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Re: [ECS] Active-group item Don Stephens Sun, 18 Jun 2000 07:18:33 -0700

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Ah Ha!! Michael strikes gold!

How does someone with so many kids ever have the time to thinks straight?

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael David" <michael@michaeldavid.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 11:33 PM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Active-group item


> Ha!
>
> I just looked at the first line of your event closely, which I obviously
> didn't do when I pasted it into my reply!  :)
>
> Try:
>
> "If Active-Screen is not Paul's house", instead of "not now."  Not now
means
> "it's not [equal to state] this pass, but was before.  Since this is part
of
> your startup event, the test - as you have it now - can never be true.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 1:25 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Active-group item
>
> As a guess, I would try delaying it a bit to let ECS get the group screen
> drawn.  This is why I suggested using the startup timer as the test.
Then,
> I would eliminate the "If Active-group Is Not Now  Pauls House" test; it
> won't be necessary.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Fitch [mailto:pfitchjr@bellsouth.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 1:21 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Active-group item
>
> No errors.  Also, no response.  Its like the event isn't even running.  My
> entire startup event is included earlier in the post (near the bottom of
> this
> page.)
>
> Michael David wrote:
>
> > I had one more thought...
> >
> > Active-Group does work for this.  What error were you getting when you
> tried
> > to use it to call up your selected group?  If the group screen is in
> monitor
> > mode, and not unsaved (after recent changes) it should work fine.
> >
> > You probably have a startup timer, which is started in your
> > starting/stopping group (or what ever you call it).  You might try
> something
> > like this:
> >
> > If startup timer is now 0
> > Then active-group set paul's house
> >
> > If your startup event is like mine, which only runs once at startup,
> you'll
> > want to make sure that these event lines are before this statement (or
in
> > some other event):
> >
> > If ECS is starting
> > Else event-exit set true
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Michael David
> > michael@michaeldavid.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Fitch [mailto:pfitchjr@bellsouth.net]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 11:47 PM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] Active-group item
> >
> > As near as I can tell, theres no way to put my group before A, since the
> > list is
> > alphabetical<g>.  I've tried to delete the 'A' group but ECS gives me an
> > error.
> > The group appears to have been deleted, but the next time I start ECS
it's
> > back...
> >
> > Martin Terry wrote:
> >
> > > Paul, there may be some way to programmatically set the group, but I
> > believe
> > > A is displayed first because it lists them alphabetically. Make your
> group
> > > name before A and it will appear first.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Fitch [mailto:pfitchjr@bellsouth.net]
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 8:21 PM
> > > To: ECS Mailing List
> > > Subject: [ECS] Active-group item
> > >
> > > Alright, 1st Question.  How do I get ECS to startup on a particular
> > > group?  I've put the following in my startup event, but it doesn't do
> > > what I want.  What I want to do is evident....
> > >
> > > BEGINIF    Start/Stop-Status     Is Now         Starting
> > > If                 Active-group           Is Not Now  Pauls House
> > > Then            Active-group           Set               Pauls House
> > > ENDIF
> > >
> > > Right now ECS starts up and the default group displayed is 'A'.
>
>

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