Non standard Post Conditions

Hi All,
I would like to know if it is possible with a post condition or something else, to skip and go to another step from another jobchain and not its own jobchain. Here is an example, let's say we have :
- a jobchain A contains 2 steps
step 1: jobchain B
step 2: jobchain C
I want for a particular status of B's script jump into a particular step of C.
The allowed actions within post conditions are restricted to its jobchain.
Any great ideas ?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Yi Jiang

Hi Yi,
So you have a chain A calling two chains B and C sequentially.
If I got your question right, you want chain B to stop in certain situations, and then let chain A continue with chain C but from a certain step in C.
The easiest way to do this, if possible, is to break up chain B and C in smaller parts all called by chain A. Then you can use postconditions in chain A to do the jump to a different step. You would only need to break up B and C at the points where you need a postcondition.
Another approach could be to have preconditions in chain C that determine what happened to chain B. Depending on the result of B, the first step(s) or call(s) in chain C could then be skipped. The result of chain B could be derived from the job statuses.
You could also have each step in chain B set a certain out parameter of chain B, which can then be used in chain C to determine which steps to skip. This should make the preconditions on C easier, but it requires some effort in chain B.
Is this what you were looking for ?
Regards,
Anton.

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*PaperDimension Letter/US Letter: "612.00 792.00"
*PaperDimension Legal/US Legal: "612.00 1008.00"
*PaperDimension A4/A4: "595.00 842.00"
*PaperDimension FanFoldUS/US Fanfold: "1071.00 792.00"
+*PaperDimension Label1/Label1: "288.00 107.80"
*MaxMediaWidth: "1080.00"
*MaxMediaHeight: "86400.00"
*HWMargins: 18.00 18.00 18.00 18.00</pre>
I don't know if that will help you or not. Let us know what sort of progress you make.
Matt

Add Non-Standard Web Link in Mac Mail

Does anyone know how to add a non-standard web link? The add link dialog box does not like my url.
I need to add a link like this: http://someserver100/index.html.
It disables the "OK" button as soon as I add the "100" after "someserver".
Prior to the Leopard upgrade I never had a problem doing this. Now it seems that Mail is trying to be too clever. Please help, this is an important business need for me to be able to send links like this.

I didn't originally go deep into detail as not to bore, but maybe the details will make the difference.
I am a web developer. I have a client that I vpn into to make web updates. The server that I work on is a testing / development server, not the outside world facing production server. The server is not viewable via a domain name. So I can not get to it by typing www.domainname.com. Instead, the client's IT guys have a host name set up for the server that I need to use due to some of the back end technology that serves the pages.
The server name is "development100".
In order for me to view pages on this server, I had to make an entry in my host file so my browser would know what ip address "development100" is associated with. That way whenever I type "http://develoment100" into my browser's url bar to proof my web work it would resolve me to the testing / development server.
Now, once my changes are done and posted, I need to send a notification email to the IT staff that servers two purposes. First, it gives them an exact url laundry list of what files have have updated. Second, it gives them a link to click for each item that will allow them to proof that html, jpeg, etc.
A typical item in this list would like like this: http://development100/index.html
That link should send them directly to the index page on the server for example. I have be using this system of building the notification emails with these links for over five years and prior to upgrading to Leopard, it always worked.
Now, if I try to "Add Link" and type "http://development100/index.html" in the dialog box. The "OK" button will become disabled as soon as I key in the first number in that link.
If I don't "Add Link" and just key "http://development100/index.html" into the body of the email the link will cut off at the first number as well. So the link will look like this: "http://development"
Sorry for the long explanation, but I think that it is necessary. The answer may just be that Apple is trying to verify / qualify links automatically and wont let numbers go in the link name without a .com / suffix. Thanks for the help.

More Non-standard keys

Hi
I've noticed that many Windows programs responds to a "menu"-key located next to the right <ctrl>key. (When you press this key, a popup menu shows up as if you would have pressed the right mouse button).
I would like to respond to this key in my program. A KeyEvent is produced in java and sent to the processKeyEvent method. The keycode is 0. And KeyEvent.getKeyText(e.getKeyCode()) returns "Unknown keyCode".
This is unfortunately not the only key on my keyboard which is unknown to java. (Also the "Windows"-key next to the left <ctrl>key, and the Back- and forward keys mentioned in the "Non-standard keys" posting last month return keyCode 0) Is it possible somehow to tell which unknown key has been pressed? I've tried to find any difference in the KeyEvents when pressing different "unknown" keys, but the events seem to be equal.
Does anyone know if java offers another way to tell which key has been pressed??

Hi again
Hmmm, that's an interesting thought. Aside from inserting a
kabillion Click Box objects on the slide (one for each key allowed)
there really isn't a way inside Captivate. Personally, I think it
would make for a wonderful enhancement request.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
Aside from that, you might contract with fellow Adobe
Community Expert Paul Dewhurst to create a small widget similar to
what is found at the link below, but accepts any keypress as the
trigger:
Click
here to visit Paul's site
Paul's contact information is on his site.
Cheers... Rick

Non-standard install problem

I'm trying to upgrade to the newest Flash player for Opera on Windows XP but I can't get it to install properly. I think the problem is that Opera (9.4) is installed to a non-standard folder on my machine (.../Opera7) rather than the usual .../Opera folder and I'd rather not have to change it. Any ideas on how I can install to the correct location? Any help would be appreciated.

If that didnt work try this below:
1) Open up the Command Prompt as an Administrator (Go to All Programs > Accessories and Right Click on Command Prompt and then choose Run as administrator)
2) Type cd C:\Windows\SysWOW64
3) Type regsvr32 vbscript.dll (This registers VB Script with your computer.)
4) Now install iTunes as you normally would by double clicking on the install program and wait for iTunes to finish installing.
5) Type regsvr32 \u vbscript.dll (This unregisters VB Script with your computer.)
THIS ONE COMES WITH A WARNING
TRY BOTH OF THESE AT YOUR OWN RISK
AND some thing below to consider about this second step, not the first post
To enabled, VB Script a scripting language that has been responsible for more trojan and worms floating around the internet than any other on the face of this earth. All in order to install one of the earths most popular programs to get our daily audio fix. So we have to disable security measures built in to protect the operating system from malicious code and leave our selves wide open.This would be the equivalent to Microsoft telling Mac People to disable buffer overflow protection in order to install Microsoft Office for the Mac.

In FireFox 9, loading secure web pages running on non-standard ports works just fine. In FireFox 10, those same pages do not load and a "The connection was reset" message is displayed.

How can this be fixed so functionality returns as per FF9 and below?
This occurs on any secured website running on a non-standard port, with FF10.

< X-Post from https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/917315#answer-315144 >
I don't think this is restricted to Firefox. I've noted this behaviour with IE9, Firefox 10.0.2, Opera Mobile (on my phone) and Chrome(latest version) with my Linksys E3000 router (I access it from https://<IP>) and my 3ware RAID card management suite, 3DM2 (I access it from https://localhost:888 ).
Notably, the only thing amiss that I've been able to see in the certificates (I'm no expert) is that the one from Linksys has issue and expiry dates in 1969 and 1970 respectively. However, I don't think this is the cause since 3DM2 has proper looking issue dates and has the identical problem.
Coincidentally, I noticed this happening after a fresh reinstall of Windows 7 x64 with virtually nothing installed on it (FF, Office 2007), so I don't think it's something wrong with the other software on the machine.

Kvirc from SVN {NON-Standard-Install-Method} and Overcoming 2 Problems

Hello, everyone. Firefishe here.
There are certain programs I like to compile from source code, outside of the normal arch hierarchy of PKGBUILD's. One such program is the Internet Relay Chat client, "KVIRC".
I've been using kvirc for years, and I like to keep it as up-to-date as possible, just like Arch!
This is why I like to use the svn version, so I can update it quickly and uniformly. I like--as a user--to contribute back to the project. (I had one of my bug reports translated into an instant commit by the main project author, himself, once. That made me feel quite good, so it really does help to do a few things like this now and again.
Okay, on to the main topic.
I'm writing this to alleviate a nagging problem that had been plaguing me for months in 2013. Qt5 just wasn't compiling kvirc very well back then. The fact is, the echoing strains of "qt5 is broken in kvirc" from the #kvirc channel on Freenode, resounded soundly throughout that entire year. Qt5 was still a bit buggy, and not all the libraries (32bit or 64bit) were quite finished.
Move forward to (now) July, 2014! I have now compiled kvirc successfully on my 64bit (with 32bit multilib installation) laptop, and kvirc is purring away with a current svn build of kvirc.
However, I ran into some issues, which I would like to share with you, below:
I usually go about compiling kvirc from svn like this: (I usually start from my /home/userNameHere directory.)
{arch@homedir}$ svn co https://svn.kvirc.de/svn/trunk/kvirc
{arch@homedir}$ cd kvirc
{arch@homedir}$ mkdir release
{arch@homedir}$ cd release
{arch@homedir}$ ccmake ..
[At this point, the 'ccmake ..' command invokes cmake-gui, an ncurses-like graphical user interface, with a list of menu items pertaining to various libraries and flags that can be set. cmake-gui makes selecting these flags and libraries quite easy, and also gives a clear indication of what directories may not have been found (which will be discussed a bit later.) ]
Press the 'C' Letter Key -- (This runs the Configure Routine. I sometimes do this twice, just to be sure it configured properly. I've had it miss a few times for unknown reasons.)
Press the 'G' Letter Key -- This 'Generates' Cmake files.
After the 'G' command, the system takes you back to the command prompt.
{arch@homedir}$ make ***WAIT A WHILE, COULD TAKE A BIT LONGER ON SLOWER SYSTEMS!***
{arch@homedir}$ sudo make install (Or 'su -' to root, then do 'make install'; your preference. I prefer using sudo.)
{arch@homedir}$ sudo ldconfig (Or 'ldconfig' if still at root prompt #)
{arch@homedir}$ kvirc (or 'kvirc &' if you don't want the terminal window to hold onto the process.)
Kvirc should run at this point, but I ran into a couple of problems. Once during the ccmake configuration (which prevented ccmake from configuring), and at the end, which prevented kvirc from running.)
The first had to do with two (2) packages that were not installed. The were, as follows:
qt5-webkit
qt5-multimedia
I installed those files, then did the 'ccmake ..' portion. That ran fine, as well as the 'make' and 'sudo make install' and 'sudo ldconfig' parts.
What didn't work was when I tried to run kvirc. I got the following error:
{arch@homedirc}$ kvirc
kvirc: error while loading shared libraries: libkvilib.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I remember, back when kvirc was wanting Qt4, and not Qt5, that if I didn't do the first 'sudo ldconfig' command before trying to run kvirc, it would give something similar. However, since this compile run was wanting Qt5, and not qt4, I was puzzled.
Well, it turned out to be something quite simple. This is a non-standard process of software installation on a new(er) arch system. The 'uname -r' command on my system yields the following: 3.15.4-1-ARCH . It is no surprise, then, that at this late date, Qt5 is complete (or at least more complete) than back in 2013 when I had the original problems, and had to select the 'WANTS-QT4' section during the 'ccmake ..' command.
**** Building kvirc this way places the kvirc binary in /usr/local/bin, and a certain 'libkvilib.so.4' library in /usr/local/lib ****.
This is to be expected from a standard source compile on most gnu/linux systems; and this *is* a standard compile, even though we're using the 'ccmake ..' command to do the preliminary configuration and cmakefile generation.)
The problem is, is that Arch is looking for libkvilib.so.4 in /usr/lib, and not /usr/local/lib. So the following was, for me, the solution that got everything squared away:
I made a symlink in /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib/libkvilib.so.4, like this:
{arch@homedir}$ cd /usr/lib
{arch@homedir}$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libkvilib.so.4 libkvilib.so.4
After doing this, I did:
{arch@homedir}$ kvirc (or kvirc &)
And It Ran Beautifully! :-)
I hope you've enjoyed this HOWTO. I know most people may just want to use the 4.2.x version of kvirc, currently residing safely in the standard repositories. However, if you're like me, and want a bit of bleeding edge, Qt5 goodness with kvirc, I might suggest doing the above!
I can be reached at firefishe At gmail DOT com if anyone has any questions.
Last edited by Firefishe (2014-07-11 09:23:20)

Hi Dareen,
Looking at the information shared and also the error message ( Update Failed,Updates could not be applied.Please contact your Administrator if you wish to apply updates on your machine. Updates have been suppressed by the Administrator.If the problems persist, contact customer support for further assistance" ),
It suggests that the updates were to be managed by the Admin only. Lets try the following step and suggest if this was able to resolve the concern that you have or not.
1) Navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\AAMUpdaterInventory\1.0 and you will find a .dat file ( AdobeUpdaterAdminPrefs.dat).
2) Please open the file in question and you will find a line item : <Suppressed>1</Suppressed> .
3) Please change the Value from 1 to 0 and save the file back in the same location.
post the above step, try the installation once again and share the end result please.
Cheers,
Kartikay Sharma

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