Xavier,

I really don't want to get into a love/hate war over Rev, but you're baiting pretty badly with your last couple of posts.

Calling htmlText and rtfText "useless" and "unsupported", running off bugs and boldly stating that you don't have time to put them in Bugzilla... these sorts of things don't tend to get you heard by the people at Rev that could actually help you.

If your project isn't worth making Bugzilla reports for (and I have no idea how it would 3 hours to report your list), then why would it be worth it to Rev to spend their time digging them out of this list, tracking them down, and fixing them to support you?

You first started off by posting a htmlText/ rtfText snippet which was simply incorrect (which is fine, but when you are flaming Rev over bugs...):

set the RTFText of fld "text" to the HTMLText of fld "html"

Which wasn't working, because you were setting the RTFText property to HTML source. What you probably wanted was:

set the RTFText of fld "text" to the RTFText of fld "html"

Now for your bugs...


On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 01:32 AM, MisterX wrote:


- debugging - the script editor adds a few dozen lines to the end of my
script - you need to add a debug breakpoint, go in debug mode, abort, edit a
change with a non-error that is reported as an error and voila...

Blank lines? If so, are they actually in the script property of your object, or are they just stuck in the script editor?
Does it cause any harm?


What do you mean by a "non-error that is reported as an error"?

- debug breakpoint bar doesn't scroll as the script field - you end up
debugging not where you clicked! (This is the lack of synch scrolling via
mouse scroll in the breakpoint field which I've mentioned on previous
occasions.)

So the bug is that breakpoints don't scroll with the mouse under certain mouse conditions?
I couldn't reproduce this, do you need a mouse scroll wheel or something special? Where do I have to click / drag?



- Zooming a window with the zoom box doesn't respect the geometry manager
($)@%([EMAIL PROTECTED])(@%*@)(*I have to resize all the fields, groups AGAIN - What the
F***?) - This made my day already - one more day to release a stupid Farging
stack!!!

From what I can see here, geometry just doesn't work with groups. Turn off the group geometry and work with the inner objects individually, and the group resizes nicely with them to fit.


- Zooming a window with the zoom button doesn't zoom it all the way to the
window rect (props max height and width = 2^16...)

I'm not sure of the HIG here, but it looks to me like it zooms back and forth between the last two sizes that the stack has been set to....?


- you can't resize a zoomed stack thereafter without using the zoom box --
note the window is NOT full-screen-size (props)

I don't see this. I can still drag out a new size or use the zoom box.


- Geometry manager doesn't seem to respect the scaling offsets - I assume it
uses a percentage and not the border offsets - unreliable if you offset just
one or two pixels off another object.

It's working fine for me with several objects 1 or 2 pixels apart, stretching to 1000 pixels and back to 200 or so.
Can you give a reproducible example? What geometry settings did you give to your objects?


- Group a number of objects. Show a field that's supposed to be above them,
select the field, try to send it above the group with the appropriate button
in the "Size and position" props and it doesn't work. You have to type a
high number in the position to make it work

Confirmed. I tested and this only happens if the top-most object is in a group. If you watch carefully, it initially sets the layer to the appropriate value, and then flashes back to a smaller number. So whatever is limiting the maximum value somewhere in that script seems to have a bug. It does work to hit the "Move forward" button a few times, although I admit that would be tiresome with a lot of controls. For now a workaround would be to keep a non-grouped control on top, or type as you have been.


- Making an object the same size as another via the props "Align objects"
and assuming that object as a geometry scale link to the window will make
the geometry of that object no work! Objects are in a group... You have to
resize the object manually for the geo mgr to work ok. The more damned you
are if you groupped them...

Confirmed. It looks to me like Rev normally catches the object move and updates the geometry. When the align objects button is used, it's not updating the geometry. Try this: use the align button, and then manually nudge the moved object(s) one over and one back. Now things work.


Bet they could fix it in two minutes- it just needs to fire off whatever message the geometry normally catches when you move an object. I'd report it.

You could probably fire a moveControl message to Rev and it would work properly.

- a field in a grp, if you resize the object gets clipped, but if you move
it it doesn't - just more work either way...

I see this. One workaround is to ungroup and re-group. Not great, I admit.


- Close a stack with a script window left open - you get a dialog with
"close" or "Close and copy" the script window. Nothing is in the clipboard
if you choose close and copy

OK.


This the most stupid stack and the one that's given me the most trouble DUE
TO BUGS or non working features.

Then I presume the stack isn't that important too you. This isn't very compelling if I were working at Rev, to fix things that have only affected "the most stupid stack". But I don't think you really mean that.


No, I wont spend 3 hours entering this in bugzilla who will surely not
record my bugs again.

Then I hope you won't complain when RunRev doesn't fix them.


I never had this many bugs in MC or HC or any other IDE in 20 years
development experience...

Then you're either lucky or haven't used many IDEs with comparable number of features. But it doesn't matter. If all of the other IDEs are much better, feel free... you can easily still use the MetaCard IDE but you won't have to worry about having any geometry manager at all, or align objects.


I dont think it's just me...

That sees some bugs? No, not just you. But your approach leaves me little surprise that your previous reports weren't top priorities.


- Brian

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