As for 9-13, I used the line debugger all the time....pretty much every day. I have never experienced any of these issues.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Andrew Scott <andr...@andyscott.id.au> wrote: > > Ok let me clear one thing up, I never said it was a bad product. In fact my > words where I don't think it is a great product, but from what I am hearing > version 3 will be a must have for any developer. Now whether I think it is > worth the price, is indeed my opinion. > > As for the bugs, I don't have the bug numbers on hand but here is a snippet > of some of the ones that I endure on a daily basis. > > 1) When opening the IDE there are times when the colour syntax, and > everything else that is related to ColdFusion just won't work. Granted this > is not very often, but it is often enough to be annoying. > 2) The outline feature never remembers whether it is collapsed or not, and > it should also begin in the collapsed so people can drill in rather than > drill out. > 3) For no reason what so ever the heap will spike to the maximum, and hang > the IDE. This can cause the IDE to be non responsive for upto 2-3 mins, > before it will eventually come back as not responding. > 4) When trying to stop a server in the servers view, the ColdFusion will > eventually report stopped. When you go and restart it at a later stage, it > errors saying that it is already running. Yet the IDE reports this as > stopped, this is more notable on remote servers than local, but I have seen > it on local servers as well. > 5) When closing a lot of windows (Code files) by either using the Mylyn > plugin, or by close all. For every single file closed there will be an error > that will pop up saying something like, the file is not in the webroot or > there is no server associated with the file so it is not able to be viewed. > This is more noticeable when using Mylyn to activate/deactivate tasks, but > as it also happens when not using Mylyn just not as often. > 6) I can be scrolling through a large file and I mean around large, and the > editor will just stop actually scrolling. To the point that the letters are > changing, but they're not disappearing. Eventually you will get a totally > black screen from the characters not updating correctly, the gutter with the > line numbers also will not update when scrolling either. > 7) The undo feature if you make a 1 to 5 letter change, and try to do an udo > then you find that it tries to do an undo somewhere else in the file and you > have to try to do an undo about 10-20 times before it catches upto your > actual changes. This appears to be that it is trying to undo the syntax > stuff, I could be wrong but it is buggy as hell when undoing code. > 8) If you have a project on a UNC path, and close the IDE and re-open it. > Sometimes it thinks that the path is not there and closes the project, even > though you can go to the IDE file view and see the UNC path with no > problems, and this also happens for mapped drives as well. If you try to > open the project an error will occur, the only work around to this is that > you have to go to the IDE's file view and browse into a directory then open > the project. > 9) When running the line debugger, each and every time you hit a break point > the IDE gets slower and slower to fire the breakpoint. > 10) When using the line debugger, and you are stepping through the lines of > code. There are times when the Function Variable, just disappears. So there > is no way to see what variables have been defined for a function. > 11)When using the line debugger, there are times when stepping through large > lines of code in a function it will just exit. Especially when in a loop and > there is a cffile in that loop. > 12) When trying to set a break point to use the line debugger, you will get > told that this line ins unreachable, even when you look at the code it > clearly is reachable. > 13) After awhile the line debugger will just stop firing and you are forced > to close the IDE, and restart it as well as stop and restart the ColdFusion > server. > 14) When typing some code, I can stop and hit the up arrow key before the > color of the code is complete. And then I can get the IDE to have half blue > lines across the screen for every line I scroll too. > 15) Closing of tags is flaky, even with all the right settings if I type > <cfoutput> sometimes I get the closing tag and sometimes I don't > 16) Sometimes the icon to open the log files from the locally running > server, will report that the server does not provide logs or is not local > and other times it just works fine. > > I could go on with a lot more than this, but as these are the ones that I do > see more reguallry than any other bug. A lot of these bugs are productivity > killers, and others are well I'll just close the file and re-open it, to > downright annoying. > > Regards, > Andrew Scott > http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, 27 January 2011 3:13 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: why is cf_builder so expensive? >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Scott >> <andr...@andyscott.id.au> wrote: >> > >> > Mark, I think I made my stance very clear in a previous thread. I did >> > say that the bugs will be fixed in the next release, and I feel that >> > this is wrong and I might be a minority on that, >> >> Might be a minority on that? That's funny... >> >> I have been using CF Builder for at least as long as you have. I use it > every day >> and have yet to encounter any bugs that would make me think its not worth >> the price. >> >> I am curious, what bug is it, that it seems only you have encountered, > that >> makes CFB a bad piece of software, and, according to you, 'will never be >> fixed'? >> >> You surely know the bug number, so, why not share so we can go take a look >> for ourselves. >> >> >> -- >> Scott Stroz > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341516 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
