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- From: Grady Dill <gndill@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland should be ashamed. My experience with BC5.0.
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:38:15 -0500
- Organization: Netcom
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- Bob Silvern wrote:
- >
- > With the release of BC5.0, Borland has made it clear that they value
- > time-to-market far more than customer satisfaction. Within 5 minutes of use I
- > found a considerable number of serious bugs, even with Patch 1 installed.
- > There is no way that Borland could have been ignorant of these problems. I
- > have no doubt that they made the conscious decision to ship this product
- > prematurely in order not to lose market share to Microsoft and Symantec.
- > Typical of large software companies with the "get it out the door, we'll
- fix it later" attitude.
-
- > This is not the first time they have shipped a useless product. Long time[snip, snip...]
- > I invite other BC5.0 users to add to this thread any other bugs which are not
- > yet available on Borland's web site. My bug reports follow:[snip, snip...]
- > My bug report #11, Borland bug report R001911
- > March 31, 1996
- > Subject: Help bugs:
- >
- > 1) Cutting and pasting from help (e.g. unions example):
- > a) spaces are pasted as 0xA0 instead of 0x20
- > b) stupid Borland C++ 5.0 Programmer's Guide message appended. I could
- > live without this annoyance.
- >
- > 2) Help on WaveProc topic: if you click on WaveInOpen (or any low level audio
- > function) you get "You have requested information from the Microsoft Win32
- > DeveloperÆs Reference. One or more of these help files is not available on
- > your system."
- >
- > 3) Commenting out the line ":INDEX Microsoft Windows SDK Reference = WIN32.HLP"
- > in openhelp.cnt as mentioned in readme.txt prevents F1 help for windows SDK
- > functions to work. This should have at least been clearly stated, as it quite
- > a serious limitation. Sacrificing help on windows functions to have an index
- > of the other help topics is a lousy tradeoff to ask a programmer to make. This
- > problem requires a better fix.
- >
- > 4) Message box frequently appears which says only "Windows Help" with OK and
- > Cancel buttons.
- >
-
- I've encountered this before and filed a bug report against it also.
-
- [snip, snip...]
-
- I haven't had a chance to tinker around with BC5.0 much but I have encountered
- the mysterious "Windows Help" dialog several times. As for other things I've
- encountered...
-
- - OWLEX.HLP is missing, not on harddrive or CD.
-
- - Build an application from w/in the IDE and start it by pressing the 'Run'
- (lightning bolt) on the speed bar. The status bar displays
-
- Process Created: <pathname of app>
- Thread stopped <pathname of app>: At breakpoint
-
- and I have to press 'Run' AGAIN to get the application going. Happens w/ and
- w/o debug info and I didn't have any type of breakpoints set. I've tried this
- on several apps I'm trying to migrate from 4.52 and it happens all the time.
- Has anyone else encountered this or am I loosing my marbles??
-
- - Was working on a dialog definition via the integrated Resource Workshop. Saved
- off dialog changes and RC file. Went back in and all controls were in the wrong
- spot, no particular pattern. Checked the RC file textually and the controls
- were not in the order I assigned them. I haven't filed a bug report against this
- yet but will if I encounter it again.
-
- - Something about requesting an updated help file with (129) at the end of the message.
-
- Entire product seems too sloooooow. I'm running Win95 on a 486DX2-66, 16M RAM,
- and over 2G harddrive space total on 3 drives. Borland obviously COM/OLE'd the
- product like crazy. I installed it on E: (1.62G) and it just thrashes my C: (424M)
- like crazy, obviously going through the registry. They also multi-threaded it in
- lots of places I think. I'm contemplating sending it back for refund and sticking w/
- 4.52.
-
- Okay, who's next to complain???
-
- Grady
-