We do most of our product testing on XP. I can offer that we do a lot of pretty funky things, including dynamically loading pulldowns/pop-ups and it works fine for us on XP/98/95/ME.
These thoughts may be of no help, but I'll pass them on for your consideration:
A difference I note is that we always say:
set the text of button "fred" to myText
rather than
put myText into button "fred"I don't know if this matters, since your stuff works on some platforms - but it may be worth a shot. We went to this approach because we had some problems with consistency in the early days. This seems to have fixed them.
The "?" in an object name scares me, especially since Rev is so adept with regular expressions. Again, it seems to handle it for you fine, but just looks like trouble.
For most of our printing, we check the platform and if its "Win32", we set the formatforprinting property to true before the print call, then back to false afterward. Note that for some of your stacks this actually may cause problems (read "unexpected results"), but generally gets the text to behave itself.
Finally, it may have something to do with the global. You could set a custom property on your app stack rather than use a global and it may work more effectively.
Hope this is of some value. If you want me to beat on it for you on an XP box (XP Home), drop me a line off list and I'll be glad to give it a look.
Ray
On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 03:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello folks,
Its a very long time since my last post. (Forgive me Father....?)
The reason is that I have discovered that writing software is
not the hardest bit...the real headache is installation and support.
OK, OK, so that is common knowledge, but it has come as a bit of a shock to me, I can tell you.
I have customers who have problems running under XP,
and I have just managed to replicate at least the main problem. The odd
thing is that I wouldn't have thought there were any OS
issues in what I am doing. The situation is this:
I have an encrypted 'users' stack that contains the name of
authorised users stored in a custom property 'cusers'. This
is stored in a folder within the same folder as the
standalone. When my standalone launches, a preopenstack
handler opens the users stack (invisible) and puts cusers
into gusers, a global.
set the loc of this stack to the screenloc set the dontUseQt to true go invisible stack "users/users.rev" put the cusers of field listem into gusers end preopenstack
In the openstack handler, gusers is put into an authorised users pop-up. If the authorised users
popup is empty, the buttons on the main screen are disabled.
If there are users present, the buttons are enabled.
if gusers is not empty
then
put "Licensed user?" & return & gusers into button "licensed user?" of
this stack
set the label of button "licensed user?" to the short name of button
"licensed user?"
else
put "Licensed user?" into button "licensed user?" of this stack
end if
This works under OS9, Win 95 and 2000 (which I have easy
access to), but not XP (which I don't). Under XP the
standalone launches, but no user names are put into the pop
up, so the navigation buttons remain disabled.
Under XP Home, numbers appear instead of the names as described in this report from a customer:
Snip
Just a quick note to let you know that in Windows XP Home edition, I get a
choice of 1,2,3,4 as users rather than my name. I am able to conduct an
assessment; however, I am also unable to print the results (printer is a
Canon). At my machine at the SAFE-T Program, we have Windows NT, and
although my name comes up as the authorized user, we are also unable to
print any of the results (HP). I have tried it on my laptop (Windows ME)
and my name appears as the authorized user; however, still unable to print
(Canon). Snip
Now the 1 2 3 4 bit suggests that XP home deals with this in a different way
to XP.
*Something* is obtained from the custom properties, but not the custom pro-
perties themselves.
Debugging this will mean borrowing machines and installing Rev on them,
so I thought it was worth a post in case the gurus know what
is going on.
I am also disheartened by the printing problems - any advice on getting
to the bottom of these? Printing seems to be fine on the combination of OS
and printers I have tested (admittedly limited, but covering main options).
Best wishes,
David Glasgow
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