Thanks for the list! There are a few here that we can fix. Others have workarounds, as you noted.
If anyone has questions about these, please send an email to support. We'll be happy to help! >Hi to all NSB CE developers, > >We have successfully completed a fairly big project using NSB CE and I >would like to share our experience with the community so that NSB CE can >be imroved further and some other developers can avoid some of the pitfalls. > >Generally NSB CE works surprisingly well and is very reliable, most of >the issues below have easy workarounds. > >The following issues are with NSB CE 7.0, some of them may have been >fixed in NSB CE 8.0, I did not re-test under 8.0. They are in no >particular order : > >- The NSB PictureBox cannot have a border > >- Cannot easily set zorder of controls on forms (i.e which controls >overlap each other), workaround is to export project as TXT and then re- >arrange the order the controls are created in the generated code > >- When disabling/enabling a button using the enabled property the screen >does not refresh to show the change. Workaround is to set the button >visible property to false, then to true again > >- Inputbox gives 'out of memory' errors on all devices I tested. >Workaround is to use the DialogX inputbox > >- The grid control has no left, right, width, height property -> >workaround : use grid.move method > >- The frame object has a border and there is no way to get rid of it >(property borderstyle does not work). > >- BUG : When creating a combobox with style 2 in ide, result is combobox >with style 0. The ide does not correctly set the combobox style 2 in the >generated code. Workaround is to set it in code. > >- Creating forms taller than the screen of the PDA works, but the ide >resets form height when reloading project > >- The locked property does not work for combobox > >- Enabled property works for combobox but does not gray the text > >- Picturebox does not have a visible property > >- Date control has no backcolor property > >- Control.name property does not work > >- Dapepicker.borderstyle does not work > >- Textbox keypress event fires but does not use the modified keyacii >value if it is changed within the event function (as in evb) > >- NSB scrollbar does not go up to the value defined in Max property, the >maximum is MaxValue - LargeChange > >- NSB does not have a vbNullPtr constant as eVB, so if a DLL function >requires a Null Pointer it does not work. Only workaround is to write a >wrapper DLL. > >- Control height, width, top, left are in Pixels, not Twips as in eVB. >Workaround is to devide twips by 15 to get pixels > >- Picturebox DrawText font size is different on different devices. This >bug was recently already fixed by NSB. Thanks a lot to George Henne for this. > >Greetings, > Jingjok > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nsb-ce" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nsb-ce?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
