2009 Project Bundle Up

For the first time ever we had a live auction. Much to the chagrin of Jan Johansen, he became the auctioneer. Many even followed his suggestion of bringing alcohol to be auctioned. The list of items included a suncatcher, vodka, many bottles of wine, power supply, and others. Over $360 for Project Bundle Up at the auction.

Curently as this moment we have collected approximately $1450 for Project Bundle Up. For many of you who couldn't make it to the conference, you can send a check to Donna Memon at R:BASE Technologies. Please write the check in order of "Project Bundle Up" or "Salvation Army".

Bill Downall receives the "Life Time Achievement Award"

Bill, to much of his surprise and delight, last night was awarded the RBTI “ Life Time Achievement Award”.

Bill received this awarded and is so busy “Blogging” that he has left himself out of this announcement. To be honest between his takings of notes, being one of two MCs’ and keeping us all up to date on this Blog it is an award WELL deserved, among all the other day by day items.

You can view these awards and other activities by following this link as well as viewing them on one of Bill’s earlier posts today.

http://picasaweb.google.com/RBASE10thYear


Thank you,
RBang

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.

Documenting the Undocumented

Razzak showed what he described as 12 percent of the undocumented features of R:BASE eXtreme 9.0.

• Magnifying glass to zoom in on small, hard to read things (Ctrl-Alt-M)
• PROPERTY REPORT CANCEL 'TRUE'
• Report | Breaks | DESC order
• Form Designer | Assign color: click on the title "Background Color" or "Font Color" on the toolbar
• In Enhanced DB Grid, set filter type to (None) for fast load, to "Column Values" for drop-down list
• Enhanced DB Grid, Hot Keys: Ctrl-F/F3 for Find, Ctrl-L for enhanced Filter dialog, Ctrl-S for show/hide DB Grid Columns 
• Data Browser | Table | Open | Select Column | right-click, calculate, options include all output options (Printer, text file, PDF, clipboard)
• Working with old code w/ PLUGIN commands, *.rbl, *80.rbl, eXtreme 9.0 will recognize and run correct 9.0 version
• Migrate your Custom Color defined in 7.6 or V-8 into eXtreme 9.0 (in old version: Settings/Custom Colors/Save to File. In new version, Settings/Custom Colors/Load from File)

Banquet Awards

First Timers
David Braunschweiger
Masahiro Kawata

Extra Mile
Mashahiro Kawata

Bug Finders Extraordinaire
Bill Downall
Dan Goldberg





Beta Testers
Mike Byerley
Brock Dewey
Paul Dewey
Bill Downall
Dan Goldberg
Gary Wendike

Developer of the Year
Mike Byerley
(Third straight year!)

Developers' Program Changes

Razzak announced that the R:BASE Technologies program for Authorized Developers will be discontinued at the end of 2009, to be followed by a new program, the details of which are yet to be announced.

R:Base is now Peachy!

Alexsey Chuyasov demonstrated the next integration facility, beyond what was not in the last year or two for QuickBooks. This is R:Accounting for Peachtree, a plugin interface that allows R:BASE to suck data out of Peachtree, or even for R:BASE to send financial transactions into Peachtree. The user interface is still being refined, but the live demonstration showed R:BASE building a report on data that came out of Peachtree, and separately, data entry into an R:BASE form, and the same transaction with details posted into the Peachtree.