Re: Power Object problems

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.

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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