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Article #5994D v3.0 is Buggy
From: Robert Wahbe
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:59
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:59
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I bought 4D v3.0 about 3-4 weeks ago and have been developing a fairly large application with it. Had I to do it over again, I doubt I would get 4D. I chose 4D because it is a well reviewed product and provided most of the user-interface hooks needed to build a user-friendly program. It requires substantially less user-interface programming than FoxPro. However, in these last weeks I have reported probably 10 reproducible bugs to 4D technical support. In addition, I have had many, many, system crashes that I cannot reproduce. Other bugs are easy to reporduce on my databases but 4D technical support can't seem to do it. An example is that on some layouts my rulers are incorrect. If you take two screens and line them up they disagree about where the 4 inch,5 inch, etc mark is. Today was probably the last straw. I spent an hour or so trying to figure out why, in certain contexts, the incorrect record was getting deleted. Well, it seems like a bug in "DELETE RECORD". I print out the current record, using "Record number", all along the way, including right before the call to "DELETE RECORD". Everything is fine until I look at what record has been deleted; not the current record! Anybody else have similar experiences with 4D? -Robert
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU!rwahbe From: rwahbe@madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Wahbe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases Subject: 4D v3.0 is Buggy Date: 10 Jan 1993 00:59:45 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley, University of California Berkeley Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1inse1$no1@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: madrone.cs.berkeley.edu