Chris May

This is a company that sells a tournament bracket componet. Looks cool.

Last night I finished up my last bit of testing, and put up the installs on the website.

The purchase pages are linked up and ready to go. So now I can take a long deserved break right? Wrong!! I have to spend the rest of the weekend working on a project (a flash game) for a client of mine.

Those bills arn't going to pay themselves!

I have been looking into more options for online CC processing. I am using www.v-share.com for this release of Tennis Charter, because it allows me to do real-time issuing of unlock codes. Pretty nice, and it isn't very expensive.

In the future, I am looking toward other things, like maybe using .netCharge, which is a .net component that you use to interface with various processors/gateways. For the money, ($125), I'm not sure it is really worth it. It's features are: Seamless Integration (ok so I am saved a few lines of code... only a few), Common Interface (ok, you can switch processors without changing code.. some value here), Logging (text logs.. good again), AVS Support (this is really provided by the processor), Card Verification Code (again, just passing data to the processors), Transaction Types (real-time, authorization, processing, void, refund... ok), Test mode, Timeouts, Returns and Error codes, Prevalidation, Database Logging (very cool, it encrypts the data and puts it in a SQL Server... pretty cool), etc..

Ok, it is pretty cool. But lots of these features are lost of people that arn't running a "WebStore".

One of the processors it works with is http://www.authorizenet.com which is one of the few companies to describe (technically) how their stuff works. Most sites describe it like "Customer enters credit card information. Credit card information is sent to our servers" blah blah blah.

If you are lost, this diagram might help explain it.

I've been writing this tennis software for years now, and I'm just about finished with it.

But, I am still getting this problem using the CASL grid object in older Palms.

In OS4.x, any label that I have in a grid will end with "..." if it is too long for the label, but in my emulator of OS3.0, or on my old PalmIII, the labels overflow their grid cells, making for an ugly picture.

I thought I had resolved this problem by using Textboxes instead of grids, but the problem with Textboxes I found out, is that they wrap, and you can't keep them from wrapping. So if someone's name is long enough, you will only see the first part of their name. Not good.

Here are the images, with a 2 column grid with the 2nd col being a 1% col overflowing. The OS 3-2, image clearly shows the overflow problem.
OS 3
OS 3-2
OS 4

My brother is going to go to the IHSA tournament today to hand out flyers for Tennis Charter Software.

I was going to do this last night but I fell asleep way to early. I have really not been getting enough sleep lately, and I guess it caught up to me. Now where did Kathleen put my old Palm....