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Started by Robert Wahbe
Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:59
4D v3.0 is Buggy
Author: 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
Re: 4D v3.0 is Buggy
Author: Jeff
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:17
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:17
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In article <1inse1$no1@agate.berkeley.edu> rwahbe@madrone.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Wahbe) writes: >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 I have just purchased 3.01 (I think I will send it back and buy a used copy of 2.2.3). I have noticed no bugs in it, but I am a beginner at this, and I don't use the multi-user and server features, so it seems that 3.01 is over kill for my needs and 2.2.3 will do just fine. Anyway, just a note to let you know that 3.01 looks fairly stable to me... Jeff-
Re: 4D v3.0 is Buggy
Author: the digital ArtLibrarian (curren...
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57
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I've been developing several applications in 4D 2.2.3, and upgraded to 3.0.1. I've not seen any serious bugs while doing further development; however in trying to run part of the Airlines/flights demo (with the map of the world), I can reproduce a crash every time on my Mac IIci. As with all major upgrades to an even number, I expect there to be bugs. I've not seen the kind of bugs which would make me go back to the previous version. erik [No opinions expressed are anyone's but my own, or my Mac's]
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