Buggy

rbuser

I just wanted to let you guys know that while I like what you have done to
RB10 and the direction you are going, I'm really having a lot of buggy
things like access violations, fields moving around that shouldn't be and
now Delphi just crashed while trying to copy and paste text on a report.
The exact thing I did was cut a group of fields. add a region and attempt
to paste those fields into the region. However, the region wasn't big
enough so I hit ctrl Z thinking it would unpaste the items I just placed on
the form, but instead it resized the region I added 2 steps earlier. Then I
hit ctrl X to cut the fields off again thinking I could just repaste back
onto the report, and that was it. Access violations to the point Delphi
finally had to be shut down.

Is anyone else having these problems? I've spent a lot of time making sure
that I removed the old RB before adding the new stuff and everything appears
to be working as far as running old reports. All problems seem specifically
related to the developer environment...

Thanks,

glenn

rbuser

I've also noticed fields moving around.

Ken

nicocizik

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the information. We will look into these issues. Are these
problems only occurring at design time? Note that pasting a component into
a region can be very tricky as ReportBuilder tries to paste a component in
the same location that it was cut from inside a band. An easier way to go
about this is to simply drag and drop the components inside the region.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

nardmoseley

Thanks for the feedback. We are working hard to quickly fix reported bugs
and issue patches and maintenance releases.

The new designer has an excellent architecture in place. (There is no
comparison to the new architecture and the old one.) This makes it easy to
fix bugs and to add new features going forward.

When reporting a bug please specify the following:

1. RB version
2. Delphi version (very important now that we have BDS and the older Delphi
7, 6 IDE's)
3. Whether the bug happens at Delphi design-time or run-time. (If we can
recreate a bug using the run-time designer then it is a thousand times
easier for us to debug.)
4. Exact steps to reproduce

Note: Save your work often. If you encounter an AV, save your work and exit
Delphi completely. Otherwise you are likely to encounter many more AV's and
strange behavior. The first AV can corrupt the environment and thereafter
cause complete instability.

nardmoseley

The Undo support for Paste will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

The new designer contains a refactored version of the original copy/paste
related code. After some research, I installed RB 9.03 and confirmed that
neither the old nor the new report designer supports pasting into a region.
The paste is always performed at a fixed offset from the orginal component.
You can then drag the component into the Region.

rbuser

The bugs mentioned definitely exist as to others. Please read my post
in datapipelines for more detail. Your welcome to respond to my
questions in this post as well

nicocizik

Hello,

Thanks for the info. Please see Nard's earlier replies to the original bug
report thread.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com