Error in Statusbar (Bug Report)

[Mark Bader]

Paul, I Couldn't find any referance to this in the forum already so I hope this is new to you.

Via the statusbar editor I created a statusbar with 3 panels. The two most right ones I selected Date and Time.  When you set the alignment to center you get a compile as follows:

Error Number = 477
Error Desc: Syntax error
                 FF_zTempString = $Tab FF_GetTime("hh:mm tt")

Control = General
Message = Other_Code

[TechSupport]

Thanks Mark,

I will look into this and fix it up for the next update.

[TechSupport]

This is now fixed. Fix will be in the 1.04 update.

[Roger Garstang]

I'm still experiencing a couple problems with the statusbar even after the update.  Most of my statusbars had been simple text before Firefly, so I decided to try out some panels...I added Caps and Num panels first and it let me select autosize, but didn't show anything when compiled.  I then went back and noticed it now didn't allow autosize on them or centered text which I'm guessing is correct unless that is a glitch.  I then added another text value and when I went back in to add a 4th panel I noticed some extra text added to the front on my last panel that was non alphanumeric since it appeared as black blocks.  I deleted it but everytime I'd go in there was at least one, so I exited and went to the xml and found a couple tab characters inserted...deleted them and it fixed the problem.

None of my tool tips are showing either, and Caps/Num isn't updated until a key is pressed...is there any way to do a manual update like on creation, etc?

[TechSupport]

Hi Roger,

I'll check into the statusbars later today to see what is going on. I'll post again to clarify. I think that saving the tab characters to the XML file is the problem. I need to call a function that "cleans" the Tabs first before they are stored. I'll get back to you on this.

Tooltips: Just for clarification. Tooltips in statusbars are a little different than normal tooltips. A tooltip will only display in a statusbar if the panel is not wide enough to display the entire text. Hey, that's the way Microsoft designed it.

[TechSupport]

Hi Mark,

I did a lot of work on the Statusbar Editor and code generation. You were dead on about the problems. I have fixed them and these fixes will be in the 1.05 update scheduled for upload tonight.

[Mark Bader]

Does this mean I get a free or discounted copy?

[TechSupport]

hmmmmmmmm..... ahhhhhhhhh..... nope.  But thanks for pointing out the problems.

[Roger Garstang]

Just FYI...I made a panel too small to display text and the tooltip still doesn't show.