Comments on rbjottings: Telling the truth

@Anonymous - I've re=established most of the links...

2008-12-26T18:43:00.000Z

@Anonymous - I've re=established most of the links. Will have a go at adding the rest soon.

@Mr. Steve Garman,Please re-establish the links to...

2008-07-13T17:11:00.000+01:00

@Mr. Steve Garman,

Please re-establish the links to some of your sample codes, as those links are now broken. E.g.

http://rb.sgarman.net/adLBcolour.rbp
http://rb.sgarman.net/dropBMP.rbp

Would love to try them out. Thank you much.

You said this about your browser program: "No, it...

2008-07-03T14:58:00.000+01:00

You said this about your browser program: "No, it appears it doesn't work in rb2008r2. It looks like HTMLViewer no longer has an action event. You can make it work easily enough though. HTMLViewer1 has an Action event with a comment in it. Go in and remove the whole comment from the event. When the event is completely empty, the Action event should disappear. Hopefully the demo will then compile."

It does, and the program works fine after that. Thanks for sharing the code!

I haven't looked at the actual source code yet, bu...

2008-06-12T22:27:00.000+01:00

I haven't looked at the actual source code yet, but when I try to run dragIn.rbp, the program gives me an error (something about button1 not existing).

I _love_ resizeable.rbp I don't have an immediate idea of a practical use for it, but it's impressive enough that it deserves to exist simply as a programming "magic trick" ("how did he do that?"), deserving to exist elegantly on that basis alone.

I've run chkbox.rbp, but I haven't figured out yet what it does. (I do like, however, diginum.rbp and dragBMP, which work fine -- the only new one I've had trouble with thus far ia dragIn.rbp.)

Barry Traver

@Barry,No it appears it doesn't work in rb2008r2. ...

2008-06-12T19:05:00.000+01:00

@Barry,
No it appears it doesn't work in rb2008r2. It looks like HTMLViewer no longer has an action event.
You can make it work easily enough though.
HTMLViewer1 has an Action event with a comment in it. Go in and remove the whole comment from the event. When the event is completely empty, the Action event should disappear.
Hopefully the demo will then compile.

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I decided to ...

2008-06-12T08:33:00.000+01:00

I wasn't sure where to post this, so I decided to post it here and let you decide where it should be put.

I downloaded and tried out your miniBrowser.rbp in your "Stuff I should look at to see if it still works."

When I try to run the program with RB2008r2, I get this error message:

"HTMLViewer1 on Window1 implements the event "Action," but its superclass HTMLViewer has already implemented the event."

Then RB (sometimes) crashes.

The same thing happens when I try to run the the .xml file.

Does your browser "still work"? If (as I presume) it does, what am I doing wrong?

Warm regards,

Barry Traver

For what its worth....I spotted the mistake. I was...

2008-05-14T19:22:00.000+01:00

For what its worth....

I spotted the mistake. I wasn't bothered by it. I don't feel it is a litigious lie or an underhand act. It wasn't deceptive either.

I have read the reasons for changing the model and accept it was necessary. It is not "going down the MS route".

I have good faith in the RB engineers and the progress being made.

@Steve -- I don't discount the fact that the mista...

2008-05-08T20:43:00.000+01:00

@Steve -- I don't discount the fact that the mistake sucks. I just wanted to point out that it's an honest mistake to miss a paragraph out of a few thousand web pages, even when it's an important paragraph.

Yes, the final decision was made at a high level. This wasn't just a lark decision. It was an important one that had to be made.

@anonymous: In a simple "Hello World" app, no DLLs...

2008-05-08T20:05:00.000+01:00

@anonymous: In a simple "Hello World" app, no DLLs are required but if you use (internal or external) plugins, there will be one DLL per plugin. The RB website has now been corrected to describe this behaviour.

@Aaron: I really do know that it's simple human error. The problem is that nobody has felt it important enough in the last 90+ days to find that statement so that it doesn't look like RS are trying to rip off their customers.

Somebody very senior (or a P.A. to somebody very senior) should be doing this sort of thing.

Would I be right in thinking that the final decision to allow the abandonment of the single .exe was made at a very high level?

Thanks for pointing the page out to us, it should ...

2008-05-08T19:50:00.000+01:00

Thanks for pointing the page out to us, it should be updated now. Our website has thousands of pages (in several languages), and we miss stuff on occasion, even the big stuff unfortunately. Sorry for the confusion -- we're not trying to be sneaky or underhanded.. just simple human error.

What external DLLs are required for the deployment...

2008-05-08T17:10:00.000+01:00

What external DLLs are required for the deployment of an RB app?