About bugs (was This is what REALLY SUCKS about RunRev! - was Menubar Help)

[David Burgun]

Hi Eric,

I always do try to reproduce the problem etc. In this case though it 
really is a bug, if not in the menu handling, then else where in 
RunRev.

There was a Group in the Place Groups Sub-Menu that was not listed in 
any stack/card in the apps browser. When selected it placed a BLOB in 
the stack window that could not be selected, however, when selected 
from the apps browser window, it could be deleted. Once this was done 
it worked.

There was no code that could cause this type of problem, just the 
scripts generated by Auto-Script, e.g. a menuPick and empty case 
statement, and besides that, the problem was that the menu did not 
get moved into the Application menu. No code was needed for this to 
occur.

All the Best
Dave


>Hi Dave,
>
>I have some experience in XTalks since 20 years...
>I have seen many people like you moaning about what they call *bugs*.
>In my experience today, I may ensure you that, 99 times out of one 
>hundred, I *know* that the reason is a bad code and , sometimes in a 
>place I get pain to find it :-).
>Before saying: that's a bug, please, try to reproduce it in a fresh new stack.
>If you can't reproduce it, it means that your stack has a coding problem.
>Then don't waste your time: search, track and solve :-)
>
>Best Regards from Paris,
>
>Eric Chatonet.
>
>PS. In your case, as others told you, your stack is the problem, not Rev.
>
>Le 24 nov. 05 à 21:27, David Burgun a écrit :
>
>>As for scaring people away, surely it's the bugs that scare people 
>>away, not me moaning about them! Or are you suggesting that it's 
>>better to keep quiet and that way fool them into thinking they are 
>>getting something they are not. Apart from ths dishonesty, I really 
>>don't think it will work, since if they do buy it and then hit the 
>>problems they will be far more upset and far more likey to just 
>>drop RunRev then if they knew there were these kind of stupid 
>>problems to start with.
>
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