IWB still the best

[Bruce Peaslee]

I raised this question in a private forum dealing with the IDE, but I want to talk about my experience here.

After years of successful programming, I suddenly found that I could no longer paste code into IWB documents. On a couple of occasions I thought I had solved the problem, but it came back. With my style of programming (verbose is too mild a term), copy and paste are essential. I am involved with a project for a group of people and had to have something to show for today. (Missed the deadline). To try and meet the deadline, I switched to C++. Having experience with Aurora, I figured that I could put something together and come back to the paste problem later. Not only did this not work, it was a nightmare. I spent hours trying to draw a line on the window, researching MSDN and the net, only to find out that MoveToEX() is not MoveToEx(). (Capitalization counts in C++). Even when I finally caught that, line drawing and bitmap insertions are far from trivial.

I hope folks realize what a boon IWB is to programming. So much of the Windows API is handled behind the scenes. For all practical purposes, my productivity went to zero (or NULL, not null, in C++). Even making progress on a large learning curve with C++ will never result in the coding speed I have with IWB.

In spite of my frustration, one good thing came from this. All of a sudden, the C++ editor stopped taking pastes. I thought it must be my machine, but I couldn't reason how that would be possible, as I could still paste into Word documents. In turns out the both editors use Scintilla. Googling "Scintilla won't paste" revealed that my virus detector blocked the paste. I was also informed that my protection defaulted to “Silently and automatically block untrusted access to user data”. [MSDN not trusted  ] Changing that caused warning messages to appear and gave me the option to allow the paste.

I hope this resolves the issue. It seems to have. It's good to be home.

[LarryMc]

I never have run into that pasting issue that you have suffered through and I truly hope that does solve your problem.

and you know I L-O-V-E-E-E  IWBasic !!!