Lack of default printer crashing omnis

Wed Feb 16 18:30:35 UTC 2022

Hi Jock and Scotte,

Jock scared me with the concern over Graph2.  One of the things I had never thought to check on is the graphing performance in 10.2.  Sure enough, there seems to be an issue.  I wish we could show pictures here, but we have a Practice Performance window that graphs many different data points about the sales and profitability of the Vet Practice.  Two of the graphs on this window are exploding toroid's and they do not seem to be working at all in 10.2.

I am going to follow up with support on this.

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Michael Mantkowski
ClienTrax Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: omnisdev-en On Behalf Of Scotte Meredith
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:43 PM
To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
Subject: Re: Lack of default printer crashing omnis

There are not a lot of changes in Graph2. You can use oBrowser with htmlcontrols to put graphs in with a lot more options than Graphs2. There was a recent technote on the Omnis website about it.

We've also implemented the D3JS library (d3js.org <http://d3js.org/>) in our application, but aren't ready to share the details yet. Some pretty cool stuff with interactive data visualizations.

> On Feb 16, 2022, at 9:19 AM, Jock Philip <jock at visionchips.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Michael,
> 
> Most of the Unicode issues have been eliminated with changes that have been made over the past few years in anticipation of this. The database connectivity isn't an issue as it's all Oracle and no DML. There may be some issues with some third party tools that we use but we can test those out. I do have concerns about graphs though. I tried to use Graph2, or whatever it was named, some time ago and there was some functionality that was missing so I couldn't. I'm sure 10.2 has even more changes. 
> 
> I would love to make the move so we may have to make that jump.
> 
> Jock
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> Jock Philip       [jock at visionchips.com] Vision Chips, Inc.
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> http://www.visionchips.com/
>  
> Developers of OBserver OB/GYN Ultrasound Reporting and Image Archiving 
> System
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> On Behalf 
> Of Michael Mantkowski
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 4:51 AM
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> Subject: RE: Lack of default printer crashing omnis
> 
> Hi Jock,
> 
> We have been working on transitioning our 4.3x program to 10.x for a couple year now.  In reality, it has been ready for most of that time since we eliminated any of the old code from Omnis7 concerning hash variables that are no longer supported in event handling.  It really did not take all that long to that.  So maybe you should consider just jumping up to 10.2.  Of course, if you are non Unicode, you need to look at all your text editing and "REGIST / CALL statements you may be using as well.  Most will require a little modification to work with the Unicode versions.  But I think you would need to do this for any version past 4.3 anyway.
> 
> Our biggest challenge has been getting the SQL bridge working so that we have a system that supports both the DML database that all our current customers use and also support a move to PostGres.  
> 
> It is so close that I can taste it.  But each time we get one issue taken care of another one seems to pop up.  List fields saved in the data have been a particular issue that seems to keep popping up.  We are hopeful we can have the last of these issues taken care of soon.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en On Behalf Of Jock Philip
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 1:27 AM
> To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Subject: RE: Lack of default printer crashing omnis
> 
> Thanks Doug,
> 
> Totally agree. It's more a case of how far can we go without retesting every single line code and breaking some key functionality. Mac hasn't been an option for many years so it's purely Windows based plus some other third-party tools that absolutely need to be compatible. 
> 
> Jock
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jock Philip       [jock at visionchips.com] Vision Chips, Inc.
> 888.517.7779 x 3563
> http://www.visionchips.com/
> 
> Developers of OBserver OB/GYN Ultrasound Reporting and Image Archiving 
> System
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> On Behalf 
> Of Doug Easterbrook via omnisdev-en
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 9:27 PM
> To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
> Cc: Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com>
> Subject: Re: Lack of default printer crashing omnis
> 
> hi Jock.
> 
> Unless you have any real limitations (eg still need to run on high sierra or earlier of OSX), then I’d suggest to go to the latest 10.2 which runs on win 7 and up, and Mojave and up, including the new M1 chip.
> 
> there are, of course, programming and testing effort of the latest omnis version..  but I din’t think I’d stop halfway.   especially if you have users on mac.
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
>> On February 15, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Jock Philip <jock at visionchips.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Alex,
>> 
>> That helps us to narrow it down a bit. Will forget about the studio 5xx series.
>> 
>> Jock
>> 
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Jock Philip       [jock at visionchips.com] Vision Chips, Inc.
>> 888.517.7779 x 3563
>> http://www.visionchips.com/
>> 
>> Developers of OBserver OB/GYN Ultrasound Reporting and Image 
>> Archiving System
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> On Behalf 
>> Of Alex Clay via omnisdev-en
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:29 PM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
>> Cc: Alex Clay <aclay at mac.com>
>> Subject: Re: Lack of default printer crashing omnis
>> 
>> I'll second Doug's experience. We were on 3.3, then 5.1 for quite some time and this was a guaranteed way to crash Omnis.
>> 
>> This problem stopped occurring when we moved to 8.0 and I haven't seen it since.
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2022, at 20:44, Doug Easterbrook via omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> hi Jock.
>>> 
>>> I haven’t seen this issue for ages —  I don’t recall it in Studio 5.2.3 which we used for a number of years before going all in on 10.2 in the past year.
>>> 
>>> Printer stuff — I “think" thats omnis core so any correction would be a more recent version of omnis.    
>>> 
>>> I don’t know what platform you are on.. but if you wanted to find out, you could always install a more recent omnis and see if it still crashes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Doug Easterbrook
>>> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
>>> mailto:doug at artsman.com
>>> http://www.artsman.com
>>> Phone (403) 650-1978
>>> 
>>>> On February 15, 2022, at 5:16 PM, Jock Philip <jock at visionchips.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I tried twice to start a new thread and my posts never show up on the list so I'm hijacking somebody else's thread and trying to respond to that to see if it shows up this time.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In earlier versions of Omnis, including Studio 4.3, the program would often crash if there was no default printer defined or if there was a problem with the default printer. Can anybody tell me if this has been resolved in later versions? If so, what version eliminated that issue? Is there maybe a DLL that could be copied over to a prior version to stop this from happening?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Jock
>>>> 
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> Jock Philip       [jock at visionchips.com] Vision Chips, Inc.
>>>> 888.517.7779 x 3563
>>>> http://www.visionchips.com/
>>>> 
>>>> Developers of OBserver OB/GYN Ultrasound Reporting and Image 
>>>> Archiving System
>>>> 
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