This is a SIMPLE request. It could be added in five minutes, and I would appreciate it if you added it.

This involves use of the local scheduler. This doesn't happen to me often, but it does happen on occasion (and I'm sure it's happened to others). I've got the auctions lined up, ready to go, but by mistake I click "Schedule now". Once this happens there is NO WAY to cancel the operation. You get the immediate question of "Do you want to upload photos" with a YES/NO response. Could you please add a CANCEL button to this window? The only way now to cancel the unintended schedule is to bring up the Windows Task Manager and kill the program. Not graceful at all.

This should not take you long to add. Please consider it, and please consider doing it quickly.

Thank you.

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Originally posted by JeffS:
This is a SIMPLE request. It could be added in five minutes, and I would appreciate it if you added it.

This involves use of the local scheduler. This doesn't happen to me often, but it does happen on occasion (and I'm sure it's happened to others). I've got the auctions lined up, ready to go, but by mistake I click "Schedule now". Once this happens there is NO WAY to cancel the operation. You get the immediate question of "Do you want to upload photos" with a YES/NO response. Could you please add a CANCEL button to this window? The only way now to cancel the unintended schedule is to bring up the Windows Task Manager and kill the program. Not graceful at all.

This should not take you long to add. Please consider it, and please consider doing it quickly.

Thank you.

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Hey, JeffS
It MIGHT work! I asked for a find and replace about a year and a half ago and they actually put one in, UNDOUBTEDLY because *I* asked for it!!

Good luck!
Jan

As soon as you get the arrow back, click on the preview or general tab. That will kill the post window.

No Dale, not while using the local schduler. You can't do that. There is no post window. No 'second chances'. But, since Auctiva has not responded either way, I'm assuming nothing will be done, so I'll have to live with just killing the program when I make this mistake.

JeffS.....

I've often wondered how it is that they CHOOSE the questions they answer, since so many are WORTHY of answers but never get them.

"Close your eyes, turn around twice, and hit it with a pin. THAT'S the one you'll answer."

anon in dayton

Don't know Jan. Guess they're busy on other stuff. It's always been tough to get small things changed or added. It's frustrating...

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Have you ever written a line of C++ in your life?

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As a matter of fact, yes. For a living. I've been programming for 28 years. In Assembler, C, C++, Basic, & Visual Basic, for the PC and for embedded applications.

I'm so certain that all you have to do is add another button to a control form (that already displays) and have it take an exit. Of this, I'm fairly sure.

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However many of the things you've requested either aren't easy or aren't things many people would want.

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Did you keep a list of them? I know of only a few that were added. Most were forgotten about. I sincerly doubt anything I ever asked for was 'trivial' from a usability point of view to any user. If all you're going to do is add things when many people ask for it, then the programs end up in the state they are in now: no new additions or changes for ages.

I don't count the recent API changes, because they are mostly for your sake (for maintainability), not ours. They relieve you (Auctiva) of the the continual eBay catch-up when data pages change. Yes, they add reliability, but from a usability stand point, they added nothing to our UI. In fact, they took away something: the preview in Poster.

Nothing I ever asked for didn't come from a place where I myself did not think about how it could be implimented.


So please, be less inclined to pick on people when they ask for things. And, if you're not a programmer yourself don't go around being insulting with "Well, did YOU ever program?", because you know what, some of us have and know what 'simple' means.

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Originally posted by JeffS:

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Have you ever written a line of C++ in your life?

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As a matter of fact, yes. For a living. I've been programming for 28 years. In Assembler, C, C++, Basic, & Visual Basic, for the PC and for embedded applications.

I'm so certain that all you have to do is add another button to a control form (that already displays) and have it take an exit. Of this, I'm fairly sure.

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However many of the things you've requested either aren't easy or aren't things many people would want.

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Did you keep a list of them? I know of only a few that were added. Most were forgotten about. I sincerly doubt anything I ever asked for was 'trivial' from a usability point of view to any user. If all you're going to do is add things when many people ask for it, then the programs end up in the state they are in now: _no new additions or changes for ages._

I don't count the recent API changes, because they are mostly for your sake (for maintainability), not ours. They relieve you (Auctiva) of the the continual eBay catch-up when data pages change. Yes, they add reliability, but from a usability stand point, they added nothing to our UI. In fact, they took away something: the preview in Poster.

Nothing I ever asked for didn't come from a place where I myself did not think about how it could be implimented.


So please, be less inclined to pick on people when they ask for things. And, if you're not a programmer yourself don't go around being insulting with "Well, did _YOU_ ever program?", because you know what, some of us have and know what 'simple' means.

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Go get em, Jeff! They don't KNOW how many people want anything because evidently the only thing Tom knows how to do is be sarcastic and snotty on these boards.

They're getting ready to re-enable the pottery and glass categories since their last foray into using only IS was a bust and nobody sold NUTHIN...........but it'll be interesting to see whether or not Auctiva NEEDS to change, and even more interesting, whether they even ANSWER when we ASK if we need changes.

Boy, it sure was more simple four years ago.