Re: Announcing Damien v0.01a -- The IDE for VEL
- Posted by Gary Dumer <dumer9354 at MY-DEJA.COM> Nov 09, 1999
- 549 views
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.