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2003-08-27 05:57:02 AM
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some attention, and is probably easy to fix.
We waste a lot of time with it terminating all the time. Even the D5 type
lib editor is unstable, but better.
 

This is a really ugly bug, and a possible fix is already suggested in
the comments, so it shouldn't cost you much time to fix it.
Generally I think I have paid a lot of money for Delphi. So if I post a
bug, which is confirmed by others, and which can be reproduced reliably,
then I expect Borland to fix it - no matter how the votes look like.
Otherwise QC is more or less worthless for me.
Thanks for listening.
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First of all let me command you on the initiative!
I've only used the trial version of Delphi 7 (the full version should be here this
week), and I have come across this bug (in the IDE) quite a lot -- could not
see a pattern though. I have tried to search for something similar in QC, but
I couldn't find anything. Every now-and-then (about once in 2 hours,
sometimes more often) the code insight shows me a "blank" list -- not sure
how to explain this. Here's a picture:
student.claytonstate.net/~csu10711/Delphi/d7.gif
They only way to get around it is to restart Delphi. Did anybody encounter
this? If yes, what's the QC number so I can vote for it...
Thank you all.
 

However, if you add it to QC maybe others would agree and you could
get a feature request passed in the next release.
type libary at any time?
automagically.
suggestions are not tracked how will they ever make it on the possible
future features list?
Robert Love
 

 

Anders,
Because it is an intermittent access violation I haven't yet been
able to reproduce it reliably. But it occurs at least one out of
every twenty times that I invoke Code Completion.
Yet it has been closed because there are no reproducible steps.
I find this hard to swallow. it is like sticking your head in the
sand and pretending there is no bug just because I don't have
days or weeks to spare to try to reproduce this.
When one of my customers reports such a bug, I do my darn best
to reproduce it _myself_ and to fix it, because I am ashamed to
sell an application with intermittent access violations.
At least a Borland developer could stick the AV address into
the de{*word*81} and see if it gives a clue. It might narrow the
problem down and perhaps he or she could find a way to reproduce
it in a few hours.
Oh, and you could at least put the unofficial ActionBands update
in the update pack.
Best regards,
Frederik.
 

patch addressing your needs.
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David Erbas-White writes:
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Karlheinz Späth writes:
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Dave White writes:
down about 4 minutes.
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"Ignacio Vazquez" <ivazquezATorioncommunications.com>wrote in
keep more people happy if they fix Bug A rather than Bug B, if Bug A has
10x more votes.
Perhaps what's really needed is an app that will trawl through the ngs here
and match up bug rants with QC entries and record votes accordingly :-). Of
course it would need to maintain a black list of posters to ignore or else
Delphi would quickly morph into Java <g>.
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When you provide statistic you have to count user s per project not a full
list
we can have 5 people registered on Delphi project and 500 for CBuilder
you do not distinguish between a users, so you cannot operate with statistic
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"Anders Ohlsson (Borland)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>wrote in
for it, so I did that also. I haven't reposted it here, so interested
parties can QC on over to it, and cast a vote at the same time :-)
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I must confess, this thread has me using QC for the
first time. The client app is pretty cool.
Anyway, I am open for thread campaigners to grab
my remaining votes !
Already voted for 2002 and 2511 :-)
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I would really love to vote, but I am having difficulty finding information where to
vote or how to use the client interface. Do you have a simpler web-alternative
instead of the custom client?
If not, then anybody tell me here how to view the different issues and how to vote.
Joe
In article <3f4bc3dc$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, XXXX@XXXXX.COM says...
|OK. So I figured it would be an incredibly easy task to get the worst stinky bugs
|(imagine SpongeBob's sundae here)...
|
|Quality Central (QC) *is* the way that you give us feedback on what sucks. So I go
|can look at qc.borland.com/ where the top 10 voted issues are listed.