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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Bug in FileMaker Pro
Keywords: Claris, FileMaker Pro, bug
Message-ID: <13861@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 18:34:33 GMT
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Organization: General Electric Research & Development
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I've discovered a fairly icky bug in FileMaker Pro.  I was in the Layout
module, trying to acheive a "3D" look to text and picture fields by
drawing several-pixel-thick colored lines on top of the borders of the
field, including some little slanted guys at the corners to give a
"beveled edge" look.  When I finished, it looked pretty good, but the
construction job was a bit tedious.  So I said to myself, "No problem,
I'll just group the mess into a single object, and then duplicate it
and resize it when necessary for new fields.  The grouping and duplicating
part worked fine, but -- OOPS: when you resize the grouped object, the
nicely orthogonal lines turn into a random collection of slanted lines!

Jeeze, I thought they'd fixed this kind of problem in MacDraw II years ago.
Rumor has it that they threw out the old FileMaker II layout code entirely
and used a subset of MacDraw instead -- it's too bad to see this old and
ugly bug coming back to life.  This problem was absolutely replicable on
my IIcx running System 6.0.5 with 5 Mb RAM.  You'd think that this one
would have been found in "alpha" test, to say nothing of beta.

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com