SQLBox
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Website contents: copyright © 1993-2001, Harry Doldersum.
April 27th, '05 - Updated version 1.2.3.14 to 1.3.1.15: an important maintenance release.
- We were made aware of a serious problem with the reporting functions, that could prevent proper execution on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems. On the systems in question, the length of the path name to the temporary storage directory (or folder) exceeds the length that QuSoft (the supplier of the library that has been used for the development of both the fixed reports and the User Report Designer, QRDesign) initially had anticipated.
This temporary storage directory is used to create the temporary metafile, that holds the report's actual information. On the systems where this error would occur, both the fixed reports and the reports in the User Report Designer would terminate after 2 or more pages with a message of "Access violation at ....", followed by a message "Metafile not valid".
With release V1.3.1.15, this problem has been corrected.
April 24th, '05 - Updated version 1.2.2.13 to 1.2.3.14: a maintenance release.
- A checking routine, added in V1.2.1.12 (which is verifying if the computer system has a printer driver installed or not, see below at june 30th, '03 notes) appeared to cause an error (i.e. runtime error 217, occuring at startup). It was noticed on a Windows XP system (without a printer driver), that this routine caused the application to terminate when it tried to verify the presence of the missing driver. (If a printer driver is installed & selected as the default driver, the routine worked correctly).
Since this error hadn't been noticed during earlier testing and hasn't been reported before by the users, it's occurance might be limited to certain specific conditions.
The mentioned routine has been enhanced to cope with the situation.
October 23rd, 2004 - Updated version 1.2.1.12 to 1.2.2.13: a maintenance release.
- Minor changes to SQLBox's registry entries and the toolbar.
June 30th, 2003 - Updated version 1.1.1.10 to 1.2.1.12: a new release.
- Added functionality to check for the presence of a default printer (driver) on the user's computer. Having a printer (driver) selected as the default on the computer system is required, since information is retrieved from the default driver for rendering the previews for all the printjobs. If your system did not have a default printer driver available, then this should generate one or more error messages. (This is added as a configurable option in the application's Preferences dialog).
- Added functionality to check for the maximum overall memory load (i.e.: system resource load). SQLBox will now monitor the overall memory load during initialisation and will issue a warning when a maximum limit is reached. (Since this limit is lightly to differ per machine, this has been implemented as a fully configurable option in the application's Preferences dialog. It's default setting is a value of 85% maximum overall memory load - if this load is reached, a user will be notified that his system is about to run out of resources. The user is then in control and can correct the issue, before their system runs into trouble).
A relatively large portion of our support emails are related to systems having insufficient resources available, causing problems for the application. Although most computers today tend to have sufficient physical ram memory installed, this issue can still occur if users install one or more large programs to remain running in the Windows taskbar at all times - even when they aren't used.
Please also see our free memory utility "RCheck - the Resource Checker", available from the "Knowledge Base" page at our site, at: http://www.doldersum.com/kbase/ .
- The internet support page, enclosed in the SQLBox setup, is now called in lowercase characters, since any seperate updates to this page would be retrieved from the website as such. Although most Windows operating systems will have no problem with this, Windows NT would issue an error.
May 14th, 2002 - Updated version 1.0.1.9 to 1.1.1.10: a maintenance release.
- Modified registration keys, to allow sales through other channels. (Existing users will receive an email with their updated registration key within a week from the release date).
- Other minor changes to program & documentation files.
November 14th, 2001 - NEW RELEASE.
- Release of the new SQLBox V1.0:
SQLBox V1.0: the Structured Query Language (SQL) assignment processor.
SQLBox is a very powerful data and/or database management tool. SQLBox will enable you to retrieve, edit or otherwise modify large amounts of database information with a single assignment.
Using SQLBox, you can retrieve, edit or otherwise modify large amounts of database information with a single assignment. Any viewable result data, is instantly displayed on a view grid. The contents of both the tab pages (the assignment and it's result) are instantly printable, by using the print assignments. SQLBox - simple, quick and easy.
SQLBox V1.0 costs US$30,=. (equals EURO 25,=. or NLG 55,=.). Upgrades are free, when downloaded from the support website, located at http://www.Doldersum.com.
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