[dba-VB] Syslogs

 > What I am getting at is, why not just send it to everyone?   Why cherry-pick individuals?

This is an attempt to avoid the timer.  I hate timers, though I use them in a server application. 
In a user application they cause screen blinking and also cause compile errors for the developer if 
the timer tries to execute code while you are typing in code.


John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Hmmm, ok I will think about that...but when you say "..so that I can..." do
> you mean your application or you as an individual?
> 
> What I am getting at is, why not just send it to everyone?   Why cherry-pick
> individuals?
> 
> EG; on one of my apps, I have, oh, all sorts of messages flying around, but
> on each FE there is a timer running on the main menu and periodically it
> will go to see if there are any messages in the table which handles this
> sorta stuff.  IF so, the user has a pop up with the option to Sleep for x
> mins (default to 15) before it reminds again.  It will never go away until
> the user has read it, unless you (the originator) says it can time out.
> 
> Sorta stuff...if you can get my drift.  Don't need to send system messages.
> It is handled with the app.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 29 June 2009 17:28
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Syslogs
> 
> No, I want the Access workstations to log their IP address in a table as
> Access opens so that I can 
> read who is available to send messages to.
> 
> The limitation of this kind of code is that you have to know an IP address.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Max Wanadoo wrote:
>> Do you mean IP address without having to go to the other workstation.
>>
>> If you just want to know what the IP address is, use VNC or RealVNC then
> you
>> can just hover the mouse over the system tray icon and it will tell you
> the
>> ip address.
>>
>> Max
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
>> Sent: 29 June 2009 16:53
>> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
>> Subject: [dba-VB] Syslogs
>>
>> Hmm...
>>
>> Looks quite cool.
>>
>> My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading
> into
>> a waterfall of creative 
>> alternatives.
>>
>> Now... how do we determine the IP address of every machine using an Access
>> application on the local LAN?
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>>
>> Susan Harkins wrote:
>>> <http://www.devx.com:80/vb/Article/42242/0/page/1>
>>>
>>> I'm so proud... ;) <sniff> Notice, my name is NOT in the byline... I'm so
> 
>>> proud... yet another ones passes safely to single author status. :)
>>>
>>> Susan H. 
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