[ANN] Licensing and support changes

[aparajita]

Hi all,

As of this morning, the pricing, licensing and support policies for  
Active4D have changed. In short, I am more or less going back to the  
way things were a year ago.

PRICING
Pricing has reverted to the old scheme: $700 per deployment for the  
first year, $130 per deployment per year thereafter.

LICENSING
Each deployment license must be renewed yearly in order to qualify for  
IP address changes.

SUPPORT
The Premium Support forums are now locked for posting. All support  
will move back to the mailing list. I feel this will be much better  
for everyone. Those who purchased Premium Support within the last year  
will be compensated in some way, most likely through some sort of pro-
rated discount on your next license renewal.

Sorry if the changes causes any confusion. The current system turned  
out to be unworkable and financially unsustainable. A synopsis of the  
new licensing and support policies can be found at:

  http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/licensing.php

Thank you for your patience and for your continued support!

Regards,

    Aparajita
    www.aparajitaworld.com

    "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
    - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org

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[Mike Vogt]

Aparajita,
I'm fine with the pricing change (reversion).  Is there a way we can find
out when the yearly renewal for IP based deployment will expire so we can
just pay the $130.00 and not $700?

Mike Vogt
Willsub Technical Support

 

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> Subject: [Active4d-dev] [ANN] Licensing and support changes
>
> Hi all,
>
> As of this morning, the pricing, licensing and support
> policies for Active4D have changed. In short, I am more or
> less going back to the way things were a year ago.
>
> PRICING
> Pricing has reverted to the old scheme: $700 per deployment
> for the first year, $130 per deployment per year thereafter.
>
> LICENSING
> Each deployment license must be renewed yearly in order to
> qualify for IP address changes.
>
> SUPPORT
> The Premium Support forums are now locked for posting. All
> support will move back to the mailing list. I feel this will
> be much better for everyone. Those who purchased Premium
> Support within the last year will be compensated in some way,
> most likely through some sort of pro- rated discount on your
> next license renewal.
>
> Sorry if the changes causes any confusion. The current system
> turned out to be unworkable and financially unsustainable. A
> synopsis of the new licensing and support policies can be found at:
>
>   http://www.aparajitaworld.com/site/products/Active4D/licensing.php
>
> Thank you for your patience and for your continued support!
>
> Regards,
>
>     Aparajita
>     www.aparajitaworld.com
>
>     "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
>     - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org
>
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[aparajita]

>
> Is there a way we can find
> out when the yearly renewal for IP based deployment will expire so  
> we can
> just pay the $130.00 and not $700?

Yes, I will send out renewal notices starting a few weeks in advance.

Regards,

    Aparajita
    www.aparajitaworld.com

    "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
    - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org

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[Mike Vogt]

Hi all,
It's pretty lame, but I have not ever tried to use javascript or any other
tools (AJAX; JSON; extjs) to be able to make a call back to fusebox from a
<select> that would then return data to populate a second <select> on the
same form. I've always worked around this deficiency in my toolkit/knowledge
by making my clients make the first <select>, then posting and returning
with the second <select> on a new page.  It's really, really lame!! Can
someone point to the means of incorporating the necessary tools into the
Active4D/Fusebox environment, please?  It's way past time I do this, but I
don't have time right now of changing the environment drastically.  It would
greatly help if I could get some config info as well as some sample code to
make the calls and receive the data back.  

TIA,
Mike Vogt
Willsub Technical Support


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[aparajita]

> It's pretty lame, but I have not ever tried to use javascript or any  
> other
> tools (AJAX; JSON; extjs) to be able to make a call back to fusebox  
> from a
> <select> that would then return data to populate a second <select>  
> on the
> same form.

There are plenty of examples out there on how to populate a select  
dynamically using JSON data. A quick google search for "populate  
select json" brings up lots.

As to how to return JSON data from Active4D/fusebox, there are several  
examples in the a4d.json chapter of the docs. You can also look at the  
demo site source code, I have a whole ExtJS Ajax-based demo there.

There is nothing magical about Ajax, as far as Active4D is concerned  
it is just another request from a browser. You can return HTML or  
JSON. If you return HTML, you can just replace the contents of an  
element on the page. If you return JSON, you have to write javascript  
code to iterate through the data and create the dom elements you want.

One important thing is to add the following code in all  
fbx_layouts.a4d in circuits that might handle an Ajax fuseaction:

// Don't use layouts with Ajax
if (request info{"X-Requested-With"} = "XMLHttpRequest")
        $fusebox{"layoutDir"}  := ""
        $fusebox{"layoutFile"} := ""
else
        $fusebox{"layoutDir"}  := "views/layouts"  // or wherever your  
layouts live
        $fusebox{"layoutFile"} := "lay_main.a4d"   // or whatever the  
appropriate layout is
end if


Regards,

    Aparajita
    www.aparajitaworld.com

    "If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
    - Sri Chinmoy   |   www.srichinmoy.org

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