Power Object problems

enduser_at_enduser.com (EndUser) wrote:

I totally agree...

Power Objects promises to be a very good tool, and those of us who endure the early days will much better placed in the market place in the future.

>this is good research, we have found a number of probs too.
>but we look at the version "1" and realize this is initial.
>surely you realize that the first users of anything must endure
>the bugs. to believe otherwise, is unwise, and unrealistic.
>overall, OPO v1, and what it promises is pretty neat.
>
>--
>In article <d.toff-2611951328230001_at_pcttym17.sis.interbusiness.it>,
>d.toff_at_sremo.sis.interbusiness.it (Daniele) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just installed Oracle Power Object for Macintosh. I have
>> encountered the following problems (bugs ?) :
>> 1) you can¹t tab out of a text field if multiline property is set to true
>> 2) WinPositionX, WinPositionY property are ignored when you open a form
>> (with WindowInitPos set to WinPositionX/Y). Actually they have an offset
>> of 70,100 which means if you want a window at 0,0 you find it at 70,100 at
>> runtime.
>> 3) the horizontal scroll in the form designer or the property window is a mess
>> 4) in the declaration section of the application I declared the following
>> constant :
>> CONST shiftKey = &H38
>>
>> in the Click() method of a pushbutton I have the following code :
>> CONST anotherShiftKey = &H38
>>
>> field1.value = shiftKey
>> field2.value = anotherShiftKey
>> field3.value = &H38
>>
>> the result is :
>> field1 = 16 Œwrong !
>> field2 = 121 Πabsolutely wrong !
>> field3 = 56 Πright one (it would be a major problem if this was
>> wrong too !)
>>
>> this I found is related to the amount of code in the declarations section,
>> more than 30-40 lines would do the trick, and they call it POWER Object
>> :-(
>>
>> Can someone confirm these problems ? They are so evident and easy to fix
>> that I cannot believe they slipped through a final version. Also where can
>> I find upgrades ? This is a $2000 joke and I don¹t like it.
>>
>> Thank you all,
>>
>> Daniele Toffetti
>> d.toff_at_sremo.sis.interbusiness.it

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Gordon E. Hooker MACS PCP
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_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ It is far far better to remain silent and appear a fool then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

Anon. Received on Sun Dec 03 1995 - 00:00:00 CET