Hello, I'm new to Revolution (Rev 2.5.1: Mac OSX 10.3.8). After a few associates mentioned Rev I thought I'd spend a week or so using the software, looking to migrate a few of our projects and team to Rev.
THE SCRIPT EDITOR IS A JOKE AND HAS SERIOUS ISSUES!! How can you expect any programmer to take your product seriously when the <b>sacred</b> script editor has SO MANY BUGS!! I became wary of it when small niggly things went wrong, then I LOST a whole bunch of code! Here's just the top 10 issues I found, most on the 2nd day: ---------------------------- 01 Going to single handler view, closing the script then opening again, then back to multi-handler view lost ALL MY STACK SCRIPT. EMPTY. THEN OTHER SCRIPTS IN THE STACK APPEARED TO BE EMPTY TOO! ALL EMPTY!? 02 Going to 'single handler' view doesn't parse the last handler, handler name shows but content appears empty. 03 Syntax coloring doesn't work properly (not everything is parsed correctly) and ends up looking like a handful of colored balloons... I needed to customize colors to make any sense of this. 04 On some occasions (when a modal dialog is open, an error occurs?) dialog after dialog repeatedly appears warning that 'can't edit while executing'. Seemed to appear three times? 05 Pre-emptive typing seems to only parse some of the keyword tokens? I can't work out what is parsed and what is not: functions, constants...? For example 'openstack' is parsed, 'itemDel' isn't? (Actually it did parse once, then it didn't the second time?) Don't know. 06 On another occasion all my script formatting (bold etc) was lost. Something happened, I opened and all my careful formatting was GONE. 07 Windows all over the place. I found I was constantly opening up the variable watcher, shuffling windows around (I'm on a 22 inch monitor), resizing, closing opening trying to see what is going on. Surely during development these could be organized properly, perhaps with variable watcher attached to the side or bottom of the script window with and expander triangle? I found I had to constantly expand the width of this to see things properly. 08 Lots of incorrect errors. I got 'Can't find Handler' when in fact it was an error in the script of the stack handler!! What sort of message is that!? Wasted time trying to work out why the message wasn’t being passed down the message path. 09 I found sending more than one parameter in a function call from the message box only accepted the first parameter. Fine if sent from a button but no good if sent from message box. 2nd, 3rd etc parameters are ignored. 10 Escape doesn't close the window, it puts some weird symbol in the script window. The 'double-enter' to accept and save a script is kinda weird, why can't you stick to a more conforming 'save and close' system? ---------------------------- After enjoying your software my confidence rating dropped to ZERO. Get it together, these glaring issues make your product look like a beta or late alpha. I don't mind issues in other areas but the SCRIPT EDITOR IS SACRED! Doesn't anyone else notice these things? How long has Rev been around? How can I write code if I can't SAFELY edit without worrying about code loss? I know some will brand me as a 'disgruntled programmer', however I'm just so used to a clean SAFE scripting environment that Rev made me feel VERY UNSURE of the environment. I’d love to switch our team over – an excellent and extensive set of script functions and commands -- however I don’t trust Rev now. Perhaps there is there a way I can edit in BBedit and then save back to Rev??? At least I’d know that the script is safe, even if my code has bugs. On the up side: once out of the nightmare script editor/ debugger, code and samples all seemed to execute well. Excellent speed. I see that you keep adding and adding more to Rev, why not SUBTRACT things that don’t work and get the others working properly. For example, tables also lost data, I basically gave up on the Table Object and cRevTable etc. Good luck, I’ll keep looking out for script editor fixes and improvements. In the meantime, if any serious programmers can tell me how to use BBedit with Rev then I’d much appreciate it. Seems the IDE is a very leaky tank but the engine is pretty stable. regards, Peter Armstrong -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution