly.

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Written by Josef Vella 21/06/25 at 07:31:58 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 5 days old.

Re:The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

This is possibly not the most recent version of 8.5?

The problem is mess with the Microsoft MSVC re-distributables. Download the latest version. Unistall the current version. Reboot the computer and install the latest version.

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Written by DataEase 20/06/25 at 15:05:09 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 5 days old.

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

I installed DataEase on a stand-alone laptop with Window 10 and i am getting the following error when I try open it;

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please
see the application...

Written by Godfrey 20/06/25 at 14:11:13 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 5 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Do you run the player that is shipped with Developer or do you use the dedicated Player install?

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Written by DataEase 18/06/25 at 13:58:24 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Does the procedures that crash by any chance use any CDF's or something like that?

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Written by DataEase 18/06/25 at 13:57:07 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Re:Two reports to one pdf file

Hi again Blessed.

The latest version of LE9 soon to be released will contain a DEOS("@pdfconcat") that will allow you to merge 8 PDFs into one PDF. We are also looking into further PDF manipulations like adding page numbers, an index etc.
Written by DataEase 17/06/25 at 15:08:42 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 10 days old.

Re:Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Hello. Thank you for your response. I believe we are running the most up-to-date version of each - 9.0.0.6835. We have only very recently downloaded and installed them. What I can't seem to work out is why these procedures work...

Written by Smart Print & Labels 17/06/25 at 13:47:45 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Re:Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Are you running the DEPLAYER that is shipped with Developer.

We have seen sometimes that doesn't work when Developer does and the full player works. The Player shipped with Developer is more a test version (even though eventually it will be a f...

Written by DataEase 17/06/25 at 12:01:40 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

Fatal Exception in deplayer-only

Hi. Not DE-savvy, so please forgive me. We recently migrated, thanks to one of DE's brilliant associates, over to LE9 from from LE 6.53. One niggle that we can't seem to fathom: when running certain procedures in deplayer,...

Written by Smart Print & Labels 12/06/25 at 09:05:09 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 3 days old.

LegEasy9 - Cool Features

Hi All,

Thought of sharing this video. ONLY available in LegEasy9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqPvuKk3zA

Regards
Arul
www.naitcs.com Written by Jeyarajah Arulrajah 03/06/25 at 17:53:56

Re:legeasy4dos menus form is inconsistent

This is not LegEasy4DOS related but standard DFD problem. You can only reorganize this from the System Menu so you need either to have included this in your user menus or you need to login with a system user that goes straight to the systems menu.
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Written by DataEase 02/06/25 at 10:58:49 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 25 days old.

Re:legeasy4dos menus form is inconsistent

Hi Joe,

If you have a User who does not automatically load a menu when they log in, try logging in as them and see if you can rectify the situation.

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Written by Peter Birney, PB Associates 29/05/25 at 16:58:00 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 25 days old.

legeasy4dos menus form is inconsistent

Hey all, we had an old database running on dataease 4.5 and do not have the old dease.exe to run it. When trying to open the application in legeasy4dos I get a "Menus form is inconsistent" Please reorgainze this form. I can't f...

Written by Joe Jixon 28/05/25 at 19:47:55 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 25 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Change Text Colour

I will look at DE9 again - looking at it last time I could see the potential for moving forward with it, but must say its scary with so many hidden Ifs and omls" hidden all over the place inour program , plus Im not sure if I will be ab...

Written by Handles 29/04/25 at 09:50:12 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 59 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Change Text Colour

There is a lot of customers that has stayed in DE6 due to problems moving forward due to exstensive use of CDF's and hacks to get things to work "exactly" as they want to.

But we see an increase in people that has stayed in DE6 that now simply...

Written by DataEase 29/04/25 at 09:31:08 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 59 days old.

Re:Re:Change Text Colour

Thanks for the reply, I will give this a try - hopefully all goes well, I have tried the Version VE9 but some of the thing I have program in DE6.53 just will not work in DE9 - and its a very large database too large to start changing thing unfort...

Written by Handles 28/04/25 at 17:04:45 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 59 days old.

Re:Change Text Colour

Download SampleWritten by DataEase 28/04/25 at 11:53:24 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 59 days old.

Change Text Colour

6.53..

I want to change the text colour in a filed from black to red if the filled = 0, so something like ,

(if field2 = 0 tex.colour RED else text.colour Black)

any help please in correct format

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Written by Handles 27/04/25 at 09:35:31 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 59 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Thank You, Dear Suzanne!

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 17/04/25 at 22:34:35 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Two reports to one pdf file

Hi Blessed!

There is many tools online where you can do this for free.

There are ways already you can achieve this with ExecDQL by calling DQL's as part of other DQL's. We will get back into this later on but for now you can only generat...

Written by DataEase 07/04/25 at 18:30:32 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 10 days old.

Two reports to one pdf file

Is it possible to combine two different reports to print to one pdf file?

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Written by BLESSED SHUMBA 06/04/25 at 15:58:54 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 10 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

may be ..sanctions ;) U r welcome ! at Your service <3

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 21/03/25 at 18:56:50 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

It did not accept the Cyrillic ... Bol'shoye spasibo!

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Written by Suzanne Michelle 21/03/25 at 16:40:12 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! That's exactly what I needed!

??????? ???????!

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Written by Suzanne Michelle 21/03/25 at 16:02:48 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Calculating Number of Months

not bad

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 21/03/25 at 12:24:35 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 98 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 21/03/25 at 12:20:34 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Publisher of DataEase ...

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 20/03/25 at 18:26:30 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Calculating Number of Months

... assumes stop-date >= start-date

if year(stop-date) = year(start-date)
then Months = month(stop-date) minus month(start-date) plus 1

Written by Suzanne Michelle 20/03/25 at 15:38:26 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 98 days old.

Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Who is "Ulrik and his great DataEase" ... what does it do?

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Written by Suzanne Michelle 20/03/25 at 15:22:53 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

THANK YOU, DE Customer Care Team!! The first menu is what I am looking for ... any more samples like that?

I cannot easily download the software and use it here at work, very complicated environ.
First off, would it run on (a) Win 7 PC? (b) W...

Written by Suzanne Michelle 20/03/25 at 14:39:01 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Dear Suzanne! Thi is the screenshot from Microsoft Lumia 950. The software is DE 4.53 EN

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 20/03/25 at 13:47:31 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Hi, dear Suzanne! Everything You need :) i.e. working DE 4.53 SQL is here on this IBM monster. Also it is on Microsoft Lumia 950 .. see my cover photo on Linkedin and ..on S...

Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 20/03/25 at 06:56:21 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

Written by DataEase 19/03/25 at 23:43:27 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

I'm an old, old, old DE user (4.53? I think) ... I need some menu screen shots please!

I am doing a legacy app retrospective for my development group at NYC Transit. "My" application started life about 30 years ago in DataEase, is now in Oracle, and is winding down, being replaced by another application. I actually have all my DE code /...

Written by Suzanne Michelle 19/03/25 at 22:16:04 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 71 days old.

Re:Re:User view Toolbar in Design Time

Hi, all ! The forum activity and order to fix things weve saw earlier indicates in new DE download soon … thx a lot! Glory to DataEase team!

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 06/03/25 at 18:19:00 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 113 days old.

Re:User view Toolbar in Design Time

Written by DataEase 06/03/25 at 06:59:48 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 113 days old.

User view Toolbar in Design Time

Written by DataEase 06/03/25 at 06:56:32 - 2 people have commented. The newsest comment is 113 days old.

Re:Problems with Toolbars etc. disappearing

Catalog.html

Whats new shouldn?t do anything to your overall settings but the settings in DataEase is a ?mess? after years of moving things around ;-)

The...

Written by DataEase 05/03/25 at 14:59:53 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Problems with Toolbars etc. disappearing

I got the What's New app running and found it useful—thanks!

However, I'm not sure if it has changed a setting on my system. Since using it, I no longer have window controls on form windows. The...

Written by eric@portlandtraffic.co.uk 05/03/25 at 14:58:38 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 114 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

It's any DataEase user. When in Developer, I can open any form but when I open a menu, it hangs again. But the same menu is used on every body elses PC. When I logged the user out of the PC and used another user, it loaded fine.

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Written by EBISS UK LTD 03/03/25 at 18:56:35 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

If its the DataEase users when you login to DataEase it kind of doesn't make sense at all. I would simply create a new user for him in DataEase rather than spend any time trying to figure it out.

If its the network user then there is some acces...

Written by DataEase 03/03/25 at 18:24:52 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

Yes on one PC. Today I uninstalled both versions. Then logged the user out and logged in as a different user. Installed and it worked. Went back to the original user and it doesn't work.

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Written by EBISS UK LTD 03/03/25 at 17:20:58 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

On one computer only?

You are talking about inside DataEase like user being medium3 or low2?

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Written by DataEase 03/03/25 at 15:06:04 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

Developer works but wont load with a non high security status account.

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Written by EBISS UK LTD 28/02/25 at 11:23:01 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

So works on most machines but not one... Hmmm.

Is there anything different?

Different Windows etc?

Not working at all is normally easy, doesn't work in one setting is hard... Does it work in Developer on this particula...

Written by DataEase 26/02/25 at 14:50:58 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

Thank you. For clarity, I've used DataEase since 1989 and set-up many applications. We have the player running on everybody's PC and in the user detail, is the start-up Document, in this case M_Main. It runs for every user without issue.&n...

Written by EBISS UK LTD 25/02/25 at 13:01:17 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

The player.exe is a work in progress and the one that is shipped with the Developer is basically a preview of application tool rather than the full monty.

We intend to include a "catalog" type startup page for Player too, but more like an appli...

Written by DataEase 25/02/25 at 12:41:30 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Difficulties installing on colleagues workstation

We are running LegEasy6835 and on a new user machine, we can't log her in. I can download developer and it will log me in as Admin. When I try and login as a user, it doesn't open. I run the current version of player, and the application d...

Written by EBISS UK LTD 25/02/25 at 11:52:14 - 8 people have commented. The newsest comment is 116 days old.

Re:Calculating Number of Months

Written by DataEase 17/02/25 at 16:27:41 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 98 days old.

Calculating Number of Months

Can you please assist me with a formula to calculate number for months say from 01/05/1999 to 31/08/2025

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Written by matarusetafadzwa@yahoo.com 13/02/25 at 13:38:17 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 98 days old.

Re:Re:DE9 Email configuration.

Every major SMTP provider is changing to OAUTH2 which to be honest is a nightmare...like most "secure" things are.

The idea is that servers is supposed to authenticate each other and only receive/forward mail from certified servers.

SMTP...

Written by DataEase 31/01/25 at 11:01:09 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

Re:DE9 Email configuration.

Hi,thanks for your help on this one. I've now got it working, I abandoned the yahoo email settings and used my own BT email instead. Bingo! it all started working. I'm looking forward to the new email setup when ts ready. <...

Written by Eric 29/01/25 at 08:18:06 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

Re:Catalogue not shown

Download Catalog.html

Some further digging in old documentation we found that there is another way to tell the WebView what emulation you want. Its a M...

Written by DataEase 27/01/25 at 21:49:08 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Catalogue not shown

The problem is that the WebView object used in LE9 and many other tools is based on IE11. WebView2 which we use in DE10 is based on edge.

We have retained the IE11 object in LE9 simply because its much easier to work with for our users th...

Written by DataEase 27/01/25 at 19:18:06 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Re:What is New in LE9 sample.

GREAT! thx a lot. GLORY TO DataEase team!

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 27/01/25 at 18:26:25 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Export Group/Count data to text file

undoubtedly new DE will solve the problem NEVERTHELESS

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 27/01/25 at 18:25:12 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Catalogue not shown

Hi all. It is better TO wait for A new RELEASE of DE ... undoubtetly

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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 27/01/25 at 18:23:12 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Catalogue not shown

Another Windows update and the same thing occurs.

I am now using Version 6835.

I perform the Windows update, go into LegEasy9, open a database and the same things occurs (See attached .png file).

I go into several different data...

Written by Peter Birney, PB Associates 26/01/25 at 16:17:16 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Export Group/Count data to text file

Doubt it will remove your error but it is convenient to include the column header with delimiter

.form header

Key`Count

.items

@f[1,1]`@f[1,2]

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Written by Sam 24/01/25 at 05:51:18 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:Export Group/Count data to text file

Yes,

Below is the script I have tried. Thank you for responding.

for Applications ;

list records

Key in groups ;

Key : Count .

export to "C:\Users\RainsJC\Desktop\Audits\Keys.txt" .

.form header

.items Written by Bolt-on-Trailers 24/01/25 at 01:13:04 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Export Group/Count data to text file

Does the DQL have " .end " in the last line?

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Written by Sam 24/01/25 at 00:49:27 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:LE9 .6835 Change in DQL editor type-ahead search and Tab behaviour?

Anyone else seen this?

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Written by Sam 24/01/25 at 00:31:24 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 154 days old.

Export Group/Count data to text file

Hi All,

Can I export the Group and Count data to a text file? The following script gives me the error in the attached file. I'm not sure how the script for the required TableView Name (see attached) should appear.

for Applicat...

Written by Bolt-on-Trailers 23/01/25 at 17:02:20 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.

Re:Re:What is New in LE9 sample.

DEOS in DEBook
Scroll down to @EmailSend and you will see how the function works.
Written by DataEase 20/01/25 at 15:24:13 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

Re:What is New in LE9 sample.

Thanks for including the whats new files I think I'm on the right lines however even the whats new examples assumes the Email Configuration is valid and this is where I think I'm going wrong. Is there a way I can tell if it is valid ? Do you have a da...
Written by Eric 20/01/25 at 14:57:52 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

What is New in LE9 sample.

Download What is New LE9

Here is the latest increment of the What is New in LE9.

You can download and use that to test these things.

It is b...
Written by DataEase 17/01/25 at 11:18:38 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

Re:DE9 Email configuration.

Hi Eric.

We are amending the email function as so many SMTP servers now demand a more secure authentication due to spam etc. SMTP is a fire and forget protocol which is a big problem as people can actually very easily use any server to forward...
Written by DataEase 17/01/25 at 11:15:29 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

DE9 Email configuration.

Hi, I'm trying to email pdf documents directly from Dataease. I have set the email configuration to a yahoo account I created for the purpose. I have an icon with a blue spinning gear which I assume means something (hopefully good). I was h...
Written by Eric 13/01/25 at 15:18:43 - 7 people have commented. The newsest comment is 147 days old.

DIW create utility

Attached is an example app containing a generic utility to automatically create a DIW script and copy all required files to a folder.

This is useful for where one or more users are working on one or more DEV app copies to be ab...
Written by Sam 08/01/25 at 13:21:09

Re:Re:help please

ok. thx a lot and best wishes for all and Glory Slava to DataEase team! <3
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 06/01/25 at 13:28:13 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 172 days old.

Re:help please

its been fixed. Maybe not put license keys like this on an open forum...
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Written by DataEase 06/01/25 at 12:55:15 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 172 days old.

Searching for a job opportunity

Hello, my name is George and I have been authorized directly by Ulrik Jacob Hoegh-Krohn to post this thread on the forum.
I'm very experienced when it comes to developing in DataEase; I started working with the application since March 2013 when...
Written by George Cristian Jiglau 02/01/25 at 19:32:11

LE9 .6835 Change in DQL editor type-ahead search and Tab behaviour?

In LE9 .6835 in DQL editor pick list the type-ahead context search will only find the first character.
In previous versions in the DQL editor Tables pick list a table named "ABCDE" can be found by typing 'abc' .
Now the auto...
Written by Sam 16/12/24 at 22:48:08 - 1 people have commented. The newsest comment is 154 days old.

Re:Re:Understand index and virtual field use in DataEase

ps. 1990s practice with field indexes was described in volume 2 of de 4.* manual devoted to dba & applications development. limitations were up to 8 indexed fields on a single form. only necessary fields were to be inedexed. new recommendations he...
Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 25/11/24 at 05:39:17 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:DE8.5 Textout UTF-8 format

Hi, Sam! Very useful case! Thx. May be A and B are different a bit ? What about text format of C which is the combination of A and B ? Thank You.
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 22/11/24 at 20:13:06 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 217 days old.

Re:Re:Re:DE8.5 Textout UTF-8 format

As noted in the initial post the server system locale settings were checked and nothing has changed.
User logon is via Published Remote App with Active directory credentials.
The system locale settings for the user session are se...
Written by Sam 22/11/24 at 15:01:16 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 217 days old.

Re:Re:DE8.5 Textout UTF-8 format

Written by DataEase 22/11/24 at 12:23:04 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 217 days old.

Re:DE8.5 Textout UTF-8 format

From 7.2.2 help
RDRRDAAA.INI
ANSI_CHARSET
ApplicationCharset= 0
DEFAULT_CHARSET
ApplicationCharset=1
Default for DE8.5 is ApplicationCharset= 0
Changing setting to ApplicationCharset=1 does not make a...
Written by Sam 22/11/24 at 04:36:56 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 217 days old.

DE8.5 Textout UTF-8 format

We have a DE85 app that writes text files using textout / textoutln on a MS2012 server.
Up until 2024-10-30 the files created were UTF-8 format.
For some unknown reason as from 2024-10-31 the files are ANSI format.
Nothing was changed on t...
Written by Sam 22/11/24 at 03:57:40 - 4 people have commented. The newsest comment is 217 days old.

Re:Re:LE9 copy special FIXED

Thank you
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Written by Sam 19/11/24 at 23:49:19 - 11 people have commented. The newsest comment is 220 days old.

Re:Understand index and virtual field use in DataEase

thx. that was tested with dfd even in 1990s ...
blackouts due to the war impose low power consumption & high productivity of software here in Ukraine now...
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 18/11/24 at 15:10:04 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Understand index and virtual field use in DataEase

Indexes is mostly "abused" in DataEase. People think the more the better, but they will only work if used right.

As a general rule indexes will make searching faster and saving slower.

But...

DataEase will only use an index...
Written by DataEase 17/11/24 at 15:08:11 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

das ist fantastisch! what about of reindexing time in the case then ? for sure, DataEase isn't a simple mechanism and the golden rule of mechanics is not about of 7000000 records with amount of fields more than 1... thx a lot for the this amazin...
Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 14/11/24 at 12:56:43 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

The problems is always related to change. If you start of developing a system you will design it so it runs OK with the limitations you have at the time. Then when it goes slow, you will clean the system/delete unnecessary data, buy better hardware et...
Written by DataEase 13/11/24 at 21:17:43 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

LegEasy 9 Developer ver. LE9.6835 Released: 13/11/24

super speedy! thx a lot!
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 13/11/24 at 20:35:24

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

agree, yup, this is not my personal opinion BUT! this is not old good days too. This is present day trend. SSD's productivities tends to RAM's ones.
Modern OSes are handling hardware equipped with wise chips and present day operating system...
Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/24 at 10:40:43 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

Ihor!

We have talked about this before.

You are entitled to your opinions etc, but we don't need it as a comment on every genuine request for help or information.

Please don't comment on posts about the good old days a...
Written by DataEase 12/11/24 at 09:19:05 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

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Hi All!
For sure, no VMware, no windows, only DataEase OS, shortly DOS.
No disks, no files and etc.
enough is enough!
Only RAM ... a little ROM as a vintage device for museum purposes.
where are di...
Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 12/11/24 at 08:04:24 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

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So to increase speed:

Consult VMWare resources on how to increase speed on I/O.
Check if there is Virus software monitoring file access on your Application Drive. If there is EXCLUDE it. DataEase files does not contain viruses and...
Written by DataEase 11/11/24 at 16:04:59 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

When you run DataEase on a shared file server the "challenge" is file access and throughput i.e I/O.

So the main problem is disk access, not memory etc.

So quick disks, controllers etc. is what is the crux of the matter.

it...
Written by DataEase 11/11/24 at 15:50:02 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

Hi and thank you for the feedback .
Are there any recommendations running Dataease on a Virtual server? reserving cpu and memory , exposing the VM to the physical host hardware as much as possible?
I can understand the key is i...
Written by Andrei St 11/11/24 at 14:54:43 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Read DataEase Files

There is no tool that open them and export the content as such.

We have a service on our shop where we export all the data in an application.
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Written by DataEase 11/11/24 at 11:44:57 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 228 days old.

Re:Read DataEase Files

DataEase for Windows 5.x and before
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 08/11/24 at 16:48:34 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 228 days old.

Re:Read DataEase Files

DataEase for Windows 5.x and before
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Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 08/11/24 at 16:48:34 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 228 days old.

Read DataEase Files

Hello please could someone recommend the best solution for reading one of these files? this is for an application used in the 1990's - we want to move it to SQL.
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Written by AndrewRH10_2024 08/11/24 at 16:10:18 - 3 people have commented. The newsest comment is 228 days old.

Re:Re:Virtual server configuration

IT departments ..those were mentioned in the earlier discussion by Sam Bird about of LE9 productivity
as the ... crowd of sysops & sysadmins from ancient IBM360 times ... where is windows nightmares were seeded from.
as to N...
Written by Ihor Zakharchenko 08/11/24 at 11:34:37 - 14 people have commented. The newsest comment is 214 days old.

Re:Re:Catalogue not shown

I have just re-booted my pc and it now works as expected.
Previously, after I had downloaded the latest version I had gone into two different databases.
In each case, I had only to enter a name but no password.
In each case agai...
Written by Peter Birney, PB Associates 08/11/24 at 11:01:35 - 6 people have commented. The newsest comment is 151 days old.