Valentina 2 for Director vs Valentina 1

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/31/06 12:47 AM, "Warren Metzger" <wmetzger at kencook.com> wrote:

Hi Warren, 

> I am authoring in Director MX 2004 for Windows and need to update the
> content of the project. The Director script (lingo) and the database
> instructions were all built using Valentina 1.8.7 or Valentina 1.9.0 using
> Director 8.5. I have questions:
> 
> 1. When I publish Director projector Valentina does not work reliably. Works
> OK on some computers and not on others. All are WINXP SP2. On some computers
> it will not recognize the user when they log back in. On other systems it
> will not always export the data as requested. Is this a Director or
> Valentina problem?

Login? inTo Windows?  How this is related to Valentina?

Export of data from Valentina? Via Cursor? Yes this is related to Valentina.
So what problems you get here?
 
> 2. If I must convert to Valentina 2 do I need to rewrite all of the lingo
> that is used to query and build the database?

Many changes enough.
 
> 3. I understand there is a conversion tool. Does it only convert the
> Valentina data or does it also update the lingo? How reliable is it?

data
 
> 4. Is there a list of which handlers changed from Valentina 1 to Valentina 2
> and samples of how to implement the changes?

No full list. V4MD developers usually did not upgrade old projects, only
created new.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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