Re: First message for the FTC mailing list...

Hi Brendan et al,

Thanks for setting up this list. I too am very excited about FTC.
I look forward to using FTC in lots of my apps.
My needs are relative modest in theory, but clearly very difficult in practise. I want a: cross-platform, styled editfield that allows image to be added, saved and printed. 

So I was thrilled when I saw the FTEditField addition to the demo app.
I do have one question, are you able to give us a demo of the spellchecking plugin 'SSCEngine'? Everytime you release a beta of FTC I have to do a dance of deleting of these libraries from the project and then resetting the HAVE_SPELL_CHECKER global. 




At 10:31 PM -0500 31/8/07, Brendan Murphy wrote:

Greetings

I have been waiting for other customers to join the mailing list
before I sent out this first message, but what the heck here goes.
The purpose of this message is to test out the changes I made to
the mailing list and for you to give me feedback on the format of
the mailing list. Currently I have advertised the existence of the
list to only customers who have bought an FTC license. For now, I
want to keep the list size relatively small so I can focus on your
needs as beta testers of the FTC and thus improve the FTC itself.
My plan is to officially advertise the existence of the mailing
list when I release beta 14. After beta 14 the FTC will go into
final candidate status as I jump into writing the documentation
full time.

One of the purposes of this mailing list is for you guys to share
your expertise with the FTC with others on the list. Also I would
like to see discussions on how I can improve the FTC. You can also
report bugs here instead of sending email to me directly since I
am intently reading the list. Reporting bugs here on the list will
be helpful to others since it will make everyone aware of the bug
and eliminate duplicate effort of reporting the bug.

Another purpose of this list is to leverage my time more
effectively by sharing my solutions to your problems with every
one. I have privately answered quite a few questions along the way
that may have been useful to others. So from now on, I will try to
answer your questions on the mailing list and thus share the
knowledge.

FYI, I have been steadily working on preview 12 and I should have
it posted fairly soon. I am starting to get excited about the
state of development of the FTC since it is now has all the
features in place and I am only working on bug fixes. In other
words, the FTC is feature complete and there is light at the end
of the tunnel. Now I just need all get all those fancy features to
play nicely together!

From now on, I will post preview update notices on the mailing
list instead of using my mass mailing program. Note, if you need a
mass mailing program, I have been using "MaxBulk Mailer" which I
saw in RBDeveloper magazine. It is a pretty useful program and I
give it a solid recommendation.

In my search for a mailing list provider, www.FreeLists.org seemed
to be the best and it is free and has all bells an whitsles. If
you need to start a mailing list, check out www.FreeLists.org. A
huge step up from yahoo groups or some other solution. So tell me
how you like FreeLists.org stuff if you have an opinion.

Also, feel free to start some unending off topic discussion just
like on the NUG...just kidding. ;-)

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Cheers,

Dr Gerard Hammond
MacSOS Solutions Pty Ltd
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Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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