/ FAQ / FAQThanks to all the people who had spend their time to report these bugs to me!
If you have found bugs not listed below or in the FAQ, send
your mail to 
freevcs@thensle.de
PLEASE include the FreeVCS version, the Delphi version and the
operating (& network) system in the body of your e-mail if
sending bug reports.
Please do provide all the necessary steps in greatest detail to
reproduce the problem.
BTW: Bugs in FreeVCS: Currently we have 3 versions of Delphi
(Standard/ Pro / C/S) in 3 states (4.0/ 4.01/ 4.02) running on 3
operating systems (95 / 98/ NT [SP3/ SP4] / NT5?) with BDE V5.0/
BDE V5.1. Some people working alone with a local archive, some
share the archive via a network (Windows/ Novell...)
Remember that FreeVCS is a (free) one-man development and I have
neither the time nor the soft- or hardware to test all these
combinations.
In addition FreeVCS runs inside the IDE and is very difficult to
debug with Delphi's debug tools. (Either a function works or
not.) If anyone knows a way to debug a DLL loaded by the IDE
please let me know!
Calling the preview form more than one time (without closing
the report form) may cause an access violation on some systems
(unfortunatly not on my systems?).
WA: Close the report form before calling the
preview form the next time if this happens on your system.
File-based reports (Project list, Backup list..) are not
selected correctly if you change the project in the report form.
(The preview shows always the files associated with the project
currently opened in the IDE.)
WA: Select the project in Delphi to see the
correct reports.
The error messages in file-based reports are asssignend to the
the wrong string ressource:
Instead of showing 'Error while trying to load the file
<...>!' they will show 'CRC Test: Not tested.':
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Watching (and limiting) the size of the logfile does not work.
WA: You must watch the size (and delete old
entrys) by yourself.
The FreeVCS On-line help window, started from within Delphi
will not be closed automatically if the IDE is closed (although I
try to close it).
WA: You must close the help window by yourself.
Reports & Printing does not save the new Desktop position.
WA: Open & close the form without showing a
Preview.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
FreeVCS (Delphi? the BDE? NT40 SP4?) seems to have a problem
with archive names longer than 8 chars in Windows NT: The
secondary index will not be created and you will get the error 'No
index field for FNAME'. I tried to add this index by the
database desktop but it was the same: all seems to be OK but if I
reopen the database the secondary index is not there. If anyone
has an idea what's going on here, please let me know!
WA: The project's filename (= the archive name)
should be no longer than 8 chars if any of the user is working
with NT.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
Notify message 'disconnected from...' will not be shown
regularly.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
Notify message 'module removed' shows not the actual removed
but the next module in the Treeview.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
'Show last version' in 'Check Out' will not work on the last
module in the Treeview.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
The context menu item 'Import Delphi's MRU' does not add any
files to the MRU list.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
Do not close the report form while a preview form is visible!
This will terminate your Delphi session without saving changed
files or the environment!
WA: Close the preview form before closing
the report form!
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
You cannot Exit Windows while 'FreeVCS Notify' is active.
WA: Close the Notify application before closing
Windows.
Fixed in Version 1.1 of FVCSNotify
'Check Archive' sometimes leads to an GPV with an archive
located at a Windows Peer to Peer network?
WA: Although I am not able to reproduce this
problem on my system you may select File | Save All before
starting Check.
Should be fixed in Version 1.1.5
Report 'Logfile' does not show the last line of the logfile.
This pertains also to 'Projectlist' & 'Component list'.
WA: Use 'Properties | Backup/Log' to view the
complete file.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
You will get an exception on 'Archive Admin | BDE Info' if
working on Windows NT without admistrator rights. (Registry key
was opened with HKEY_ALL_ACCESS).
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
It seems as if the 'Properties dialog' does not always save
the 'NETDIR' corectly.
WA: Check the value 'NETDIR' before closing the
'Properties dialog'.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
If you share a file between different projects and check it
out from one archive none of the other archives will recognize
this.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
The popup menu item 'copy to clipboard' in archive/BDE info
will not copy anything to the clipboard.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
The new File open dialog in version 1.1 has a bug when you
select a file by a double click (the path gets lost and 'Check
In' will not work).
WA: Mark the file[s] in the list view and use
the button 'Open'.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
It seems as if Version 1.1 does not set the NETDIR value
correctly. (This may lead to problems with shared archives).
WA: Start the BDE Configuration utility (BDE
Administrator) and select the Drivers|Native|Paradox entry in the
‘Drivers & Systems’ page. Set the definition
‘NET DIR’ to the same folder as in 'Properties'.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
Under some circumstaces the 'Export Archive to dBase' function
in 'Archive Admin' won't work corectly.(The dBase archive can not
be opened).
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
The popup menu 'Help Topic' in Keywords does not work.
WA: Select 'Keywords' from the help index.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
After changing the active project in a project group Project
Admin | Project Group does not find the .bpg file.
WA: Change the default project directly after
loading the project group.
There is also a bug if you have more than 4 or 5 projects in one
project group.
WA: Use the IDE commands Build sooner/ Build
later to set the default project.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
Although the message after synchronizing suggests to update
the .dsk file nothing will be updated.
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
Check In does not (always) check correctly if there is already
a module with the same keyword in the archive, so you can have
two (or more) modules with the same keyword in the archive (not
recommended!).
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
The documentation about sharing archives over a network was
incorrect! Instead of setting the NETDIR to: (Usually the same as
<Default folder>) this is correct: (Do not point the NETDIR
to the same location as the <Default folder>!)
If have also forgotten to say that you must set 'Local Share' to
true!
Fixed in Version 1.1
Canceling the print dialog will lead to some confusion in the
windows Z-Order:
WA: You have to go back to the preview form
using <ALT> & <TAB>, selecting the icons in the
task list will not work.
(Fixed in V 1.2.0)
If you closing the Windows-OpenDialog (in Create or Project
Admin) sometimes the underlying IDE window lost his position in
the Z-Order of the desktop until the VCS forms are closed.
Does anyone know what's going on here? Please let me know!
Fixed in Version 1.1 (Not really, because there
wasn't anyone with a solution V1.1 does not use the internal
OpenFile dialog, I've created my own.)
(Fixed in V 1.2.0) - really
'Resizing' of the Check In dialog works not correctly.
Fixed in Version 1.1
The popup menu 'Help Topic' in Recent Projects does not work.
Fixed in Version 1.1
The field 'Memo' in the reports is mostly blank.?
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
After showing the preview form some temporary files
(QRPxxx.tmp) may be left in the TEMP directory.
WA: To spare disk size these files should be
deleted manually after Delphi is closed.
Does anyone know what's going on here? Please let me know!
Fixed in Version 1.1
There are some problems if opening the 'Compare form' while
the archive is still empty (However it makes no sense to start
compare if there is nothing to compare).
WA: Do not use Compare with an empty archive.
Fixed in Version 1.1
There are problems (Access violation) with the directory
browse dialog on big (> 2 GB) NTFS partitions.
Fixed in Version 1.1
Under some circumstaces the 'Copy Archive' function in
'Archive Admin' won't work corectly.
Fixed in Version 1.1 (I hope)
Reason for the 'mystic' order of the entries in the list boxes
of Check In and Project Admin is that I have to sort them by the
full pathnames (although you cannot see them).
WA: At the moment there is no known workaround.
Fixed in Version 1.1.5
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