What happend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Georgios Papageorgiou
Are you out there? Or are you busy promoting the Preview of PowerBuilder
7.0.
If you're having plans of letting "Customers suffer" you are about to
succed.
Double bug (1.5) = 1 (Yet another regression was fixed in 399 or so)
We are not allowed to make incremental builds any more.
SaveAsAscii saves ***NOTHING***
Reset Pagecount on group pages only works on total pages (now printing
4/1 )
and a *lot* more
It's seems that you are going the Microsoft way ( Beta beta beta always
beta, life is a beta)
Some of us really like(d) PowerBuilder cause it WAS stable (or at least we
knew the *bugs* around)
You are letting us down. We waited for half a year , FOR WHAT ?? Java and
Com generators.
At the moment our customers really doesn't care a ....
I hope someone from Sybase( I wish the name still would be Powersoft) is out
there please let us hear what's going on.
A very disappointed PB-developer.
Georgios,
g...@ramboll.dk
Leonid Rudi
I Join with You opinion Georgios !!!
I try send this letter to Technical Support of Sybese - NO ANSWER
Sybase - MUST DIE !!! ORACLE FORMS - RULES !!!
Georgios Papageorgiou wrote ....
Benjamin A. Tan
I sympathize with you 1000%! These quirky and disturbing bugs are a
TOTAL waste of time. As if you don't have enough to worry about - as in
doing your job, but you have to worry about stupid things in PB. What
the heck is going on in Sybase?
I worked on SaveAsASCII and SaveAs functions for many hours, only to be
very very disappointed. Just did not really work as advertised.
I've been using PB for 3+ years now. I like the power and concept of
DWs but these bugs are just killing me.
Downloaded 6.5 and right away had to do work arounds. I don't know how
the beta program works, but it sure ain't working for us. One of my
time wasters: Radio buttons in datawindow. For some reason, they're
not consistent with other dev programs out there. If you space out the
radio buttons as in 1 inch between each button, you still can click on
the white space in between. I don't want that feature. Just wish they
would implement things just like everybody else. So I ended up using
bitmap radio buttons (simulating radio buttons).
Suffering...
Benjamin
b_...@compuserve.com
Volker Reher
Could you please be more precise about this "double"-Problem.
I can't reproduce it.
I'm use a german Version of Windows and "double(1.5)" gives
"1,5" as it should.
Volker
Jiggy
I am still not sure what the problem is. Are you saying that in 6.5
Double("1.5") returns 1 ?
I ran that PBL you posted with 6.5 maintenance release and it returns
1.5 like it should.
Am I missing something here?
Jiggy
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Georgios Papageorgiou wrote:
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> Sorry, I forgot to tell that i used the PB 6.5 maintenance release
> (should have used 6.01 beta 1 though:) Try the code and let me know if
> it works. Here is the bug that was reported 1998-05-23.It was fixed in
> Build 399 but now... GeorgiosJust wish that Sybase is reading this
> newsgroup :! Volker Reher wrote in message
> <35D13CC9...@milestone.de>...>Hi Georgios!
Geert Neirinck
The problem occurs in version 6.5 (or 6.0.1.Beta) with a decimal separator
"," (comma) and a thousand separator "." (point) as used in all european
countries.
Jiggy wrote in message <35D1C32A...@kpmg.com>...
Volker Reher
Thanks for your example. It realy is an ugly bug! (It works in 5.0.4)
In addition, I think that the Masked Edit too doesn't know
how to handle a comma (,).
Volker
Simon Caldwell
Geert Neirinck wrote in message ...
> with a decimal separator "," (comma) and a thousand separator "." (point)
as used in all european
>countries.
>
Volker Reher
If you are still interested in the double/real bug:
The problem you reported has case number 171038
Volker
Leonid Rudi
<35DC321E...@milestone.de> ...
>Hi Georgios!
>
>If you are still interested in the double/real bug:
>The problem you reported has case number 171038
Leonid
Remove "zzz_" from email
>
>Volker
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Volker Reher
You can search http://info.sybase.com/
to find out what the status of this bug is and which priority it has.
Select "Powersoft Tools-Online version and search for
the change number.
It will probably take some weeks before you can find
this number. The largest number I could find here today (21.8.) was
169370.
Volker
Georgios Papageorgiou
Please notice that "we (developers)" are getting rather annoyed about those
bugs.
Maybe we sometimes forget to report some of those nasty bugs.
Thanks,
Georgios
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I got this very satisfying mail from Sybase:
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1. We are *NOT* able to make incremental builds (at least with PFC).
Answer: Some fixes were made to build 440 or so and should be in 6.5 final
on the web. We were able to build 5 applications containing extension
layers that customers sent us. These would not build in the betas or in
6.0.00. Your application might have a different construct that still
causes this to fail. Please try 6.5 first.
2. Reset Page count on group break in REPORTS does only reset the total
counter (Now printing page 4 of 1 )
Answer: We broke this at the last minute in build 444 while fixing another
page() bug. Unfortunately, we could not put this fix in 6.5 final. The
workaround is to place the report in a composite and the page numbering
will work. This solves other page numbering issues too strangely enough
esp with stacked reports on composites.
3. Double( "1,5") = 1 or Real( "1,5") = 1 while Dec("1,5") = 1,5. See the
pibble.
Answer: This is a bug.
FYI. We use U.S. notation internally. This is why you cannot use:
decimal d = 1,5
It's the same reason why you can't use salary = 1,5 in an expression
either.
When using a string conversion as you show here, we go to the control panel
and depending on the numeric settings, we might interpret this number
differently.
With U.S settings, 1,525 would be interpreted as 1525 (comma is thousands
separator)
With European settings, 1,525 should come out as 1,525 as expected.
You example shows that Real('1,525') and Double('1,525') convert to "1"
(WRONG) using European settings (I assume this is your bug) and that
Decimal('1,525') does not. This appears to be a 6.5 regression as it
works fine in 5.0.04 and 6.0.00 and I've entered bug 171038 for this one.
(you can search this on the web at info.sybase.com on the on-line technical
bulletin link updated weekly).
I am on the newsgroups every day and know most of the problems with PB.
The hard part is, of course, isolating these bugs. Customers that do this
and help us can expect that I'll at least be able to look at their bug
quickly. They really should be sending these bugs to the ECM system but
occasionally - I get something that I can work with directly and will enter
the bug myself but this is rare.
Stephen Dupre
Product Support Engineering
Sybase, Inc.
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Volker Reher wrote in message <35DC321E...@milestone.de>...
>Hi Georgios!
>
>If you are still interested in the double/real bug:
>The problem you reported has case number 171038
>
>Volker
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