Over on the Association of REALbasic Professionals website, I wrote up a short review of REAL Studio 2010 R1. Look in the Blogs and Opinions section or follow this link.
Summary: Smallish interim release with not a whole lot of new features. Bunch of bug fixes. A couple of new bugs introduced that may or may not affect you.
My review of REALbasic 2009 Release 5 (and 5.1) is up on the ARBP website in the blogs section. Direct link.
I’ve been using 5.1 exclusively the past week or so and it seems to be stable so now I can move up from R3. Thankfully, the huge SQLite bugs introduced in R5 have been fixed in R5.1. Reporting still has issues though.
RS released RB 2009 R3 today. I won’t go into any big detail here as I wrote a fairly lengthy review of the changes over on ARBP. I will hit on one change that I’m particular happy about.
Back in May is posted about the stupid error message and problem that occurs when you load a version control project with missing files. I am happy to report that it’s much better now. The IDE will ask for the missing file and if you click cancel it will load as much of the project as possible. Before it would just stop loading the project and you’d get a mysterious File Error 0 message. Now you get this error message:
This is great but in one project due to file corruption issues I clicked cancel over 25+ times. So at this point this dialog isn’t exceptionally helpful because it tells me something bad has happened it just doesn’t give me a clue as to which ones were bad unless I happened to write every one of them down at the time the dialog was shown.
What would be more helpful is having a log file of missing files generated or list the files in System.DebugLog. Either way it would more helpful. Ideally I’d love to have the option to have it stop asking for the missing files and just create the log file but I understand that the IDE might have to undergo some significant changes to allow that.
And before anyone says it, of course it’s my fault, if the files weren’t corrupt/missing to begin with I wouldn’t have this issue. Stuff happens – get over it. Regardless, this one improvement will make my life a little saner.
Is there one fix/new feature that is really good news or bad news for you? What do you think of the EditField deprecation and subsequent replacement with TextField and TextArea controls?