Be On the Look Out!!! These are things to look for if you have weirdness with Smallworld 5 that worked under previous versions….
SWIFT Issues
Resizing/Redrawing Issues
Here are a few things to check…
- Verify that you aren't creating a secondary sw_canvas_container instead of using a sw_container. The top most container under a frame should be sw_canvas_container, but containers under this should not be sw_canvas_container, except for specialized coding…
Tabular_list_view Issues
The pre SWIFT tabular_list_views don't really work within SW5 that well. The sizing is all messed up if on a panel, or even on a multi row/col rowcol object. The best way I have seen to get the tabular_list_view working correctly is to place them inside a 1x1 rowcol object. You should still use num_rows option on the tabular_list_view along with height on the rowcol.
JARs are Locked
JARs are Locked This link provides details about JAR locking and builds.
Streams
Weird stuff with text input streams
I was seeing a "Failed to translate characters: %nul" pop up (at which point I had to kill Smallworld as there was no end to it). Error raised was text_converter_strange_input. This was reading a stream from a HTTP request. It turns out you need to define the encoding like the following before initializing the stream. Same code worked fine in 4.3, but in 5.1.5 it was failing.
_dynamic !text_encoding! << :iso8859_1
