Very Computer

1. Agonizing over Pdx 8 over 7, and a significant Pdx 8 problem (HELP)

My organization's IS department is busy installing the new Corel Suite 8 which
includes Paradox 8, so I saw it as inevitable that the work I was doing would
have to migrate to version 8.  When I saw Service Pack 1 come out, I thought,
finally, some maturity to the version is at hand, now that a major bug-fix has
come out.  As I evaluated the product, I ran into this problem, which if
unsolvable, will cause me to go thumbs-down on version 8, and maybe go to a
competing product altogether (much as I really like Paradox and oPAL).

The problem:
In my form, assume a box object contains an edit field.  I want to attach a
keyChar method to the box, and a keyChar with a passEvent in the edit field.  
The problem is the project viewer in 8.  If I add a keyChar method and give it
the proper method header of "method keyChar(var EventInfo KeyEvent)" -- when I
save it, it is not visible in the object explorer for retrieval. Instead, I
have to press <new event>, type in keyChar, and then the code I saved comes up,
but in the code window, it shows in the second mthod pulldown, "action" as
though there was no entry for my custom built-in method, but rather that the
code sorter, simply came up with action as the first item in the list.  The
problem is compounded by if the uiobject in fact has an action method already
attached to it.   In that case a click in the method pulldown in the code
window, causes the keychar method code to disappear, and the previously coded
action method to appear.  To bring the keychar code back, I have to go back to
<new method> and type "keychar" again to bring up my saved keychar code.

I hope this is a documented solvable problem.  If not, it freezes my paradox 8
development efforts in their tracks.  With the forms complexity I'm dealing
with, if I can't depend on the smooth and problem-free operation of the object
explorer and code window, then back to version 7, and that for me would
eventually spell the deathknell of Paradox, as other products gain market-share
and robustness.

George Alexeief
Los Angeles

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