Hi Peter,
I read your email about your problem. I agree that this situation is
very frustrating.
And someone from RealSoftware should have addressed it by now.
Try to describe in detail when those random errors occur and when they
occur which sections
of your program they occur.
I do not know much of the Realsoftware people. But the one I was in
contact with in the past, where all
very helpfull. The one I find most helpfull is Aaron Ballman and his
email is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
If I where you, I should try him, if he can he will surely help you.
Another possibility is using one of the RealBasic forums. You have
RealSoftware forum at :
http://forums.realsoftware.com/
Or you can visit the Realgurus forum at :
http://realgurus.com/board/
There are so many very little things which go wrong in an application.
When I read your problem,
I think there is a conflict somewhere between your code and another
program or extension. Did
you try out your compiled application on another platform? Maybe you can
try your program on Windows
and running it with minimal extensions (protected mode). See how it
behaves then. Needles to say that in this
mode your program has little options coming from the system.
Also you can shut off as many extensions possible. You try your program.
When it is working fine, activate
one extension again and try your program again. When it is working fine
continue this process. In this way you
find out maybe where the conflict is.
Also trying our your application inside the RealBasic IDE is completely
different than running it as a stand alone
program.
I was guessing here and after looking to your former post, I think you
already tried all this. I am sure you are an
experienced programmer. Therefore contact Realsoftware. When they do
not respond, phone them directly until
you get an satisfying answer.
It should be pitty that you loose two months of hard work for such
difficult errors. In my opinion Realsoftware has also
a responsibility here and they should reply anyway to you.
So if anyone of RealSoftware reads this, I can only give them one advice
for good public relations; reply to this problem
and make sure this problem is solved.
I wish you a very nice day and all the best! I hope your problem will be
solved very soon.
Friendly greetings,
Bad_Wolf
Peter K. Stys wrote:
the problem with upgrading and trying for yourself is this: you'll do
fine with simple projects while getting the feel for the new compiler,
and in fact I very much like the look-and-feel of RB2006. Then you
settle in for a big job, and you find more and more minor irritants
like GUI quirks, and major problems like random (but all too frequent)
application crashes. I've been chasing a random crash in one of my fn
calls for 2 months now, and really don't think it's my fault (I posted
a msg recently with no reply, no surprise, how does one help out with
a random memory fault exception). If I don't fix the problem, my app
is dead in the water, and my only consolation is that I don't make a
living from it.
I am once again looking at moving to Xcode for good, but keep coming
back to RB because of its simplicity. But if I spend 2 months chasing
1 bug unsuccessfully, then one day the balance will be tipped and I
will have to make the (huge) jump to another dev tool.
What will happen when the compiler moves to Universal and Cocoa? I
sympathize with RS and am sure they're making every effort, but at the
end of the day, I chase many bugs that are not mine, instead of being
productive.
The love-hate relationship continues unfortunately....
Peter.
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