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From: dav@gtc.com (David L. Markowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: dbxtool weirdness
Summary: Open Windows 2.0 dbxtool badly broken
Keywords: dbxtool
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.183505.18899@gtc.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:35:05 GMT
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
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The dbxtool distributed with OW 2.0 is so badly broken I gave up and
now run the Sunview dbxtool in compatibility mode.

Among its many problems:

1. It enforces click-to-type when I have set point-to-type.

2. It frequently hangs completely (sometimes hanging the entire
desktop!) when using the arrow keys in the command window.  This
happens every time I try to scroll back up over a command line that is
larger than the window.

3. When editing is disabled, the program display window shows no
indication of where the current line is (useful for setting breakpoints
et. all) after single clicking.  You must select something by double or
triple clicking, or dragging the mouse.  Sunview showed a caret, even
if editing is disabled.

Is anyone really using this thing?

-- 
	David L. Markowitz
	Genisco Technology Corporation
	dav@gtc.com