A Question for Software Developers
Is it that difficult to build into the software code of iWeb an ability to add HTML inside a text box so that the result is a textbox-constrained HTML widget?
This way, two options for HTML would be available. One, the current widget option and, two, this text-box option. The latter of which would actually place the HTML inside the same page the text box is located as opposed to the former option which places it on a separate page.
Is it that difficult to build into the software code of iWeb an ability to add HTML inside a text box so that the result is a textbox-constrained HTML widget?
yes, it is difficult to do so because of the way iweb structures its elements in xml.
you need to see in iweb xml to understand that it will take a huge revamp to accommodate that.
The latter of which would actually place the HTML inside the same page the text box is located as opposed to the former option which places it on a separate page.
this can be done but you need to have controls from inside iweb, this takes understanding of how iweb works so you can dynamically manipulate what is on the page.
see my example here:
http://www.cyclosaurus.com/Home/CyclosaurusBlog/Entries/2009/8/11Pieces_of3.html#7
look at the page source and you won't see any code for drop-down menu nor CSS nor javascript.
all the code is added to my example with my widgets.
There are NO non-apple developers on this site?
they ain't here, but lurking....
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Player size question for player developers
Question for all player developers:
For media players that you've built or that you've seen out on the web today, how big are they in k? And of that total size, how much code does it take to support each of the service integrations with CDNs, ad servers/networks, analytics services, and content management systems?
I'm interested in total player size, the % of that total devoted to each type of service integration, and the average for an individual service integration.
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Opinions required on long term prospects for software developers
I'd like to canvas opinion on how secure people feel about being a software developer. Aside from the current economic situation, do you think that it's possible to be a career software developer? I have no aspirations to be a manager, and I'm happy being a hands-on developer.
One or two things have led me to question my long term job security:-
1. The trend in off-shoring development work to 'low cost' centres worries me.
2. Migrant workers can move to the UK, and significantly undercut salaries of native workers.
3. Experience seems to count for little in this industry, and there appears to be an ageist attitude from employers. I know someone who is 50, has a significant amount of experience as a developer, yet can't even get any interviews.
I don't see many developers who are in the 'older' age bracket (I'm currently 42, which I don't consider to be old :) However I do not want to continue in my current career, and find I'm unemployable at 50. Does anyone else share my worries?I don't think taking a survey of opinions in these forums is statistically valid in understanding what's going on in the workplace. Even with a statistical study of the current situation, the studies make a lot of assumptions. Also, I believe the situation is about to change. The population of the US is aging quickly and a large number of baby boomers are about to retire (or try to). Companies have no choice but to deal with an aging population.
Those companies that are still in the old mind-set that older workers aren't valuable are short-changing themselves. That justification existed previous to the 1960's in the Industrial Revolution when most of labor was involved in hard physical labor and older workers literally wore out. Today its the Computer Revolution and its knowledge based work. Experience counts more than muscle. Its odd that the companies that consider themselves young and cutting-edge are using an outdated old Industrial Revolution paradigm. Oh well, I guess they will learn with experience.
The best we could do is to keep our skills up and not defeat ourselves by thinking negatively. Those two things will have a bigger impact on our success than age discrimination. As far as over-seas competition, I think a lot of the grunt-work will go overseas, but a lot of the creativity will remain here. We'll have to re-define what it is to be a US software developer (yes I know, a lot of creativity will also occur overseas!).
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Vital webOS limitations Palm must fix and my "wish list" for software developers
I have now updated following many many times, in my free Best Buy guide - Vantage Technology Magazine - so it's time to post an update here... Just as I done in PreCentral ;-)
WebOS is now the clearly best alternative, for most people - but the Personal Information Management functionality, got a lot worse since the "old" Palm OS and that is a huge problem, because a really smart PIM suite with excellent ToDo and calender functions, can really improve your life and that make it the most valuable part of a smartphone, if it work great... And if Palm finally begin to fix this limitations, can they also advertise "We make the best mobile OS even better" each time they update and not just use the updates as bug fixes...
Then do I live in Sweden and we don't got the Palm Pre yet - so I could not test anything myself and that mean that some details below might be wrong or already fixed... So please email me - [email protected] - if something need adjustment... And that also mean that I maybe missed some more problems, that was very hard or impossible to see in screen shots and reviews... And I will actually not buy any device with webOS before most of the first 8 limitations below, are fixed either by Palm or someone else - because I simply don't want to pay for clearly worse functionality, than I already have with my "old" lovely Palm Treo 680!!
I read that many share my views, about following problems - but PLEASE comment this post anyhow, if you feel the same about ANY part... So Palm finally wake up, understand that people actually are very different (with dramatically different needs) and simply give us the vital options / settings, that only will make webOS dramatically better for heavy users and absolutely NOT make anything less fancy, if they simply let the current "look" be the default setting... Type Palm will only win, if they make "the best mobile OS" even better!!
01) There is still no complete desktop sync for every important Personal Information Management part, as ToDo lists with categories... Except if you are connected to an Exchange server... You can only back up automatically to Palm's servers, but without any option to edit your own text from your notebook... So complete desktop sync should actually be included in the box, as an alternative and offer sync through both USB and Wifi, plus maybe Bluetooth... And naturally include some kind of desktop application, so you can save and edit the calendar and tasks in your notebook... Now must you first buy MS Outlook (if you not have that) and a third party sync program, that not even handle ToDo lists... But palm have at least a migration tool, that help you move all your data (one way only) from an old Palm device and Palm desktop (or MS Outlook) to a new pre...
02) There is a lot of "elegant" waste of screen space and very BIG fonts, in almost every basic view... That should naturally be an option, because and absolutely not a default setting, you can't even change... Because most people need just 33% more space, to max 50% more if you have huge finger tips, for accurate finger navigation (compared to a stylus) and NOT more than twice the space, to show the same text info... They should at least offer two extra alternative settings - that show two or three times as much info (at every view that now use huge fonts) and that would anyhow be easy to navigate with your fingertips... Yes, the events have now small text in the calender (that not should get smaller) and many may love the new spacious design, with a lot of empty space and huge fonts... But there should naturally be some alternative setting - for everyone that have normal finger tips, a lot of info in the smartphone and don't want to scroll like crazy.... And it's especially very easy to miss vital info, if you can't see it directly, as in Tasks and Contacts... So I sincerely hope it soon will be possible to "tighten" up all the new empty space between text lines and at least select smaller fonts (naturally together with less empty space around the letters) in the settings... And the absolute best would be if you can select that options separately for the tasks, contacts, email, calendar and messaging... And then choose between four text sizes, with the current as 4 with a bit bigger text for calendar events and "modern" or roman fonts... Because if some tightening NOT is possible, will the the bigger screen only be useful for web browsing and that would be very very sad... Yes, you can now only see HALF the info in Tasks (without scrolling or missing vital stuff) even if the screen is much bigger, than I can see directly in my "old" Palm Treo 680 and that vital missing option, would make Palm Pre practically useless for me!!
03) The included Task application seems to be almost worthless, because of five big usability limitations... -1- You can't see if there is an "extra note page" connected to the task... -2- It don't show the priority either... -3- You can now only select 3 priority levels (just as in Windows mobile and Symbian) even if it was 5 levels before... -4- The huge fonts and plenty of empty space around the text, make it only possible to view 6 task without scrolling, instead of the 11 task that I can view on the much smaller Treo 680 screen and that is almost insane, when a simple setting / option could allow 12 task in Pre, with clearly more empty space around the text (for easy finger navigation) than before... -5- Then will task only sync with Exchange servers (if you have that) but not with Google, as example... But the lousy task management, can of course be fixed soon by Palm or in good time, with extra programs... And it support at least "multiple todo lists" as categories, so it work slightly better than simple Nokia smartphones... Then can you anyhow use the old PalmOS task application (that not have any of this limitations) with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator, instead of the crippled webOS version!!
04) The last BIG problem I found, was the fact that webOS not support any categories (as friends, biz, service and shops) in the contacts application any more - which are very bad news, if you have about 200 contacts and extremely inconvenient for people with a lot more than 600 contacts... Note that otherwise is webOS contact application clearly more advanced than before... And I expect there will be some even more advanced contact applications, with category functionality, pretty soon - even if that naturally should be included by Palm, from the start... Then can you actually use the old PalmOS contact application (that not have this limitation) with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator, instead of the otherwise great webOS version!!
05) In the calendar should you also be able to remove the fancy "empty time holder" completely, to free up even more space for real calender info!!
06) The "date picker" that help you select another day for an entry in the calendar, should naturally show a mini calendar (with dated and weekdays) as it was before and not just let you select days from a list, guessing what weekday that might be!!
07) The "universal" search don't search in the Calendar, any documents, in the message part of emails or Tasks* and that is very strange - it should at least be a two step search, with a "Search deeper in Pre" option, before Pre offer you to search in Google... Or even get a finer possibility, to select where the Pre normally should search... * But you can search Task, if you are inside.
08) There is no longer any "scroll bar" that show where you are, not even as an option and it should be a slim transparent indicator, that also show how big the actual view is of the total page.
09) Then do I also want the magnificent "floating event" functionality (at least in a third party application) that I now have in DateBk6 so you can show vital events that should be done today, in the calender and get them automatically moved to next day, every new day... But before you get this in a webOS application, can you use DateBk6 (made for the old PalmOS) that have this great functionality, with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator!!
10) The pretty "Memo" application is pointless (just as before) when you anyhow have Task and Calender... And it is not possible to sync, so what you really need is a good plain text editor - that is easy to back up and open from your notebook, rock solid, ultra fast, has smart search & replace and handle minimum 144 huge text documents, in 12 folders... Including at least txt, html and hopefully some other file types... I sincerely hope (and guess) that someone will make a fine text editor, because a true Word document editor IS a lot more clumsy and slower to use, in a smartphone... But you can probably use the excellent old PalmOS application CardTXT that have the text functionality you may need and more, with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator!!
11) There is no multiple email management, so you have to delete or move each email separately and that should naturally be fixed... Even if you (maybe) can do that in Google email or outlook, instead? * And you can now "delete all" in the trash folder!
12) You can't change the alert sound for texts and emails!
13) Then is the new program launcher, rather limited... You get only three windows, without any helpful category names - like main, games, web favo, friends, settings and extra - you get only a simple I to III style indicator at bottom... But you will probably be able to buy a more advanced launcher, soon... And you can temporary put your 12 main programs (that not is on the quick bar) on the first page, web favo's plus settings on the second and everything else on the last page... But there is now a free "patch" at www.precentral.net that add extra pages and two more, that show 4 or 5 icons on each row... And you can in addition use the old PalmOS application manager (that not have this limitations) for any excellent "old" programs, with help of the amazing "Classic" emulator!
14) Pre shuts down the phone, when you connect it as a USB drive and you have to enter your PIN to get back online.... Yes, that is one thing that even iPhone handle better.
15) You use right or left swiping to view another day and the same method to view another week, in that view... But you must swipe up and down in month view and that's just dumb!!
16) Some part of the ultra smart "Synergy" integration give you also trouble, because if you include your Facebook account will everyone you "know" there (you can't just select a few) be saved as contacts and that may result in ton's of contacts, you don't want in your smartphone - but it will probably come some extra program that "filter" that later and the other new "Synergy" contacts functionality, work like magic.
17) Then does copy & paste not work in IM or SMS messages, but that should be very easy to fix... ** But copy & paste (of text) work now in both emails and web pages, plus many many other places!
18) You can't change how many "message lines" you can see in the email preview.
19) Pre work normally very fast, but there is a delay when you open new programs and no "hourglass" so you might sometimes wonder if something happen, the first times you open a heavy program... But I don't know if that really need a fix or just some getting use to?!
20) Then might the ring signal be too quiet, but only according to 1 of 9 reviewers and another one say it's loud enough... And the alarm clock use now the ringtone volume, so it should be fine... Even if the alarm clock naturally have a separate volume!!
This replace naturally my old version, that I did post here over one year ago!One alternative to the Tasks application is Outline Tracker which has knobs to open items with content text, and multiple projects, which should fill your need for multiple to-do lists. It does not currently have priorities, though.
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I am thinking about learning how to develop apps for Android. If you're a developer, how did you learn to develop apps, and do you have any suggestions to get started? What hardware would I need to test apps with?
Start at http://www.android.com/
You'll find everything you need to know there (or on links from there). Download the SDK, pay the $25 one-time fee (if you want to distribute via the Market), and have at it.
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Question For Adobe Developers: Form Autoresponder
Is there any plans to incorporate Forms Widget with Auto-responder like Mail Chimp or AWeber?? I have found the Mail Chimp widget from third party vendors to be woefully lacking.
Please let me know if this is a possibility in near future.
Thanks!
GreggAs I understand it, the new FME (Jan 2008?) will include
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Very simple question, how do you configure windows 8.1 to use a SD card / external drive as the default install location for software applications? Primarily interested in apps installed from the windows store. This should be available in the settings
charm within the windows store. This must have been overlooked in the development of windows 8.1 or is a bug.
Regards, Bill
* update
I've tried modifying this key and the path:
“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx”
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_store/how-do-you-install-apps-in-windows-8-from-the/c4fbe2a8-fd3d-41c1-b9a6-6f881eed374f
Also tried using symlinks as detailed here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8eee52c2-db0f-4032-8c72-7cd999e8b41a/windows-8-apps-installing-to-secondary-drive?forum=w8itprogeneralHere's some links I've used to try to figure this out:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/2dfc0cd9-7d1b-41de-abce-e03fb6a5a383/metro-apps-not-working-in-windows-8-pro-x64-after-moving-users-and-programdata-folders?forum=w8itproinstall
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/8eee52c2-db0f-4032-8c72-7cd999e8b41a/windows-8-apps-installing-to-secondary-drive?forum=w8itprogeneral
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/de-DE/f5e33ac9-beab-4b99-b3ca-7cb5e6f415e4/how-do-you-change-metro-apps-default-install-location?forum=w8itprogeneral
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A question for any iOS developers out there with access to the iOS 5 Beta release:
My wife and I share a single iTunes account on our 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, & 2 MacBooks. My question is--With all the auto-sync features of iOS 5 (calendars, contacts, bookmarks, photos, apps, etc.), how will we be able to select which features we want synced on each device? Do you know if there are settings to allow her info to be synced to her MacBook, iPad & iPhone, and my info to only be synced with my MacBook, iPhone & iPad? Or will we have to open an iTunes account for her?--which means we wouldn't be able to share apps, etc. Any idea how this might work? -Bob in Austin-I also think this is more iTunes related than iOS5 or iCloud related. I think there is a iTunes preview freely available since I am pretty sure I downloaded it. I think I have new iTunes related Settings on my iPad under Store. These probably address some of your questions. Since I have not attempted to get iOS5, these settings are not the result of that. I am assuming anything I have is something that is okay for the general consumer to have.
My guess is that all of the things you mentioned will be managed through the iTunes application on your Mac or PC. This may change as the new Store apps are released to the iOS devices. If I am not mistaken, some of the apps have already been updated. Your iTunes account is not going to be OS specific and with the exceptions of your iOS apps, the media you download will not be OS specific. You have specific settings for each iOS device in your computer copies of iTunes, correct? Probably a good plan would be to designated which devices are going to be part of your beta testing and use the machines accordingly. -
Please answer a programming question for an admin
I'm not a programmer (although my interest is growing), so I can't answer this question in a discussion regarding how Win32API w/OLE and COM is SO much better than programming for Unix/OS X applications.
The original discussion was in regards to OS X's superior Unix based security, he devolved to this. Having only begun my venture into programming, his questions are a little above my head at this point. I'm also interested (as an amature programmer), how this would be accomplished in OS X/Unix.
Thanks in advance.
Here's his position:
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I have unsed Windows and many flavors of Unix and I have written programs in Assembler, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, RPG, Smalltak, Basic, PowerBuilder, Delphi, C, C++, C#, Java, and Perl, and I have been programming for over 20 years, so I do have extensive knowledge about programming.
So I have one question for you:
If you had to build a business application that has to allow users to, spell and grammer check, and perform financial calculations, and render the HTML, how would you compare the effort to do this in Windows versus that in Linux, AIX, Solaris or any other Unix operating system?
I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
I make my living building complex customized business software, and Windows allow me to build these applications by myself in weeks, when it would take me and a team of programmers months to do these same things in Unix because of the lack of an the Win32 API, COM, and OLE, or I would have to BUY third party libraries that did these things, and deal with the licensing, versioning, and vendor problems that go with them, and none of those third party librabries would be close to Word, Excel, and IE in CAPABILITY!
HONESTLY tell me and others reading this thread how you would go about create the customized business application I described above by yourself in a Unix instead of Windows, and tell us how many MONTHS or YEARS it would take you, or how you would have to BUY some other third party libraries to do what Word, Excel, and IE!
Anyone who thinks a Unix has more CAPABILITIES than Windows, has never used Win32API/COM/OLE/.Net, and does not build customized complex business software for a living, because we people that do are the reason that you find some much customized business desktop software for Windows, and so little for any Unix.
I have nothing against Unix, and it is great for simple business tasked server software, but for complex business tasked desktop software Windows with Win32API/COM/OLE/.Net wins hands down!
*(2nd Entry)*
A System administrators view of an operating system and an application developers view are entirely different, and the Win32API/COM/OLE/.NET simply make my job so much easier, and you simply don't understand because you do not have to deal with the "dirty' details of making what a user wants, which is why your definition of "integration" and mines are totally different!
With the spell check you talked about, how will you keep in in synch with the dictionary in Word where the user is constantly adding and removing words?
No, you would have the user to have to maintain two different spell check dictionaries, and you would totally ignore the grammer check requirement!
Cutting and pasting data between applications is simple integration, and not the complex type that I am talking about.
Can you make your application display and use the MacGourmet menus appear in its own window, and to access and use the MacGourmet functionality (ie. search for a recipe) in its own window?
Give me one example of a Unix application that can display the menus of another application, yet alone control its features!
Of course you can't, because you need COM and OLE!
I am quite familiar with different flavors of Unix, but those operating systems do not have the rich API and program integration features namely COM and OLE that Windows has, because it violates the Unix idea of security by process isolation!
Yes that idea of process isolation keeps the operating system safe from malicious code in applications and from one application taking the others down, but you lose the power of programs working together, and you simply cannot build the type of customized business applications that I build by myself, without reinventing the wheel over and over and without having a large team with lots of programmers.
For example, my customers and millions of others spend all day working in Word and Excel, and the Windows idea that I can transparently integrate my complex business applications right in Word and Excel menu, and into their templates and macros, is why third party developers like me prefer Windows over Unix, regardless of how much better security in Unix is.
Do not get me wrong, Java improves business application development on Unix, but unfortuantely it is not feasable to rewrite ever legacy application in Java, and Java does not integrate well with other programming languages.
I used to code business application for both IBM MVS and Sun Solaris, and I never want to go back to those "bad" old days again, once I took the time to learn how to PROPERLY code using Win32API/COM/OLE/.NET!At risk of feeding the troll I'll wander in here:
NOTE: Since this is an Apple programming boards and I have limited experience programming on traditional Unix systems (and most of that in college) I will confine my answers to the area I know.
If you had to build a business application that has to allow users to, spell and grammer check, and perform financial calculations, and render the HTML, how would you compare the effort to do this in Windows versus that in Linux, AIX, Solaris or any other Unix operating system?
I can make this business application have these features in ONE DAY on Windows, because COM and OLE lets me, use Word to spell and grammer check, Excel to do the financial calculations, and IE to render the HTML!
Note that this scenario assumes the user has Microsoft office installed. The person argues that they don't have to purchase libraries to program but what they are effectively doing is simply transferring that cost to user. I don't have to purchase libraries but everyone of my users needs to. Good for you, very good for Microsoft but bad for your customer - IMHO. OK, I know "But all Windows business users have Office installed already." When it comes free with the system then I'll retract my objection.
Under OS X and Cocoa many of these functions are intrinsic to the system layer and do not require any applications to be installed. Using Cocoa you can write a simple Word processor that has rulers, full font manipulation (including kerning, spacing and leading), Document Save and Load, Printing, Export to PDF as well as spell-checking in under 10 lines of actual code. Adding a custom file type and icon for full system integration will add another 5 minutes to your programing.
In case you think I'm blowing smoke here is a tutorial from 2002 (yes, this has been possible for over 5 years) outlining the 8 line Word Processor build in Cocoa. http://www.stone.com/TheCocoa_Files/What_s_sofunny.html
And yes, Cocoa also includes Webkit so I can add full HTML rendering by dragging in a WebKit window to my user interface. For an experienced Cocoa programmer this certainly sounds like less than a day of programming - in fact it sounds like a good tutorial for a middle-experienced training day or 2 day class in Cocoa.
I won't include the link to the 1 line web browser you can build in Cocoa using Webkit because it's shorter than the description. Feel free to search for it if you want to.
HONESTLY tell me and others reading this thread how you would go about create the customized business application I described above by yourself in a Unix instead of Windows, and tell us how many MONTHS or YEARS it would take you, or how you would have to BUY some other third party libraries to do what Word, Excel, and IE!
BUT this is all done from the stock system that is on every OS X computer not simply those with Office installed. Obviously you'd need to add some features that were more complicated than this - because any halfway decent programmer could turn this stuff out - and polish takes a while but to meet the requirements of the challenge it would take 2 days tops.
Is every *nix programming environment like this? I don't know I can only answer for the system that I have experience with and is the concern of this board. If you really have questions regarding *nix programming then I suggest you find an appropriate board and troll^H^H^H^H^H ask there.
If you're ever serious about programming on the Mac feel free to stop by and actually take a look at it. I think you'll be surprised.
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The notices on L9 tout better CPU handing as one of it's advantages. But Snow Leopard has Grand Central Station which is supposed to do that too. So my question is this: Is Snow Leopard making a difference in the way the processing is allocated in 8.02?
The way I see this is that 10.6 lays the groundwork for the Mac OS going forward. It will take a while for application developers (including those at Apple) to rework their software to take advantage of new opportunities introduced in the OS. It seems reasonable to me that it might take a few months, but the future looks quite bright. A couple of developers that I speak with point out that the feature set of S-L, and the detailed implementations, wasn't set until just a few months ago, so it will take time. Programmers can't be expected to finalize their designs until they have firm specs. on which to base their work.
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I have the same problem - it is maddening. I rely on this iPad for work so this is not just an annoyance! The above solutions of changing the appleid on the device or on the website do not work.
The old email address no longer exists - I haven't used it in a year probably and I no longer have the account. I logged into the appleid website and there is no trace of the old email address so there is nothing that can be deleted or changed there. On the iPad there is no trace of the old email address so nothing can be deleted there either. I have updated the iPad software and the same problem comes right back. Every 2 seconds I am asked to log in using the old non-existent email. The device is currently useless.
The only recent change to anything was the addition of an Apple TV device, which was set up using the correct login and password.
Does anyone have any ideas? The iPad has been backed up to the iCloud so presumably it now won't recognize the current iCloud account? So restoring may notbe an option? -
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hi guru
can somebody give some real time questions for alv report.
answers also.
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The ALV is a set of function modules and classes and their methods which are added to program code. Developers can use the functionality of the ALV in creating new reports, saving time which might otherwise have been spent on report enhancement
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<b>Reward useful points</b>
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Photos does not support external editing like iPhoto. Is there likely to be an upgrade to change this or will I abandon Photos for software that does support editing in Photoshop?
iPhoto does work and there is an upgrade:
Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1
If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash
Install the App from the App Store.
Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928
One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?
iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always. -
got a question for all you peeps
dos anyone know about i phones i have a i phone 3gs which i got unlocked i did a master reset or summin and just had a pic of apple so i plugged it in i tunes downloaded and it now says no service at the top of phone and i tunes says invalid sim i put the correct sim in it used to be locked too and still says same pls any one with ideas?hi sorry what happoned is that ages ago i brought a i phone 3gs on 02 network i went to a sml phone shop and payed for them to unlock it. it has been fine till yesterday when i went to reset it from the phone it then turned off and came back on just just an image of a apple for about an hour so i connected to i tunes and it said downloading software after another hr it had finished but then i tunes said in had to insert a sim so i had to un plug the phone from laptop while i did this i put my orange sim in and the i phone said where do i live and had to connect to a internet connection but all the time saying no service where the signal bar is and then says activating i phone it took a few min and said couldnt finish it bec of the signal and to connect it to i tunes to do it so i connected it to itunes and i tunes just keeps saying invalid sim so i took my orange sim out and put a 02 sim in and is still saying invalid sim on itunes?
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