[Minibits-general] MiniBits Developer Settings

[Rob W. <ro...@na...>]

All,
1) d's comments are very true - it doesn't work. Currently I'm a tracker
admin/technician with all others set as technicians.
As we're still relatively small I'll make all developers tracker admins - in
the future if we grow we may be best limiting ourselves to 2 or 3 admins.
2) Options/Parameters - Registry definitely. Putting settings in the db was
a quick-and-dirty method of allowing the front-end to get sorted - but I'm
perfectly happy with going straight to having the data in the registry - a
much more long-term method.

My additions to the ongoing debate:
For database changes it would be helpful to work out some form of change
management.
When I make db changes, I make the changes in my live db, and copy it to
another version which I upload. I can't do it the other way around because
if I overwrite my tblSuppliers with the new tblSuppliers, it's byebye
suppliers.
For an end user, they don't want to a) migrate their data to the new db
version b) add in the new features to the old db. They need it automating.
Or even if they don't, I do!!!!
With a database change, I would say we need either an access macro or an
external program to add forms or add fields to forms. Also if a new field is
to be added to a form it would help if each row of the new field was
initialised to "-" as blank fields cause errors under some conditions.
Does anyone know of any good pre-existing resources to aid in this, or are
we looking to have to create from scratch??? At the moment the only end user
is me, but as the project grows, as I hope it will, this will become more
important.

As ever, all input gratefully r'cvd
Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: min...@li...
[mailto:min...@li...]On Behalf Of d
Sent: 10 August 2003 10:29
To: Minibits-General
Subject: [Minibits-general] Re: FW: [minibits - Developers] Ref 785770
-- Program Options


rob and all;
a couple things,

1)  i can't assign myself tasks from the tracker.  either i can't see a
link or it's not there (or i may be blind).  i always used the
project/task section which i thought was one in the same. hmmmmmm.  any
suggestions?

the rest is relative to the text included at the bottom of this email;

2)  for options/parameters, do we want to keep these stored in the db or
copy/move to an ini file (hopefully not, just an option) or the registy?


Rob -- i looked into the trackers you mentioned and have a good idea of
what you want.  i'll put that together and then we can discuss the
location of the stored settings.


that's it for now,
d

Rob Walters wrote:

> d,
> Got your forum post.
> OK in terms of the config settings.... The ones I had in mind to be held
in
> frmMainMenu were the implementation-specific details. The ones I listed
were
> ref'd in tracker item D785761 (now closed), text below.
> This may be a starting point - if you want any more adding in let me know
> and I'll put them in the db.
> Also of interest may be D785766, CNFCHG, where the config settings held by
> frmMainMenu would be loaded initially. The 3 tasks draw on the same area.
> Sorry if the way I loaded the tasks was a little confusing - I'm still
> trying to find the best way to coordinate...
> Any opinions let me know.
> In terms of the config, as I say, let me know what you think of my
settings
> so far.
> As the software grows I think the config will grow, but it was my
suggestion
> of a starting point...
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SourceForge.net [mailto:no...@so...]
> Sent: 10 August 2003 09:06
> To: no...@so...
> Subject: [minibits - Developers] Ref 785770 -- Program Options
>
>
>
> Read and respond to this message at:
> https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=2143810
> By: paracyte
>
> minibits developers,  i'm working on the settings code for the frmMainMenu
> from task 785770.  it would
> help a lot if you could send me/the group a listing of any program
settings
> that you stumble on.  this way i can make sure they're all included in
> the loadsettings on the main menu.  they'll also be included in the dev
> docs/notes
> when i complete them.  for documentation purposes the
> name/variable/description/module info would be appreciated.
>   thanks, d
>
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