leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue) (11/16/90)
I've discovered a fairly icky bug in FileMaker Pro. I was in the Layout module, trying to acheive a "3D" look to text and picture fields by drawing several-pixel-thick colored lines on top of the borders of the field, including some little slanted guys at the corners to give a "beveled edge" look. When I finished, it looked pretty good, but the construction job was a bit tedious. So I said to myself, "No problem, I'll just group the mess into a single object, and then duplicate it and resize it when necessary for new fields. The grouping and duplicating part worked fine, but -- OOPS: when you resize the grouped object, the nicely orthogonal lines turn into a random collection of slanted lines! Jeeze, I thought they'd fixed this kind of problem in MacDraw II years ago. Rumor has it that they threw out the old FileMaker II layout code entirely and used a subset of MacDraw instead -- it's too bad to see this old and ugly bug coming back to life. This problem was absolutely replicable on my IIcx running System 6.0.5 with 5 Mb RAM. You'd think that this one would have been found in "alpha" test, to say nothing of beta. -Bill Leue leue@crd.ge.com