Re: Delphi 2.0 vs. Powerbuilder 5.0

Michael,

I can agree that a number of the GPF's in PB can be attributed to less than optimal use of the tool. However, I've seen so many crashes when doing gui design, which I can not attribute to errors on my part in the usage of PB or lack of technique. Many times, I just generate the ascii export of the gui object and edit that file to make gui changes. This is in the design of the gui view for a datawindow. So there is only gui content involved, no windows api or other code involved. When problems start, I reboot Windows, and open only PB and the datawindow painter to keep things as simple as possible.

Any helpful suggestions on this would be appreciated. In general, I found only a few problems that occured from programming PB, other operator error. And the bugs I do run into are a pain more than a show-stopper, since the ascii export always works. Besides I find it more time efficient to do some of the fine-tuning of the gui screens through ascii editor with a mass search and replace routine.

"Michael D. Kersey" <mdkersey_at_hal-pc.org> wrote:

>To get to the point, I'm tired of hearing people who are not familiar with PB complain
>about "multiple GPF's with PowerBuilder". This is an old fisherman's/fishwive's rumour
>that began years ago. If a PB programmer takes care to regenerate objects at the
>appropriate time, carefully implements any Window API calls, regularly checks his system
>for viruses and doesn't disable the compiler warning in his/her new software
>development, then GPF's are nonexistent in the PB environment. It should be the same in
>almost any non-beta development environment, provided the programmer knows what (s)he is
>doing and doesn't try to simply "wing it".
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>Michael D. Kersey
Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST