Subject Re: report designer
From Gaetano <gaetanodd@hotmail.com>
Date Sun, 8 Nov 2020 07:56:01 +1000
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 08/11/2020 05:12, Ken Mayer wrote:
> On 11/7/2020 8:41 AM, Willem Carp wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Every other time I open the report designer in dBase 2019, dBase
>> crashes. What could be the problem?
>
> It could be a lot of things, unfortunately the Report Designer is not
> the most stable interface in the software. Suggest as a precaution you
> use Ctrl+S a lot when working on your reports, and make a backup before
> you start working on them. It's a useful tool, but something broke in
> there, and I am not sure even the folk at dBase, LLC know what it is.
>
> Ken
>

Agreed for ctrl-w, I have banned it completely, that fixed my report
designer crashes and I also haven't had any weird compilation issues for
PRG files either (PRO file not refreshed and in turn PRG updates not
included in the executable file, or PRO more recent than the PRG file -
go figure...).