WPTools v5 issues after upgrade from v4.

I am simply going to forward some of the issues we are seeing from some users and hopefully get some feedback here. The ONLY change is from v4 to v5 and we are using the absolute minimal code with the WPRichText or DBWPRichText. The only code we are using is setting the default font via the WrittingAttr and DefaultAttr, set the Header left and right margin, do a few inputstring commands and a few inputmergefields, then merge text. It is very basic, yet we are experiencing some very strange issues.

Thank you for your time.

Zitat

We are having many problems in a couple of modules today.

Letters: 2nd and subsequent lines are indenting and the button to fix it does not work. You have to play and play and play and there is no rhyme nor reason as to why or when it fixes it. Sometimes you just have to ditch your letter and do it over. (Lori and Sharen so far)

After you type your letter, review it and hit print, when you hit the okay button, your text disappears completely and you are left with just your date, inside address and salutation/greeting. The strange thing is that there is a mark blinking on the screen which is not affected by scrolling. (Lori and Sharen so far)

PO/Subcontract: When you type until you get to the right margin, document does not reposition to left margin on the wrap around of the text. You can keep typing and eventually the text will appear on the screen, but the document stays positioned to the right. (Lori)

After you catch 1 to 4 mistakes with spell check (EDSSpell) in Schedule A, the module locks up and then kicks you out. (Lori and Sharen)

Kathy experienced the problem with spell check in PO/Subcontract last week. She has not been in the module this week to see whether it is still happening.

Alles anzeigen

Ok... after many tests with the user I have found the answer to 2 of the issues, but would like to know if there is a way to prevent it.

We have a document where we create a few lines of text via code and then we create a merge field and then several more lines of text. So you get something like.

Zitat

Today's Date

FirstName LastName
Address Line 1
Address Line 2

RE: MergeField
Extending
3 Lines

Some other text

Now the first 2 problems in my original post stemmed from the fact the user put the cursor on the last line of the RE merge field text (after the word lines above). She then hit enter twice and started typing more content. Our merge field is not showing the indicators around the text so what is happening is she is actually extending the merge field and typing new text into it. Since the RE text was indented it was causing strange stuff further down several paragraphs AND when the user hit the print button we re-merge in case some other data changed which in turn deleted all of the text they typed into the now extended merge field.

So this mystery has been solved, but now how do I prevent this?

What would you recommend doing to keep a user from accidentally extending a merge field, because the merge field will re-merge again prior to printing to handle changes made elsewhere that could effect the merge text?

Thank you.

Ok...

Should a refresh be needed after the ReformatAll?

I have noticed at times I have to do a refresh to see everything updated... but perhaps I shouldn't be doing refresh.

I think part of my problem is there are many methods and properties that are in WPTools that are not clearly defined as to when they should be used or what they are really for. Not everything is this way as you do have a fair amount of documentation... but there is a lot of items a new developer with your product is left guessing about.

I definitely would love to see more examples of how to do this or how to do that type of demos that would help the new user of your components get up to speed. Looks like there is a lot of power, just a fairly decent learning curve.

My coworker who use to do this is no longer with us so it was pushed to me so I am jamming everything he learned over a 3 month period into a couple of weeks.

Thanks for your time.

Thanks for the reply... and description of the parameters for ReformatAll as I wasn't absolutely certain what they did and didn't see it in the docs (but could have missed it).

Yes... I've looked at many of the demos... I think I must just run into things where I want to know how to do x, but the demos talk about y.

I'll just post questions here if I can't find it in the help or demos.

Thanks.