Re: Announcing Damien v0.01a -- The IDE for VEL

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Hi Ad,

Thanks for the compliments.

Ad Rienks <kwibus at ZONNET.NL> wrote:

>Hi Gary,
>
>WOW! Damien is beautiful, well worth the waiting for it! Before I
downloaded
>it, I first read the text on your website, and I thought: "Maybe a bit
>overdone, the comparisons with Delphi and VB IDE's". But, as far as I can
>see now, after maybe 15 minutes, Damien totally lives up to the
expectations
>for an alpha/beta release.
>I think you're lucky that you didn't give up on VEL, when the reception
>wasn't what you expected it to be. Now this product has to have a better
>reception, I'm quite sure of that!
>
>But, after the cheering, there always is a moment of contemplation, and
then
>you have to go back to the programming dungeon to get some bugs out and new
>features in. Well, I found some (minor) bugs, here they are:
>
>- You forgot to put vel005.e in the zip file.

vel005.e is included in the bound exe so you don't need it.

>- The editor doesn't accept TAB keys.

I'll look into this.

>- When I ran a test program, all controls of the IDE disappeared, as they
>should, except for the Form. I still was there in the background, only
>unclickable and unclosable.

The form that you see without the IDE is your program being executed. When
you're finished, just close it and the IDE returns.

>- The main form doesn't have the CENTERED attribute in the object
inspector.
>

Do you mean CENTERFORM, because it's there?

>I'm sure these are minor bugs/omissions, that can be worked out quite
>easily. But you surely deserve a big compliment for this excellent piece of
>software.
>
>Keep up the good work!
>
>Ad Rienks

Thanks again... Gary.

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