Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-28 Thread Robert Brenstein
Well I wish I knew what you were doing differently from me! I have been using Rev for about 18 months have had at least 8 corruptions! However, I started under MacOS 9 and to be honest I haven't seen many since I switched to Mac OS X, In fact just 2 I think. Hmm, Dave, I wonder what you do to

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-28 Thread Dan Shafer
That could be said about every development tool and language I've ever used! On Nov 28, 2005, at 5:39 AM, David Burgun wrote: When it's good it's very good, But When it's bad it's - WICKED!!! ~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Burgun wrote: Second that... I've been using Metacard and RunRev now for what...ten years? can't remember when I switched from Supercard... in that whole time think I had 4 corrupt stacks. All the work of which (script wise) was easily recovered by simply opening the broken stack in BBE

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-28 Thread David Burgun
Second that... I've been using Metacard and RunRev now for what...ten years? can't remember when I switched from Supercard... in that whole time think I had 4 corrupt stacks. All the work of which (script wise) was easily recovered by simply opening the broken stack in BBEdit and copying out m

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-27 Thread Sivakatirswami
Second that... I've been using Metacard and RunRev now for what...ten years? can't remember when I switched from Supercard... in that whole time think I had 4 corrupt stacks. All the work of which (script wise) was easily recovered by simply opening the broken stack in BBEdit and copying o

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-27 Thread Dennis Brown
I don't recall ever seeing an effect without a cause. Rest assured there is a cause, but unless it can be reproduced, it will only get fixed by accident! If there is a next time, save the crime scene. Might be about time now to get on with your life. Dennis On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:42 PM, [EMAIL

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-27 Thread Roger . E . Eller
> I agree Dan... > > I have never had any of these issues come up for me. > > Tom > > On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: > >> Roger >> >> Interestingly, I have *never* encountered most of the anomalies >> mentioned in this thread and I program in Rev exclusively on OS X. I am g

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeffrey Reynolds wrote: I think some of this is summed up by some stuff just does happen, whether its a bug, file corruption or a user goof or just doing things in such an order that a strange event happens Fortunately you can rule out file corruption for 99% of the cases where it's suspected

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I agree Dan... I have never had any of these issues come up for me. Tom On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Roger Interestingly, I have *never* encounhtered most of the anomalies mentioned in this thread and I program in Rev exclusively on OS X. Yeah, I'm a MacBigot and I

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Dan Shafer
Roger Interestingly, I have *never* encounhtered most of the anomalies mentioned in this thread and I program in Rev exclusively on OS X. Yeah, I'm a MacBigot and I may just be blissfully unaware of these issues. But I've written hundreds of small code snippets for books and articles

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Reynolds
hmm, well i havnt seen this flavor of oddness, but the few weird 'how did that happen???' things with groups have all happened on the Windows side for me and I do most of my development on the Mac side. Since this is usually after a lot of development time, its hard to say exactly what caused i

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Marian Petrides
On Nov 26, 2005, at 10:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The MacOS is a cool and wonderful thing, but there is a certain quirkiness that often is simply overlooked by its many FANaticS (RunRev Team included). ;-) I resemble that remark ;-))) M Just lightening things up a bit, lest anyone th

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-26 Thread Roger . E . Eller
On 11/24/2005 at 05:04 PM, Thomas McGrath III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This definitely sounds like a user error. If you have more than one > menu group it will create confusion. If the group "fgttryiolk" is in > the place menu then it was because you 'the user' created it first, > Rev certainly

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-24 Thread David Burgun
David, This definitely sounds like a user error. If you have more than one menu group it will create confusion. If the group "fgttryiolk" is in the place menu then it was because you 'the user' created it first, Rev certainly did not create it or put it in your stack. Rev gets blamed for thin

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
David, This definitely sounds like a user error. If you have more than one menu group it will create confusion. If the group "fgttryiolk" is in the place menu then it was because you 'the user' created it first, Rev certainly did not create it or put it in your stack. Rev gets blamed for

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-24 Thread David Burgun
David - Your thread was off to a productive start, and then you derailed it with a random rant that benefits neither the good people on this list or yourself. We all need to write a good ranting email now and then; the trick is to remove the "to" address so you can't send it. ;) lol my out

Re: This is what REALLY SUCKS about whingeing

2005-11-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
David - Your thread was off to a productive start, and then you derailed it with a random rant that benefits neither the good people on this list or yourself. We all need to write a good ranting email now and then; the trick is to remove the "to" address so you can't send it. ;) Back to th