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I am creating new custom controls, which I normally do by copying an existing control with similar functionality, then editing it. In this instance I have a control I copied and edited, but I want to replace it with another custom control that has button decorations instead of links. Rather than copy all the stuff over one by one, it’s simplere to replace it entirely.
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So I delete the custom control. Let’s call it ccOne. It’s gone from DDE.
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Then I copy and paste another control. Let’s call it ccTwo. I see “ccTwo_1” in DDE.
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I rename this to ccOne. Remember, ccOne is gone, so I rename it just fine.
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When I open the “new” ccOne, I do not see ccTwo’s code, as I would expect, since I just made a copy of ccTwo and renamed it. Instead I see the original ccOne code.
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I do this again. And again. And one more time just to be sure. It does this consistently every single time.
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Then I close the nightmare DDE and do the above after relaunch, it works as expected.
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I’d like to know how Lotus expects applications to be developed when the “IDE” randomly fails to function? How can the developer have even one iota of faith in the build system if it randomly and catastrophically fails? How can one know if any particular build is even valid, rather than some other random catastrophic failure that will squander more and more hours of valuable time vainly attempting to work around it??
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It’s almost to the point where the only way to have the slightest assurance that the nightmare DDE may happen to build, is to close it after each and every edit. Is this what Lotus calls a “gold” product???