Testing BlackBox 1.7-rc1.606: some issues
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:18 pm
Hi all,
First of all I would like to thank the Center members for the hard work they have done to keep BlackBox CB alive and kicking!
While testing I encountered very little issues, but I'd like to draw attention to two points:
1. Subsystem Ctl no longer has interface modules to older versions of Excel and other MS Office applications, e.g. CtlExcel8. This leads to compiler error messages when compiling some often used subsystems, like Robert Campbell's Lib from CPC. I asked Robert and he wrote me that the Excel part was written by a now retired collegue of his, so that it's not easy to update the Excel related modules of Lib.
The easiest solution is to manually copy CtlExcel8 from BlackBox 1.6 to 1.7 but it would be better for first time users that this would be unnecessary. Why not put all the older interface modules present in BB 1.6 also into 1.7 ?
2. BlackBox menu 'Attributes' has two almost identical items: 'Font...' and 'Typeface...'. The latter is a subset of the former so I would say that menu item 'Typeface...' is superfluous and can be left out. Maybe in older versions or on the Mac 'Typeface...' had some extra functionality but now it hasn't.
Cheers, Hans
First of all I would like to thank the Center members for the hard work they have done to keep BlackBox CB alive and kicking!
While testing I encountered very little issues, but I'd like to draw attention to two points:
1. Subsystem Ctl no longer has interface modules to older versions of Excel and other MS Office applications, e.g. CtlExcel8. This leads to compiler error messages when compiling some often used subsystems, like Robert Campbell's Lib from CPC. I asked Robert and he wrote me that the Excel part was written by a now retired collegue of his, so that it's not easy to update the Excel related modules of Lib.
The easiest solution is to manually copy CtlExcel8 from BlackBox 1.6 to 1.7 but it would be better for first time users that this would be unnecessary. Why not put all the older interface modules present in BB 1.6 also into 1.7 ?
2. BlackBox menu 'Attributes' has two almost identical items: 'Font...' and 'Typeface...'. The latter is a subset of the former so I would say that menu item 'Typeface...' is superfluous and can be left out. Maybe in older versions or on the Mac 'Typeface...' had some extra functionality but now it hasn't.
Cheers, Hans