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: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 00:03:24 +0100
on 21.02.2001 1:46 Uhr, Mike Miller at email@hidden wrote:
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Additionally, cris <email@hidden> replied:
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> 7 Facespan can't handle scripts larger than 32 KB. Very bad, especially
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> for a tool which is meant to build applications.
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I have only once hit the 32KB limit when writing a FaceSpan application, and I
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consider that app to be very poorly designed.
Maybe it was. I work currently on two shareware projects, both are exceeding
32K, one is about 40, the other about 60. I do a lot error- and "case"
handling.
When i was a pure AS user i didn't like AS scripts much. Why? Most of them
even did not start correctly, giving error messages. If they start, they
where not made universal enough to run without errors - my mind said "AS =
bad".
I'm going to change that, but it needs code. More than 32K.
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> 8 You can't use 'property parent' with facespan to workaround the 32 KB
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> limit. Must use libraries as childs which leads to more problems (scope).
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::shrug:: Never had a need for parent/child script objects. Globally
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accessable libraries have sufficed for my code reuse needs.
A global lib is still a child which must be explicity targeted.
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> 9 Lasso selecting and moving items in a tab corrupts the items visibility
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> in the tab's.
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I believe FS resets the links whenever you move a window item while it's on a
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tab panel; if so, it's probably intended as a feature
It a confirmed bug.
I agree that it makes probably not much sense to put more work into the
classic version. DTI is surely very very small, so they have to focus on
something. Let's hope on the X version.
Greetings
cris :-)
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