iCalMaker

Chasing bugs…

Just spent some time chasing three bugs.

One I don’t think I have nailed. It appears that on some machines users are experiencing a ‘white rectangle’ when the ‘order’ window appears during comma- or tab-delimited import. For some reason I cannot reproduce this problem and there is nothing obvious in the code. My guess is that a ‘redraw’ is not being correctly called, therefore, all I have done is rearrange some of the code in the hope that the change in call order will solve the problem.

The second bug seems to have resulted in a change in the format of some repeating events introduced by iCal 1.5. This bug has been found, and dealt with!

The third is a re-occurring problem with comma-delimited imports. It seems that the ‘rules’ on ‘comma-delimited’ format are some what flexible and dependent on the program that produces the ‘comma-delimited’ file. Having produced code that deals with several of these format variations I have now been faced with yet another. The code for ‘comma-delimited’ has undergone yet another re-write….

The build is now out with beta testers and if there are no reports of additional problems iCalMaker 1.5.2 will be released on Friday or early next week.