Re: Facespan 3.5.1: Is it good, or bad, for you?
Re: Facespan 3.5.1: Is it good, or bad, for you?
- Subject: Re: Facespan 3.5.1: Is it good, or bad, for you?
- From: cris <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:32:03 +0100
on 18.02.2001 4:32 Uhr, Douglas Wagner at email@hidden wrote:
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Hello:
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I used Facespan 2.0 briefly some time ago and was disappointed. Now
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I've started using Facespan 3.5 and almost at once, I've started
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running into similar problems. During, what I consider fairly routine
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work, I run into all sorts of odd behaviour.
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1 Some ICN# resources will display in a list box other,
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apparently identical items will not.
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2 Similar problems with bevel buttons.
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3 Tab panels behave oddly, if the tabs are hidden by removing
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the labels. 'Scroll' works without tabs, but an object on layer 5,
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for example, can show up on layers 1 and 5.
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4 Changing window 'forms' seems unreliable in edit mode.
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5 I find the application crashes after a while, particularly if
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one makes many changes to the properties of objects.
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6 I understand there are no plans to fix outstanding bugs as
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the company priority is now the OSX port.
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7 Facespan can't handle scripts larger than 32 KB. Very bad, especially
for a tool which is meant to build applications.
8 You can't use 'property parent' with facespan to workaround the 32 KB
limit. Must use libraries as childs which leads to more problems (scope).
9 Lasso selecting and moving items in a tab corrupts the items visibility
in the tab's.
10 The script editor is unbelivable poor, even no drag & drop.
I hope the OS X version will be much better. And maybe it is possible at
some day to use Apples Interface Builder with AppleScript.
There is currently no alternative (except Dialog Director) to Facespan,
which is generally bad in my opinion.
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