Hi Francis MS>> I worries me that it seems that TheBat came to a stage where it is MS>> difficult to find bugs and hard to fix them. Old and very old bugs are MS>> still present and any new version which claims to fix some bugs has new MS>> ones - things which worked before are suddenly broken...
FS> 't might become difficult to browse through so many code lines... FS> In order to repair one bug introduced in 3.5.32, Ritlab came today with FS> 3.5.33... with a 500 Kb bigger exe-file!!! thebat.exe is now weighting FS> almost 12 Mb. Compare with a three month old version... Not wishing to put words into any RL (or any other) keyboards here. This is just a general observation. Many new features are being added at the moment. Often at this stage in a program's development cycle things can get a little complicated. But those growing pains tend to be followed by good consolidation and a stronger, sleeker program at the end of the process. It's a little like a bird emerging from its egg for the first time. When it was an egg, all it had to concern itself with was keeping its yoke together and whether the speckles on its shell were lookin' good today. But then, as it grows, it gets a whole set of new stuff it needs to worry about: "What should I do with these enormous feet things?"; "Won't all this beak business just get in the way?"; "What if I'm alergic to feathers?". The list, believe me, is endless! And in the end, of course, the beak does get in the way and the cool-lookin' shell gets broken and the feathers don't even work properly at first. And then the bird trips over those enormous feet things and quite possibly falls right out of its comfort zone - I mean nest. Now, what kinda smart design is that? Well, I guess that'd be the kinda smart design where those feet things grow and develop and become strong enough to power that swan across the largest lake it can find and where the feathers turn out to be really snug in winter, cool in summer and even more cool when you get bored with swimming and fancy a spot of flying - not to mention, of course, prettier than a very pretty thing. And the beak? Well, I think the beak speaks for itself. :) -- Groetjes Natasha The Bat! 3.5.33 on Windows XP Professional 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.33 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
