Jan Schulz

Oh my, wasn't there a more professional way to do this:


Basicly it looks like they took two things and just placed them on top of each other... When you click on the splash screen you can move it around, but without the progress bar. If you click on another process and then on the notes process, only the progressbar is shown (fun again...).

Anyway: back to the basic client... Why?

• You can open two ID Files/ Notes instances at the same time (normal and Admin)
• Simple much faster
• a lot easier for the admin (i know the internals of my data directory to fix any isue I came across, but not of the data/workspace one...)
• I haven't found anything in the fancy new UI, which I really need.
  

8.5 will be bad: I can't open two IDs anymore, because I need the designer client in my admin instance, which is usually the second client I open. And using Designer in 8.5 means that I have to open my admin notes first (one of them can be a standard client, but it must be the first one), which basicly means that each time I have to look something up in the design, I have to close my normal basic notes, my admin basic notes, open the admin standard notes, switch to designer and open my normal notes. And it takes ages to open a not-yet-opend database in DDE. This sucks!

... or to hell...

Currently I'm trying to build an LS framework, which is runtime configurable. Instead of using static functions or simple class extention, I try to build an object graph, where each object adds some functionality. So something which needs to run after a Document is saved will add a observer to the document model and do the work in the right callback method. This results in small objects and class libs, but lots of use of "Use". Unfortunatelly designer seems to be unable to cope with this. Right now I'm in a situation, where designer compiles my code, if I press strg+s, but is sent into an endless loop if I use "Recompile all Lotusscript".

Other fun includes "Use" ordering:
this compiles with strg+s (but sends "Recompile all" into an endless loop):

Use "class::logger"
Use "de.katzien.App.Infomail"
Use "de.katzien.App.InfomailDB"
Use "de.katzien.ls.Email"

this not:

Use "class::logger"
Use "de.katzien.App.InfomailDB"
Use "de.katzien.App.Infomail"
Use "de.katzien.ls.Email"

The only change is the ordering... Error: Duplicate PUBLIC Name "CHANGE_LISTENER_EVENT_BEFORE_CHANGING" in USE de.katzien.App.Infomail
This name is the public Const in script lib "MonitoringCapability", which is use'd directly by .App.Infomail and indirectly by .App.InfomailDB (uses InfomailEntry which uses MonitoringCapability). setting this to private just ends up with the next error and I can't set a complete class to private if I want to use that class in some other lib...

And don't even ask about "Illegal Circular Use".

@IBM: Please improve the Compiler for LotusScript!