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I have Windows XP service pack 3. In the Commercial 6.5.2, it randomly cuts off half the letters in my script, in fields, on buttons... Even after I compile, it gives me this random behavior. I reported it as a bug a week or so ago and was told they couldn't duplicate it. I can attach a screenshot if necessary. I'm not making this up. Anyone have any ideas on this, or is it really a bug?

Hi,

Attach a screen shot, to make sure that everyone (me too) understands exactly what is going on. Can you post a link to the bug report? Does this happen occasionally or all the time? Have you asked RunRev if they have tested it with Win XP SP3?¨What are your hardware specs?

Kind regards,

Mark

Hello Mark,
It's a very random thing, but makes my compiled program completely unreliable. I've abandoned the commercial 6.5.2 because of this problem and gone back to community 6.1.1 The thing that drives me most crazy is that I spend a huge amount of time coding and then cannot rely on getting the results I expect. Please see attachment. This happens all over the place: in fields as you see in the attachment (which is completely unacceptable in the compiled product) and also in the scripts, which I can live with.

Hi,

It seems that your text is not antialiased. What happens if you change some display settings in Win XP? Try setting everything to default values. Does that make a difference? If it does, you can report that to RunRev.

Kind regards,

Mark

It looks like the same thing that happens when you have tabstops set to a small value. I don't suppose you've set tabstops on those fields, but check. Regardless of the setting, try setting the tabstops to a very large value, like 500. Does it still happen if you do that?

Jacque,

If I set the tabStops of a field to 3 and enter a value in that field, I see the value normally. If I set the borderColor to white and the vGrid to true, the text disappears completely. This doesn't look similar to OP's problem, but I guess he could check it.

Kind regards,

Mark