News in pleanty, good and bad

I've rewritten the script command.

The script client is now broken (out of date), but the script command works now with both the interactive text client and the Swing client. And it uses a form for the entry of the script.

The script command also works with commands which use forms. So you can write a script to register a collection of users.

The login command, because of the login events that it creates, will require some specialized code for it to use forms. So this will get delayed until after the script client is working.

And there are bugs in the database. It hangs or crashes at times and nested transactions just don't work. Developing forms has given me lots of experience in working with the database, especially odd cases caused by bad form code--which the database should be capable of recovering from!

So I'll be working on the database this weekend. Specifically, transactions. :-(

Can I say its still alpha? At least the idea of composable forms has worked out very well. This allows the application programmer to focus on the business logic, not presentation and not harry stuff like thread locks and transactions.

Bill