revEnterprise dp-5 / revMedia beta / revWeb beta

[Richmond Mathewson]

Richard Miller wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Yes, this was what I originally expected. But it's not working as of 
> yet during runtime... only in the development environment. Will this 
> be implemented shortly (prior to launch) so that it works the same 
> during runtime? What if the two stacks are sized differently? What 
> will happen then?
>
> It would be nice to have answers to these now so that developers like 
> myself can make adjustments based on fairly large items like this.
Quite!
>
> I've discovered some other significant (for me) change to the runtime 
> environment in the past few days. A traditional cascading menu (built 
> with the menu builder).... which worked fine yesterday during 
> runtime... no longer works today. The menu (which I dragged to the 
> center of the stack so it functions as a button with cascading 
> selections), depresses OK. The list of hierarchical selections show up 
> OK. But any attempt to actually make a selection fails.
>
> Obviously, they are making substantial changes to the runtime 
> environment on a daily basis. This makes development very difficult.  
> I can work around much of this and focus on other items, but it's the 
> "not knowing what we'll end up with by 11/11" 
sleepless nights
> that makes all of this stressful, 
acidosis
> if not impossible.
road rage
> I actually don't think they know either. It seems to be very much a 
> day-by-day situation. 
I am thinking about a 2 weeks holiday from programming.
> On the other hand, I fully appreciate the enormity of the challenge 
> they face.
So do I, but I don't particularly like coming across 'surprises' - I 
honestly think
their PR needs a spot of overhauling.
>
> Richard
>