Combo Box Probs in Latest Build

[Martyg]

Hi,
I'm trying to recreate the demo project In T's second video. When I selct a combo box for the DomainPaymentCycle field and go to add values to it, I can only see the 'Caption' Property - no 'values' field.

I decided maybe this was a feature in the later software so went on to create the list - Monthly, Quarterly etc. On trying to save and close that list I get the error - 'Caption cannot be empty' I've checked once, twice, three times and cannot find an empty caption anywhere. Also when I hit the validate button it says all is ok.

Can't get past this error - is it a bug or me doing something dumb? :confused:

Sorry, should have said this is on Tiger Software Builder Pro latest version downloaded yesterday.

[Martyg]

ok, the missing caption was real and turned out to be one I'd missed on the software object screen. Fixed that and continuing to follow T's vid 2, made a project and linked the objects to it, when i try to run it i get a box with the following in it;

System.NullReferenceException; Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Core.Factory.PropertyEditorF actory.GetEditorTpe(Editors editor)
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.UI.ClassCompile.SetPr operties(Bo bo)
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.UI.ClassCompile.Class Builder()
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.Program.RunSoftware(S tring path)
OK

I'm still concerned about the missing 'value' field on the Combo Box editor!

Any thoughts greatfully received :confused:

[TigerSoftware]

ok, the missing caption was real and turned out to be one I'd missed on the software object screen. Fixed that and continuing to follow T's vid 2, made a project and linked the objects to it, when i try to run it i get a box with the following in it;

System.NullReferenceException; Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Core.Factory.PropertyEditorF actory.GetEditorTpe(Editors editor)
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.UI.ClassCompile.SetPr operties(Bo bo)
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.UI.ClassCompile.Class Builder()
at TigerSoftware.Builder.Client.Program.RunSoftware(S tring path)
OK

I'm still concerned about the missing 'value' field on the Combo Box editor!

Any thoughts greatfully received :confused:

Marty, there is no value field any longer. Just use the caption field. I am still not sure what you are doing to get that error. Can you explain it in more detail please.


Thanks,


Thomas

[MikeM]

Marty I know the combo box works, cause I created a bunch of them yesterday. :)

On the object editor screen, just click New in the Property Items to add your drop box names. I've attached a screen shot.

One thing I did find is that if you name the combo box the same in different editors, their values show up in each editor, so you get multiple values. Is this a bug Thomas or just the way it is?

[Martyg]

Thanks Thomas and Mike for the responses.

Thomas to answer your question, I had decided to make a full out effort to get to grips with TSB Pro following the latest update. I decided to go right back to basics and follow your Video tutorials. So what I was doing was to follow you step by step in Vid 2 where you create a database of Websites. I guessed that the value property in the combo box was now redundant. So I've followed what you did, built the objects just as you did, saved the project abnd what I'm now trying to do is 'run' the software as you do in the vid so I can see what the layout looks like and get to grips with learning how to position things.

The info in my OP about the 'error message' is copied verbatim from the screen and is repeatable, it occurs soon after the 'loading' message whenever i try to 'run' the software from within the software project screen of TSB Pro.

I'm going to try a couple of things meantime;

1) Do a complete uninstal - reinstal on my desktop machine as it has prolly had most of the the TSB versions on it at sopme time.

2) Do a brand new instal on my Laptop which I don't think has ever hosted TSB Pro.

I shall be offline now until later in the week as I'm travelling a lot atm so I'll check back later to tell you if any of my fiddlings have any effect :-)

Cheers Mart