| <Ulli> | OK, so "Hi" to everybody, now its official :-) |
| <Ulli> | I am one of the main developers and pres. of R.O.M. logicware GmbH, |
| <Ulli> | (corp.), which is the company doing Papyrus since 1992, since 1995 for OS/2. |
| <Ulli> | since 1997 for WIN - only to make clear that we haven't been on WIN |
| <Ulli> | before OS/2 :-) |
| <Ulli> | Papyrus OFFICE Demo Version 8.17 OS/2 is out on our homepage |
| <Ulli> | http://www.rom-logicware.com tonight, so you all can have a look on it |
| <Ulli> | while listening. |
| <Ulli> | The demo archive is only 2.7 MB ... |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: "OS/2 signals to Papyrus in system call..." error messages all the time now after I deleted papyrus.ini :((( |
| <Ulli> | So I have to thank the guys of the VOICE for the invitation to this session :-) |
| <Pilot> | Looks like I'd better to reinstall |
| <Ulli> | Pilot: Hm ... |
| <Pilot> | Abraxas: be VERY careful :) |
| <Ulli> | And when you try to make a new papyrus.ini by selecting "save options" |
| <Ulli> | in the "options" menu? |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: errors fly again :( |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: it kinda works after i dismiss all of the error windows tho |
| <Ulli> | just trying the same, no problem ... |
| <KC> | Hi All |
| <Ulli> | which one of the two options did you select, pilot? |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: but i'd probably try re-installing |
| <Ulli> | Hi, KC :-) |
| <Abraxas> | Pilot what sort of errors are you getting? |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: Options->Save options |
| <Ulli> | pilot: just keep your fingers away from _report.pap ;-) |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: is there another one? |
| <KC> | Sorry I am a little late, did the session start yet |
| <Ulli> | another what? |
| <Pilot> | Abraxas: something about DevCap and some weird code after |
| <Ulli> | KC: Just a minor problem fixing, but you may interfere with any questions :-) |
| <Projects> | KC: yes, it started. Go sit in the corner :-) |
| <crimso> | Ulli: Can you tell us a bit about the new features? I saw the session at |
| <Pilot> | Abraxas: DevQueryCaps UNK 207 C E |
| <crimso> | Warpstock Europe last year and I'm especially interested in the database part. |
| <Ulli> | pilot: ah. looks like problems with russian codepages. I already told |
| * | *[ ] * madodel has changed the topic to (Speakup with Ulli Ramp of R.O.M.Logicware in Progress) |
| <Abraxas> | Pilot OK ... I haerd of that ....but I haven't seen it |
| <Ulli> | you that we will have a look at proper codepage handling within the next |
| <Ulli> | weeks, OK? :-) |
| <Ulli> | UNK is a unicode message. |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: no prob, i'd love to be a beta-tester :) |
| <KC> | Ulli, the announcement in the newsgroup said you are shipping. Is that true? |
| <Ulli> | crimso: new since? :-) |
| <Ulli> | kc: Yes. I did it two hours ago. :-) |
| <Pilot> | KC: i even have the darn thing installed :) |
| <crimso> | Ulli: new in version 8... |
| <Pilot> | KC: half an hour ago :)) |
| <KC> | Great, Is the demo ready yet? |
| <Ulli> | pilot: you can be sure that we will do much more unicode improvement, because |
| * | Projects is downloading it, but it'll be well after the meeting before it finally gets here (slooow dialup) |
| <Ulli> | we plan a Japanese and an Arabian/Hebrew version, so we have to :-) |
| <Ulli> | kc: demo is on our homepage. |
| <Ulli> | www.rom-logicware.com. |
| <Projects> | www.rom-logicware.com |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: OK, so really count me in for any testing/bug reports |
| <KC> | Wonderfull, here I go to it ... |
| <Ulli> | I already do, pilot :-) |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: or any help i can provide |
| <Ulli> | russian version, maybe? |
| <madodel> | You will support Right to Left entry? |
| <Ulli> | madodel: we already do. |
| <Ulli> | you can give a paragraph the property that text is written from left to right. |
| <madodel> | Cool, didn't know that |
| <Ulli> | but as I already said to our russian friend pilot, we have to improve our |
| * | *[ ] * Signoff phil (phil) |
| <Ulli> | unicode support |
| * | *[ ] * madodel has changed the topic to (Speakup with Ulli Ramps of R.O.M.Logicware in Progress) |
| <Ulli> | so that hebrew, arabian, russian stuff is handled properly. |
| <Ulli> | at the moment papyrus internally is already unicode enabled fully, but |
| <Ulli> | we have to set the hook for OS/2. |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: we have a special team of developers set up here to help other developers to implement support Russian in their products (if they wish of course) |
| <crimso> | Ulli: new features in version 8 compared to 7.5(?) - the one presented at Warpstock Europe |
| <Ulli> | we wish - why not. :-) |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: i can get in contact with them, since i am not a unicode expert myself |
| <Ulli> | sorry, crimso, lots of questions here :-) |
| <Ulli> | new since 7.5: the database has become relational, totally. lots of tiny |
| <Ulli> | add ons to the database. calculation possibilities, string manipulations |
| <Ulli> | in the database and in the integrated spreadsheet. |
| <Ulli> | HyperOFFICE, of course. |
| <Ulli> | does anybody know a wordprocessor being able of setting a special type of |
| <Ulli> | hyperlinks directly out of a text document to a dataset of your database? |
| <warspite> | Good morning Ulli, all: Has your database got a .DBF Import feature? |
| <Ulli> | papyrus can. We think of that as being new, so we gave it a name: |
| <Ulli> | HyperOFFICE. |
| <Ulli> | warspite: yes. |
| <warspite> | You beauty! |
| <Ulli> | simply yes. we already tested it with several dbase derivats, and they |
| <crimso> | Ulli: sounds good! |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: hurray, reinstall cured all errors! |
| <Ulli> | all worked (OK, some of them after some hours of work O;-)) |
| <Ulli> | Pilot: dont touch _report.pap again ;-) |
| * | Pilot now proceeds with MS Office crap importing... |
| <Ulli> | crimso: even ibm works phonebooks shall work via dbase import, I have been |
| <Ulli> | told (was too busy to try on my own, the last days X-)). |
| <Pilot> | Ulli: i will zip the whole installation before experimenting further :) |
| <Ulli> | Pilot: X-) |
| <JT^> | What about input filters for the unmentionable W*RD? |
| <Ulli> | further database improvements since V.7.5 at Warpstock Europe has been |
| <Ulli> | (just a moment, JT :-)) the file management within the database: |
| <Ulli> | Papyrus BASE (the database part of Papyrus OFFICE) can handle every file |
| <Sector> | Hi mandie
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