Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mum.cis.ohio-state.edu!layne From: layne@mum.cis.ohio-state.edu (eric b layne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Version 2.0 of 4th Dimension Message-ID: <62815@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 20:46:17 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: eric b layneOrganization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 22 I too think version 2 is much faster already. It also has many nice new features. However, there are some things that are a bit wierd. There is no way to delete fields or files. The manuals say to save your unwanted files/fields in case you need them later. This seems like a step backwards to me. Any idea of the reason behind it? The window system doesn't work the same way. Before the window appeared on top of what ever was on the screen. (i.e. dialog, input layout, etc.) Now, it reverts back to the title screen and displays the window. This is not always desirable. Has anyone else had problem with the modify record command. Sometimes 4d totally ignores that command (I'll go into debug mode and watch it and it doesn't do anything when it hits it.) I was also hoping the new version would include some way to access data in other 4d file. You know, the way Foxbase has the view window where you can load multiple databases. I also can't find the 100X speed improvement Acius promised. Foxbase is much faster at indexing.