Last chance for FireFly 2.5 bug fixes...

[TechSupport]

I am putting the final touches on FireFly 2.5. If you have any problems/concerns then now is the time to voice them. I want to release the package as soon as possible.

[Roger Garstang]

Control Transparency.  Maybe not thinking about it so much as for bitmaps that are stretched, tiled, etc...but something that just works if we write to the background in %WM_ERASEBKGND, etc.  And only one of the bitmap methods worked when the window was resized anyway if I recall, so maybe just do away with the one not working...or at least the transparency option for the one not working or something so it doesn't break code.  We could always tile/stretch the bitmaps ourself, we just need the controls to work transparent when we draw.

[Mark Strickland]

I have had a few problems with cut and paste.  If I highlight a group of controls on one form to "clone" them to another, sometimes they paste with a vertical position that is off the bottom of the form.  I don't think I have seen the problem when I paste a single control.

During the paste process you briefly see the controls appear in the correct location then they disappear (off the bottom) at the completion of the paste after the last one in the group is put on the screen.

The first few times I could not find the control then I looked at the properties and saw the problem.

Not critical but maybe worth a look.  If you don't see the problem don't hold up the release.

As usual --- very customer responsive.  

[Marty Francom]

I would like to see a way to reset all the background and foreground colors of all controls on all forms in a project.   I have a project with a couple dozen forms and over 600 controls.  It's quite the challenge to reset the colors one control and one form at a time.   If there was a way to globally reset these properties, that would be great!

[Elias Montoya]

paul can you post a list of fixes before releasing the upgrade?

[TechSupport]

I would like to see a way to reset all the background and foreground colors of all controls on all forms in a project.   I have a project with a couple dozen forms and over 600 controls.  It's quite the challenge to reset the colors one control and one form at a time.   If there was a way to globally reset these properties, that would be great!

Hi Marty,

Yes, that sounds like a very good idea. I can't do it for this update but I will add it to the FireFly list. Hopefully I can do it in the future.

[TechSupport]

paul can you post a list of fixes before releasing the upgrade?

Sure. I'll post the list as soon as I can.

[Marty Francom]

If there is a Fire Fly limitation to the how large a project that FireFly can handle (see my posting "My Computer or Known Limitation),    Is there a way th break my project into several smaller FireFly progects and link the projects together at compile time to create one EXE?