Wrong compile time messges and other errors.

[Elias Montoya]

Hello Paul. I know you are working in fixing other things, probably far more important than this, but i figured i should let you know anyway.
Im having some issues with firefly.

• I am getting wrong compile time errors. I have been getting them for a while now (Probably you saw this: http://www.planetsquires.com/protect/forum/index.php?topic=3031.0 ), but i didnt paid much attention until now. It is displaying the error i show in the image attached. Strange thing, it is displaying that error in a file that i didnt open for like 2 weeks. Im sure i made a mistake somewhere else in the code, but it id not correctly showing me where or what error.


• I still many times need to set the window style property for the controls twice or it wont apply my property to the control. Sometimes it works fine though.


• The message box editor is not working correctly in Windows 7. In order to make it work, i have to viewcopy the code and then i can click "Insert in editor" and it will work, but if i just design the message box, (testing it works) and then pressing "Insert in editor", it will just beep and the message box will be lost. It inserts whatever was in the clipboard, but no message box code. I believe it might be something with clipboard privilleges.


• This morning i was working in firefly and everything responded, except the code editor. I could click menus, toolbars, even the Firefly workspace and the lower tabs worked fine, but not the code editor or the form tabs. Restarting it fixed the problem.


• This, i think is by design, but i get no warnings or anything; When the controls are locked, i can click then and move them with CTRL+ARROWS, and size them with SHIFT+Arrows. That is great! dont change that! , but when i click options like "Make all vertical sized the same", it doesnt do anything. The options are not grayed or anything. I suggest (wish) the Locking of controls would only lock them from being moved with the mouse (too much sensibility for movement), because sometime i only need to click them to make a property change and the control ends up moving.


• Wish... Te search feature is great! I love to have the ability to search in the whole project! I dont know if that is because i suggested it, but if it is, thank you very much!! . Now if i could suggest something... I would love to have the ability to click something in the code and that the "find next"  feature continued after (or before depending on the setting) my selection. Right now the find next feature continues in a linear way, and in order to search where i want, i need to close the find window, click where i want to start, and click find again.


• Suggestion... Make the TabControlChildAutoSize feature auto-size the form in the visual editor automatically. Not important, but that would be great.


• Suggestion... It would be nice to be able to edit the class styles for some controls. Some times i need to click a button repeatedly and i cant because i cant disable double clicks in the buttons.


• Not an issue... but an OUCH... When i select many controls and try to edit a property for them all, it works good, but some times it works so good, its bad.  Select a bunch of controls, click the Window Property, edit them. Nice, it works fine. But if you accidentally press down while the focus is in the property editor, it will be setting the same property for all the controls selected... even the text... And there is no undo feature. Ouch. I dont know how to approach that one... probably disabling UP and DOWN arrows in firefly properties while more than one control is selected?

You know i love firefly, i have been using it from almost the day you released it a lot of years ago. I hope i didnt say anything that remotely resembles something bad. Kudos!!

[Martin Foster]

• The message box editor is not working correctly in Windows 7. In order to make it work, i have to viewcopy the code and then i can click "Insert in editor" and it will work, but if i just design the message box, (testing it works) and then pressing "Insert in editor", it will just beep and the message box will be lost. It inserts whatever was in the clipboard, but no message box code. I believe it might be something with clipboard privilleges.

Just thought I'd report that I'm having the exact same problem on Windows 7.

Martin

[Rudolf Furstauer]

I have this problem (message box editor) too, but with XP-SP3.

Rudolf Fuerstauer

[Paul Squires]

Thanks guys. Looks like I needed to do a "Clipboard Reset" prior to the clipboard copy.
All fixed now.

[Martin Foster]

Thank you 

Martin

[Martin Foster]

Thanks guys. Looks like I needed to do a "Clipboard Reset" prior to the clipboard copy.
All fixed now.

Just thought I'd let you know that it's now working just fine in 3.60, thank you 

Martin