RE: GUICAT oddities

["Winecoff, Michael" <mkwineco@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gale,

We had a similar situation in Guicat version 3.2k. We had to go into Tools
-- Options -- Display and uncheck Maximize all windows. After restarting
Guicat, the tabs worked fine. This seemed illogical, but it worked in our
case.

Michael Winecoff
Atkins Library - Systems
UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
704-687-2072


-----Original Message-----
From: Gale E. Eckerson [mailto:geckerso@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:33 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: GUICAT oddities


Dear Colleagues:

We are puzzling over some GUICAT oddities that occur on 
specific PCs, not even on all PCs within the same building. 
Perhaps some of you have encountered these and can offer 
some advice, and if there is a fix, please let me know.

This is the pattern on one PC only, in a building that has 
several PCs connected to GUICAT. The PCs appear to have 
the same specs, same operating system, same version of 
GUICAT.

After working successfully in the function for some variable 
length of time, the operator is suddenly unable to double-click 
on an item from the item summary list and have it open the 
item record. Absolutely nothing happens. Other aspects, such 
as searching, still work fine, so we know the function has not 
crashed. And/or, once in an item record, the price field cannot 
be updated. (Other fields can.) That is if the operator tries to 
click directly into the price cell. If she clicks on the itype cell 
and then tabs to the price cell, then she can't do anything in 
the itype cell either. 

And--this is always true--she cannot adjust the columns on 
the item summary screen. (Initially the column headers and 
what's in the columns don't match, and in 99% of our PCs this 
is perfectly easy to fix and stays fixed forever. On this 
particular PC, she can make the correction but once she logs 
off of GUICAT it reverts to its old way.)

And--this is also always true--she cannot stretch or shrink the 
columns on the browse screens. The "cross" character won't 
even display. On all the other PCs in the same building, this 
problem does not exist.

The person who most often encounters these problems does 
not encounter them on the other PCs, so I am discounting any 
operator error here.

Any ideas?

Thank you for all your great suggestions on various other 
topics!


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Gale E. Eckerson
Manager, Library Applications
C/W MARS Inc.
1 Sunset Lane
Paxton, MA 01612
(508) 755-3323 ext. 27
(508) 755-3721 (FAX)
e-mail: geckerso@xxxxxxxxxx
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