1st page quirks and foibles

[paganbabe]

Greetings all,
I am but a lowly user of very little brain, but I will endeavour to explain my problem with 1st page.

1.The program seems to lose my carefully entered preferences on every startup.

2.I have experienced a program hang in mid edit of my pages which result in content being wiped off. source is blank, preview works but only on the page reviously selected, eg I can see preview of page meat.html when cake.html is selected. I tray valiantly to save the page before I get the dialog: page"" has been modified, save changes?

I know then that all is lost....:eek:

3. when editing a row of pages then saving, multiple save, (save all open pages) refuses to work, I have to go through and save individually unless events outlined in #2 have occurred in that case it's too late.

4.my own efforts to try and cure my problems have come to nought, I had the program bought for me by my partner, the version with the 1 year template sub, which I have never managed to activate. I bought a two year sub, in my own name... (partner doesn't k now) it activated...

I have tried two reinstalls, and one virgin install.. I have tried editing pages with very little else running on my w2k machine. disconnected internet, firewall antivirus and all unnecessary programs, and this makes little or no difference to the amount of program freezes and crashes.

I can only assume that I need a complete re-install of my operating system, and a memory upgrade to give 1st page the memory and space it so richly deserves.

If anyone can help me cure the program niggles without the drastic measure of a W2k /OS re-install I would be eternally grateful, I might even bake you a cake:)

Thank you for your time.

Windows 2000 service pack 4 (on laptop Clip fan blowing on top, 3 fans blowing underneath.)

Avg free antivirus,
Zonealarm pro firewall,
Win patrol ~(Scotty dog)
30gb hard drive
751.028kb ram,
CPU 2.40 ghz

Nikki.

[Terminator1138]

Nikki, I feel your pain, I don't think this has anything to do with your system, I think 1st page is just still buggy and Admin has never fixed anything let alone show signs of activity.

Thank you for putting your system specs so if Admin does show up, perhaps he can fix this isssue for you. The RAM you have should be way more than what First page needs and some have reported FP eating up memory over time. CPU is way more that what Firstpage needs also. Windows 2000 is extremly stable and this should not be the issue also.

I wish I could help you in this matter but without word from "Admin" and any communication, I'm afraid this issue will not be fixed anytime soon. Perhaps a better programmer than myself (which will not take much) might shed some light for you.

[paganbabe]

Dear terminator,
Thanks for your support, Will persevere with the program, and will save dilligently!
I've got into the habit of backing up a copy of my pages to desktop, just in case the "what page? I see no page.... " thing happens again.

I'm practising paranoia, one day when they're not watching, I hope to get it right...:)

[streetsweeper]

I tried FP2006 for a few days & noticed that it's rather hoggish on system resources. I run W2K(SP4) on a P3 550 and not sure how to else to explain it, lol. I don't want Evrsoft to think I'm slamming their hardwork & product by any means.

What I've done so far has been to log on in admin mode & set everything to run in the "run as background" on the properties page. It helps some but not like or at least like I expected it too.

A pointer on Win2K; it's a hog on it's own anyway, loading up every kind of service imaginable by default. Many of those I've turned off but it still bogs down from time to time. I run a gig of PC 133 memory, P3 550 & off load the sound processing to a high def audio card along with some of the fastest hard drives available.

A lot of how a program runs depends greatly on the compiler used & whether or not it's written to run on a minimal PC like a P4 or P3 even. I used to be into programming Windows (starting with 3.0 & up to 2K) as time went by I got away from it. I may still have those sdk's lol! I'll go back through what I've down with my PC & post a list of services you don't need to run, okie dokie?

[Terminator1138]

Thanks streetsweeper, FP2006 has been buggy for many to continue to use it. However I will note that if you post any service mods etc that you put a disclaimer that its a use at your risk only thing.

[Flying Dutchman]

Wouldn't it be time to relieve Admin from his duties and make FP2006 open source, hosted by sourceforge?

I don't think EVRSoft is making much money now with selling their product.

[Spock]

Wouldn't it be time to relieve Admin from his duties ...

I don't think you can "relieve" someone from owning their own product. :hmmm:

I'm sure he isn't making any money on 1st Page 2006. I'm also fairly certain he is actively involved in other areas of his life right now or he would at least come in and give us some information periodically.

While I definitely think it would be nice if 1stPage 2006 were fixed so it works properly, I'm also sure he will never release it to the public domain as long as he feels he may be able to actually use it to earn some sort of recompense for all the labor he has given to both it and 1st Page 2000.

Those of us still here are here only in the hope that something will eventually come of all this.

[Terminator1138]

I'm sure it contains proprietary code like the wrapper from Chris of which was donated in a few history threads back. Its been discussed and some reasons were explained but still would be a good opensource project.

AFAIK, everything around FP including some history has been going downhill. Look a code-builders, site has been down for ages and also their software. In time so will FP2006.

I'm not sure what Admin does or what he is a part of but I'm guessing he's working for some place making software, but that is just a wild guess. Who knows really.

[Flying Dutchman]

I am sure he isn't making any money now on 1stPage2006 and he will never.

A 1stP type web-editor is not to be called rocket-science and investing more time in the debugging would be a waste of time as lots of alternatives, some even freeware are available.

This together with the likelihood that most users (amateurs like me) would opt for the freeware version anyway supports my idea.

Admin should be able to spend his time than more effectively in terms of earning money.

[Terminator1138]

I agree, I would like to see it become opensource, if it did, I think some commercial applications might open their eyes and try to produce better yet at same time free editors would really allow for some neat directions..

[SundayNiagara]

I agree, I would like to see it become opensource, if it did, I think some commercial applications might open their eyes and try to produce better yet at same time free editors would really allow for some neat directions..

Excellent idea. I still have FP2K loaded on my desktop and use it just to avoid that despised nag screen.

[Terminator1138]

Honestly, I think other free editors are starting to surpass FP as they continue to develop each year features and addons. Even some low cost editors are making there way onto computers.