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Sometimes, MailCaddie does not recognize Outlook 2000/XP as the 'MAPI-client'. Various error messages are presented and no E-mail message is composed.
The cause may very well be an incompatible system file. Outlook 2000/XP has a 'Detect & Repair' option in the 'Help' menu. Issuing this command may solve the problem.

If you encounter 'MAPI'-errors and your E-mail application is not Outlook 2000/XP (or the problem remains after you tried Outlook's 'Detect & Repair') the problem may be solved by running a small program called Fixmapi.exe, which sits in the \Windows\system or the Windows\system32 directory. It is a small Microsoft utility which, Microsoft says, can not do any harm. Basically, it replaces the file 'Mapi32.dll' with a correct version. Apparently, some applications overwrite 'Mapi32.dll' with their own, non-compatible versions.
There is an item about this in Outlook 2000 Help. Search for something like 'Solving problems with Office E-mail' or 'mapi'.

Ja, dat mag, onder voorwaarde dat het volledig gebeurt, inclusief de meegeleverde broncode. U mag zelfs wijzigingen in het programma aanbrengen, mits de auteurs­rechten­passages in de diverse bronbestanden ongewijzigd worden overgenomen. Ragmania wordt gedistribueerd onder de zogenaamde GNU General Public License van de Free Software Association, waarin dat allemaal haarfijn wordt geregeld.

Misschien niet met Inuktitut, Nepalees of Oegaritisch. Maar met een bijpassende woordenlijst moet Ragmania ook overweg kunnen met veel andere talen, mits ze in gewone (Ascii-) letters zijn uit te drukken. Het enige taalafhankelijke element in het hart van Ragmania zit hem in de veronderstelde letterfrequentie, die gebaseerd is op het Nederlands. Het betekent dat de q als uiterst zeldzaam wordt beschouwd, tienduizend keer zo zeldzaam als de e. In het Frans bijvoorbeeld liggen de verhoudingen wat anders, maar de afwijking zal niet zo groot zijn dat Ragmania onbruikbaar wordt. Woordenlijsten zijn op verschillende plaatsen op internet te vinden; zie het lijstje links hiernaast. Links

• Terminology Collections - online dictionaries
• Word2word - woordenlijsten in 951 talen
• All Free Dic­tion­ar­ies Project
• Universität Wien - woordenlijsten in een aantal gangbare talen (ftp)
• Universität Paderborn - grote collectie
• The Linguist List
• Linguistic Data Resources
• Mike’s Collection of Web-Dictionaries
• The A-Z of Dictionaries

Jazeker. Een woordenlijst is een gewoon tekstbestand met op iedere regel een woord, of een combinatie van woorden. Er mogen spaties, cijfers en leestekens in staan, maar Ragmania negeert die. Er mogen geen ‘grafische’ aanhalingstekens of andere bijzondere tekens in staan. Letters met diakritische tekens (accenten, zoals ä, é, ô, ç) worden door Ragmania omgezet in gewone letters. De volgorde van de woorden doet er niet toe.

Tilt version 1.1 was designed to handle a problem in Access 97. This application did not handle transparent ActiveX controls i.m.h.o. Consequently multiple single-lined rotated text controls would overlap each other when put closely together.
This problem still exists in Access 2000 and in Access XP, so Tilt MultiLabel will be useful in that context too. Version 1.2 is greatly improved and now works in many more situations. Tilt 1.2 is distributed with an Access 2000 demo database and a Word 2000 demo document.
Tilt 1.2 works in Excel spreadsheets too, but frankly, it is hardly of real use with this application. Excel has quite sophisticated means to rotate text built in and even allows you to place rotated text labels close to each other, just like Tilt 1.2.

I know! PowerPoint plays havoc with Tilt’s Spacing property. I'm investigating the problem but on the other hand, I can live with it. If you have any suggestions, I’ll be grateful to hear them.

Not really. Technically it is possible: Tilt 1.2 is an ActiveX control and as such can be embedded in HTML code. But only Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows displays ActiveX controls. Netscape won’t, unless it has a special plugin, and Internet Explorer for the Mac won’t either.
On top of that, there is another serious limitation: most browsers even refuse to download Tilt 1.2. The reason is that it has no authenticity code built in.
Most modern browsers expect this authenticity code in ActiveX controls as a means of security. An evil or ill-designed control can do lots of damage to your computer, so this is a good thing. (Rest assured: Tilt 1.2 will not do any harm to your system.)
Alas, getting an ActiveX authenticity code is not something for the small software developer. These codes are distributed to commercial developers only and cost a fee of $400 a year. Cruquius Soft is hardly a commercial firm and for the time being is not willing to pay this amount for a freeware product such as Tilt, as I am sorry to say.
Tilt 1.2 MultiLabel is designed to solve a specific problem with Microsoft Access, which does not handle transparent controls properly. Tilt 1.2 works well in this context. It can be used in other ActiveX containers like Excel, Word or Visual Basic.
Browsers are the exception. If you have previously downloaded and installed Tilt 1.2 MultiLabel on your computer, it is not that bad. Tilt will be displayed normally.
If you have not installed Tilt 1.2 MultiLabel, the situation is worse. The browser will try to find the control on the internet. In most cases, it will next refuse to download it, the exception being when the browser’s security level is set to low (which, of course, no sensible user should do). Tilt 1.2 will never be displayed.
So the conclusion is: Tilt 1.2 MultiLabel is really not usable on a web page. I’m sorry!

Tilt 1.2 MultiLabel is a full ActiveX control. Consequently many development platforms can handle it. Using Tilt 1.2 in Visual Basic is a snap: just drop it on a form. Adding Tilt 1.2 to a Visual C++ project is, of course, a little bit more involved. Tilt is distributed with a sample project in Visual Basic 6.0 and a  MFC project for Visual C++ 6.0. Tilt 1.2 itself was developed with Visual C++’s ATL framework.

Well…Let me first state that I understand your question. Tilt 1.2 shows its age (it is from July 2000) and really needs some fix-ups. But at this point in time there is no new version of Tilt in the works. It might change, though.