Re: Upgrading to Notabene K accentuates problem with U2

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Paul Breeze  Tue, 10
Mar 2009 13:12:16 +0000

Paul:

> Having just updated Notabene to 8.0k, I found it had
> accentuated a problem that I have found using U2 in Notabene,
> namely that several functions do not appear to operate
> correctly.

Hard for me to respond definitively as I never progressed beyond
v8.0A. But I'll try.

The problem you're seeing with frames SE and WCAF suggests that
v8.0K introduced a bug, or at least a change, in NB's handling of
the CAll command as applied to filespecs that contain wildcards,
such as *.TXT, FOO.B?R, etc. Both SE and WCAF rely on this feature.
The way it *should* work is that if you command, e.g., CAll *.TXT,
the first matching file with extension .TXT should open. Then if you
command FUNC EN, the next matching file should replace it in the
same window; issuing FUNC EN again should call up the next matching
file, and so on, until you encounter the error "No more files that
match specification". I suggest you try this procedure manually with
a filemask that has two or more matching files and see if it works.
If it doesn't work, then we'll have to investigate further to see if
it's a bug (e.g., func EN is broken) that needs to be reported, or
just a change in program behavior that requires a workaround.

The problem with HELP is hard to diagnose at a distance. HELP is a
complicated routine (most of the code is Robert's), and I doubt I
could work out the problem without "upgrading" to v8.0K myself --
something I'm not inclined to do, given the unusual behavior you're
reporting.

In any event, like Harry, I doubt that the problems you report have
anything to do with . But if you're seeing flaky behavior
with  on Alt-F9, it may be because of the Alt key. Alt key
assignments are notoriously balky in the Windows versions of XyWrite
and NB, because the opsys doesn't relinquish control of those keys
-- at least, not fully and not reliably. Try assigning the 
to some non-Alt key combination, or to an unshifted key. If you see
an improvement, then the answer is to stay away from Alt.

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx