I get two error messages when I hit send in the screen image mode:
a generic error occurred in GDI +
could not access 'CDO.message' object
I need the solution with many thanks!
take care Frances O.
Email Error messages
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Frances Osborne
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Re: Email Error messages
When I posted this to the forum why did it say that I posted it in November of 2005?
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Re: Re: Email Error messages
Hi Frances,
Unfortunately the CDO message you got covers a multitude of sins, so I can't really tell you what is wrong with your configuration. In the next version of the program, which I am working on at the moment, I have included a much more detailed error message which will help to diagnose the problem. This will be version 6.4 and I hope to have a beta ready next weekend or the one after.
In the meantime I suggest you use the Save button on the Screen Image form to save the image as an external file, and then just attach it to an email in the normal way. Slightly more longwinded but the result is the same.
Re the date, where did you see it? When I look at the forum it gives the date as August. Wherever you saw it, it almost certainly has something to do with the different formats used in Europe and the US for dates. You posted in the 11 August, which for us Europeans would be written as 11/08/2005. The server is in London and is configured to use the same system. Wherever you saw the date it had obviously been misinterpreted when converting to a long date string, so it appeared as 08 November. Five will get you ten (or is that ten will get you five?) that this is the root of the problem.
Richard
Unfortunately the CDO message you got covers a multitude of sins, so I can't really tell you what is wrong with your configuration. In the next version of the program, which I am working on at the moment, I have included a much more detailed error message which will help to diagnose the problem. This will be version 6.4 and I hope to have a beta ready next weekend or the one after.
In the meantime I suggest you use the Save button on the Screen Image form to save the image as an external file, and then just attach it to an email in the normal way. Slightly more longwinded but the result is the same.
Re the date, where did you see it? When I look at the forum it gives the date as August. Wherever you saw it, it almost certainly has something to do with the different formats used in Europe and the US for dates. You posted in the 11 August, which for us Europeans would be written as 11/08/2005. The server is in London and is configured to use the same system. Wherever you saw the date it had obviously been misinterpreted when converting to a long date string, so it appeared as 08 November. Five will get you ten (or is that ten will get you five?) that this is the root of the problem.
Richard
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Re: Re: Re: Email Error messages
Richard
Thanks for the reply. I remember now that Europeans date things a little differently. You do it dd/mm/yy while we order it mm/dd/yy
When you put out a beta version of Orphalese Tarot, how long is it after that that you have a final version?
blessings Frances
Thanks for the reply. I remember now that Europeans date things a little differently. You do it dd/mm/yy while we order it mm/dd/yy
When you put out a beta version of Orphalese Tarot, how long is it after that that you have a final version?
blessings Frances
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Re: Re: Re: Email Error messages
Hi Richard
I just had a thought about the email thing. I remember that the first time I clicked on the email icon to email the reading I was prompted to input my outgoing (smtp) server and my email address, which I did. Almost everywhere else on the web whenever I click on an email icon it automatically brings up my default mail software (in my case, Outlook Express). Perhaps this is possible to do with Orphalese Tarot?
By the way, I would like to mention that after having this program for a few days, I am totally addicted to it. It's the best (and most comprehensive) tarot program. You have done some excellent work with this!
take care and blessings from Frances
I just had a thought about the email thing. I remember that the first time I clicked on the email icon to email the reading I was prompted to input my outgoing (smtp) server and my email address, which I did. Almost everywhere else on the web whenever I click on an email icon it automatically brings up my default mail software (in my case, Outlook Express). Perhaps this is possible to do with Orphalese Tarot?
By the way, I would like to mention that after having this program for a few days, I am totally addicted to it. It's the best (and most comprehensive) tarot program. You have done some excellent work with this!
take care and blessings from Frances
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Hi Frances,
I am glad to see you are getting to grips with the program - you are finding some of these things I haven't been able to get right yet!
I absolutely agree that the best thing would be for the program to integrate with the user's mail program. That way you would have a nice record of who you had emailed and so on.
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to do this than it is nowadays. A few years ago it was easy to make programs integrate with Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel and Outlook. Office would respond to a whole range of commands that a programmer could send it in code, it was really very neat. When a button was pressed you could fire up Outlook, create a new email, add a bunch of text to it, add an attachment, put some addresses in the To and CC list and send it to the outbox. That could save the user a lot of work! Unfortunately the people who write viruses also saw the potential of this, and so Microsoft have worked hard to put up lots of checks and barriers against scripters abusing this. Outlook has become a very surly and untrusting neighbour as far as other programs are concerned. It throws up lots of alerts or requests for confirmation, or else just refuses to co-operate altogether.
The other possibility would be to use a MailTo URL. It is a bit long winded to do this from a program though. You would have to launch a browser first, and the browser would call the default email program. And all you would succeed in getting is an email open with the addressee. The tarot program could not add any text or attachments, so it would not really save the user any time at all.
Maybe one day I will enhance the mailer form so it shows a record of emails sent etc.
Anyway, I am glad you are enjoying the program - please keep the suggestions coming!
Richard
I am glad to see you are getting to grips with the program - you are finding some of these things I haven't been able to get right yet!
I absolutely agree that the best thing would be for the program to integrate with the user's mail program. That way you would have a nice record of who you had emailed and so on.
Unfortunately it used to be much easier to do this than it is nowadays. A few years ago it was easy to make programs integrate with Microsoft Office products like Word, Excel and Outlook. Office would respond to a whole range of commands that a programmer could send it in code, it was really very neat. When a button was pressed you could fire up Outlook, create a new email, add a bunch of text to it, add an attachment, put some addresses in the To and CC list and send it to the outbox. That could save the user a lot of work! Unfortunately the people who write viruses also saw the potential of this, and so Microsoft have worked hard to put up lots of checks and barriers against scripters abusing this. Outlook has become a very surly and untrusting neighbour as far as other programs are concerned. It throws up lots of alerts or requests for confirmation, or else just refuses to co-operate altogether.
The other possibility would be to use a MailTo URL. It is a bit long winded to do this from a program though. You would have to launch a browser first, and the browser would call the default email program. And all you would succeed in getting is an email open with the addressee. The tarot program could not add any text or attachments, so it would not really save the user any time at all.
Maybe one day I will enhance the mailer form so it shows a record of emails sent etc.
Anyway, I am glad you are enjoying the program - please keep the suggestions coming!
Richard