> 1) We know that two Toshibas give "out of memory" errors when
> converting to .gifs. These units have to have the student
> inks and logs transferred to another machine and have
> the conversion done there.
>
> Should we re-think the conversion process? IE, should
> we transfer inks and logs for *all* untits and do the
> processing that way?
I had a thought and of course forgot it when I saw you (Jason) yesterday.
What about having a seperate "maintenance" program that perhaps might be
written in regular VB rather than pen-based?
Advantages:
1) We could run it on a more powerful machine and let it do the merging.
Perhaps it could find the inks in the proper folder and merge them with a
common set of original bitmaps for a certain date.
2) One common annoyance is when the process doesn't work for one reason or
another, I have to start it all over from the beginning. For instance, say
the bitmaps have been merged and it stops in the gif process. I have to
start over from the bitmap merging process. It would be nice if there was
more control. Could this possibly even be handled by a script? Does VB do
the merging or is it calling on some other program?
Just a thought,
Dale