[Dx4win] The Demo Bug... Zapped again!!!

[Mel]

Someone suggested I delete the Demo log...

This is definitely not a work around. The problem has nothing to do with 
the files on the disk, it is most likely an out-of-range index or a 
buffer overrun. We are all still at risk.

In any case, I don't have a demo log... I deleted it long ago.

If anyone does encounter this bug, please report exactly what you were 
doing when it happened. It might be helpful to Paul...

To Paul:
In the meantime Paul... you could mitigate the effect of this bug by 
allowing the export of the log when in Demo mode. Being unable to save 
to a logfile would be sufficiently inconvenient and annoying to prevent 
piracy. Or you could time-out the demo program after 15 minutes and 
force a save. The present scheme is overkill and hurts your paying 
customers not the pirates.

Mel, VE2DC...

Mel wrote:
> It got me again...
> This time I was paying attention and made some observations...
> 
> Though you can't save the log, you can filter and print it... so you 
> can, at least, have a printout of recent activity... in my case it was 
> just the last 2 QSOS.
> 
> I did note that the bug strikes when using filters. I was confirming 
> multiple QSOs for a station, so I was working with a small group of 
> filtered QSOs and making multiple updates, one at a time using point and 
> click.
> 
> So I would suggest that you always do a save before working with filters 
> until this is tracked down.
> 
> For Paul...
> 
> There is some kind of bug when working with filters. Perhaps it is 
> related to the way I work... but I have run into errors when making 
> multiple point and click changes followed by F10. Symptoms include: A 
> record outside of the filtered set suddenly appearing in the list, F10 
> not stepping to the next record in sequence. I noticed this latter 
> behaviour just before D4W lost track of the fact it is licensed. I was 
> not able to reproduce the bug. I hope this helps in tracking it down...
> 
> Mel, VE2DC
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