Stop table inspection crashes - Please vote for 3231

Walton Sumner wsumner at im.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 9 14:43:29 EST 2007


Hi folks, 

This weekend I was busily setting properties on a group within a group when
I accidentally selected "Table" on a field's property inspector. As usual
when a field has any content, Rev entered an infinite loop and had to be
killed, with loss of an hour's work.

At the time, I had Galaxy running, but was not using it for property
inspection, so I was not getting the handy automatic saves that Galaxy
provides. As I was editing a group within a group, I was not resurfacing to
save as frequently as usual. Alas. I know better than to trust the Rev IDE
like that, but I am always mystified that the property inspector is so
unstable. Galaxy seems not to crash when inspecting tab stops or other table
settings, so why should the Rev IDE crash on similar property inspections?
Seems likely to just be a transcript error (like the incorrect size of the
options field in all menu button property inspection palettes, and because
of that the hidden menulines property), which is all the more frustrating.

I am sure that I am still more productive with Rev than I would be with the
mainstream languages, but it is embarrassing to admit that I use an IDE that
still has these problems.

So today I checked the new bugzilla, and find that I am the only one who is
currently voting for bug 3231, although it was not my report, and there have
been several duplicate bug reports submitted since.

If you have had this disconcerting experience, or want to avoid it, or would
just like your favorite IDE to attain the basic stability that it needs to
gain market share, and stick around, please vote for bug 3231.

http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=3231

Thanks,

Walton Sumner




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