Not just another BUG - a new series of...

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Thanks Richard,

>I think it's less a bug than a design priority.  They don't seem to use
>explicitVars much so they're just not in the habit of scripting for it.
>
>Scott Raney is an unusually disciplined soul, so I don't know if he uses 
it
>himself or not but it seems everything in the MC IDE is compliant with 
it.

At first I thought it was a horrible feature...

Then I learned that the explicit variables is extremely useful to find 
mispelled variables
for example. It saves lots of time to find them... For a final check for 
your scripts, it's a
great time saver. Just put your cursor over a button and hop, you got the 
potential
bugs showing up... (Dont try it in RR)...

>I believe this has been bugged, and RunRev intends to devote the 
resources
>to retrofit.  But given how rarely explicitVars is used it hasn't been a
>high priority.

I can understand but it's not such a rare function for some of us who 
demand
zero-defect quality in our stacks and a way to make that easier... 
IMOHO...

>> To top it all off, the tools palette never opens at startup...
>
>They do for me.  Is that a preference that got turned off?

Actually, I did check, I checked the only feature in the preferences that 
keeps the 
toolbar opened when in scripts - since the menubar keeps disapearing 
behind other
windows (which is extremely annoying)... 

>> Dare I say cheezy? Reality check: Is it just me?
>
>I wouldn't call it cheezy.  It seems more a question of how you like your
>pizza: if you like extra cheese the Rev IDE has a lot of stuff.  But if 
you
>like just meat on your pie you may feel the extra stuff gets in the way.
>
>Since you seem to be a meat-only guy like me, I suppose the question is: 
Why
>not just use the MC IDE?

OK, I wont say cheesy. Let's say undercooked... Send the pizza back to the 
chef ;)

I use MC at work for production because it is FLAWLESS in this respect.
I bought the RR license for my personal research - and to my surprise it's 
definitely 
NOT ready for enterprise production... IMOPO. 

Im not saying it wont work but it's way too unpredictable to commit some 
of the 
administration tools I run in our banking environment - MC is not perfect 
but it's dependable... 

The way I see it, is that if there are bugs as big as these in the GUI, 
how can you be sure 
of the engine below? (knowing that the engine might still be MC's)... 

Developing something stupid as a text browser has taken me more than 2 
weeks 
which I find unbearable... Developping an enterprise migration tool with 
RR would be
impossible and really dangerous... It's a snap in MC... I find that's very 
explicit...

Quality control in a development environment is of paramount importance 
for 
quality development and releases... 

I guess this could be an endless subject... 

Xavier


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