Custom Images on Form

The artistic John Minyo showed how to design (or find) custom bitmap images, and use them on radio buttons, checkboxes, speedbutton, or other controls. The custom images are files that store multiple images, all the same size, which represent the different states of a control: enabled, disabled, checked, selected, etc. Each image within the custom image file is a glyph.

He also showed how, in 9.0, to use these custom images in the Glyph/layout settings for the controls, to set which image goes with each state of the control. The halloween themed skeleton heads and pumpkins on speed buttons were a special highlight.

R:Mail Delivers

John showed extensive improvements in the ease of use of R:Mail 9.0, through the R:Mail Editor's Advanced Rich View Editor. Now a database-driven automated email is easy to make look pretty, with a fully GUI editor that formats your message in HTML. Save the template, and your R:Mail plugin commands can reference the template, saving dozens of lines of code and making the message much easier to edit in the future. R:Mail 9.0 thus becomes much more accessible and useful for the end-user.

R:Charts 9.0

John Minyo walked us through the interface for creating a wide variety of good looking charts from table data. The examples used financial data, and the variations in graph type and styling options were seemingly limitless.

Most awesome: he demonstrated a chart that appears to scroll real-time data (like the Task Manager "performance" tab), by reiterating the plugin call in a timed loop, as rows were being inserted or deleted from the underlying table.

Customizing R:Mail 3.0

John Minyo: Customizing R:Mail 3.0 for Individual Mail Servers

As described at http://rbase.com/products/rmail/: “R:Mail for R:BASE is a fully-integrated innovation that makes the chore of sending email messages with attachments COMPLETELY automated from within your R:BASE for Windows application.”

This very useful R:BASE plugin has gone through numerous updates and enhancements over the years. John showed a side-by-side comparison between the 2.6 and 3.0 versions.
He then demonstrated the process of setting up R:MAIL and how to use some of its features.

During the presentation Razzak chimed in with a surprise announcement with the release of “R:Mail Editor for R:BASE Dummies”. This product helps to simplify the process of setting up and configuring R:MAIL 3.0.

Razzak and Aleksey Chuyasov demonstrated the current state of development on the Client Server version of R:BASE. Several developers were invited unannounced and unprepared to come up to the front and log in to the RDCC section of rbase.com to show their lists of bug fixes and enhancement requests. Response was impressive. The fruits of the Client Server effort will most likely be seen in the eXtreme version of R:BASE.

The Dream Team (Where's Rafee?)

R:SureShip

John Minyo: Introducing R:SureShip

R:SureShip is a program that integrates UPS WorldShip 10.0 with Turbo V-8 and Oterro 8.0.
John demonstrated how the package works. The product is extremely useful for those who have the need to ship many packages at once.

R:SureShip provides many options and features for creating a shipment and tracking the packages at various stages in the process. It has multiple search and printing options.

The Help option has been enhanced to show how to integrate your database with R:SureShip.

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Prior to breaking for lunch, Sami Aaron announced that Oma Cox is a brand new grandfather. Oma made a generous donation to Project Bundle Up in honor of his new grandchild.

Sami announced that there will be a Dream Team auction on Sunday. The auction winner will get to have lunch with five members of the Dream Team.