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From: jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: PowerWindows
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Date: 26 Jan 91 02:48:06 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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In article <1991Jan25.210054.9388@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K 
Schuermann) writes:
> Overall, I agree with whoever said some time ago, something along the
> lines that PowerWindows 2.5 has enough bugs to make you want to
> rewrite it, but is not quite buggy enough to make it useless enough to
> force you to do it.  One of these days ...
> 

     I agree with you ! Power Windows is quite dangerous for your nerves ! 
Happends sometimes that it will GURU in the midle of your work without any 
warnings (and before you could save it). It may also go wild when 
generating the code (especially when you deal with a lot of graphics), 
once the only way I had to go around the bug was to generate the datas in 
2 parts (that means you'll have to modify all the references of one of the 
2 files, by hand since it'll use the same var names for the 2 files). It 
lacks an option to put "chip" in front of the graphic datas for the 
Lattice too.

       You really want to rewrite it yourself in fact, but you never have 
the time. And it is soooo usefull, that you still use it... But you 
definitely wait for something else (or a new version). And note that 
version 2.5 is allready a big improvement from earlier versions (like the 
first one didn't want you to use windows of more than 200 lines, great for 
PAL users)

        JNM

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