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Thanks for the vote of confidence.

By continuous roll, I mean the Brother comes with a label roll that is not precut – so you can print a label 1000mm long if you wanted to! The Dymo does not seem to offer this feature. OK, I’m unlikely to want a 1 metre label, but the idea of not being locked into predetermined label dimensions is attractive to the non-conformist in me.

Anyone have any experience with the Brother printers?

That was my point exactly. Over on sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/poxy/ the project seems to have closed:
2007-01-20, PHProxy 0.5 beta 2 released!
2007-09-07, this project is no longer under active development.

Sadly the forums etc were all at the link in my original post, so they’ve disappeared. I would have liked to find an update as it was code that I trusted.

Thanks Hans.
I might group the text to the decision box instead of to the connector, and then copy those around.
As for alternative software, I have only user privileges, so it’s a matter of making do with what’s already on the box.

Thanks again

Here ‘Tis. I’ve not changed anything as yet…

Library got a hammering today. Brain to follow shortly.

Oh Dear.
I also noticed another funny behaviour in IE6 on the contact page which I saw today. If you hover over the email address in the main div, it blanks out part of the navigation div. The other page like it had a trailing full stop and doesn’t do it, might try that. Back to the problem at hand: I copied the css from a sample/tutorial; I’m happy to take out the 80% width for the p tag (I didn’t even realise it was there!) – is this expected to solve the issue or is there something else going on? It also seems that two different IE7 browsers are giving different results, is that expected?

Have I taken what has been suggested and implemented it poorly? (I deliberately chose the elements I liked best). What is meant by the box model – is it time for me to get a book perhaps?

Is it possible to have IE6 and IE7 installed on a single machine?

Thanks for your time guys. I spent some effort over the weekend rejigging the site. Now it’s css & xhtml, and took a bit of time sorting out the javascript (didn’t realise I’d have a problem there, I presume it’s xhtml being more strict than html). Anyhow, all is well (er, except I haven’t had a chance to test the result with IE – there’s a dangerous assumption!!).

Thanks.
It’ll take me a little while to digest all of what you’ve done, but I like the sounds of it – and have a fixed page! I didn’t even know about xhtml, but will convert the rest of the site (won’t be too hard).
Seeing how someone does code is a great way to learn, so, no, very happy you were prepared to do that.

Thanks again,
Marty

The “well established framework…etc” sounds a very good thing; sounds like good practice to me.
My current project is to establish a secure web proxy, primarily for my own use. Since it’s my own domain, it’s hardly a anonymiser and that’s not the point. But I will be accessing secure sites and I’d prefer to maintain that security. A wiki would come later. The challenge is my current knowledge level.

I don’t believe that content management is important, partly because I’m used to structured modification and rollback but mostly because I have so little of it. It’s the basic domain admin stuff that I’m looking for – the foundations of how domain security is understood and implemented.

Replying to myself rather than to Jezza and Jeff.

I validated the html. It’s 4.01 transitional. Validates as strict too, if you change the doctype.
The css seems to conform to LoVeHAte.

Attached index.html and myCSS.css for brighter eyes than mine.
Also to be seen at http://www.greatcircle.net.au[/url%5D; viewing pleasure currently depends on browser.

thanks for your thoughts so far

Thanks guys – I’ve been out of the office for a couple of days. I was going to post a link to the solution we found – but it’s the same page recommended by Hans!!

Thanks again

1. Take yer berries, halve them depending on size. Add a dash (just a dash!) of grand marnier / cointreau and a few good grinds of fresh black pepper (yes, you read that right). Mix, and allow to sit for a couple of minutes. Real cream is optional but try it without first. The smell is as important as the taste. Before you all freak out, this is a classic recipe.

2. Take yer berries, halve them depending on size. Add a dash of real orange juice and a teaspoon of sugar. Mix, and allow to sit for a couple of minutes. Cream allowed here.

3. There is another variation which I have only heard of – apparently strawberries go well with balsamic vinegar. Have a go.

I was being too clever(?) and used the alias rather than the function call. I tried
WHERE Not IsNull(ItemValue);
Following your post and converting to SQL view gives
WHERE (((GetItemValue([Enter InitialConditionID],[ItemID])) Is Not Null));

And there I was wondering about relationships and such…

Thanks,
Marty

Just an observation..
I found an interesting difference in execution time. Development to date has been on a network drive, with no observable performance impact on report generation.
With about 90 rows in tblItems (we’d expect 3 -4 times this many), only 3 InitialConditions (with incomplete details), the report took 21 seconds to generate over the network. When I moved the database to the local drive the report was fast enough not to be concerned. For reference, the PC is P4 3GHz 1GB XPsp1.

That does the job very nicely!!! Thankyou for the effort you’ve gone to.

Just a tiny thing not related to recursiveness, is there a way to exclude those ItemNames whose ItemValue is null? An easy way is to use a wrapper query:
SELECT * FROM qryGetItemValues WHERE Not IsNull(ItemValue);
I don’t quite understand why a similar construction does not work in the query itself – I am interested to undertand this aspect a little better.

Thanks again for your help,
Marty

Beautiful. Thanks Hans.