I have uploaded an experimental version of b20. The automatic update check will not see this experimental version, but you can manually download and install it using this link:
panoramax://startupdatecheck?feed=xb20
Although the release notes for this version are short, the underlying changes to Panorama’s form display code are very extensive. The changes were not made in one or two spots, but spread out over dozens of files. Not a lot of lines of code changes, but a few lines here and there in nearly 100 locations in the code. When making changes that extensive sometimes there will be an unnoticed side effect elsewhere, so for the last 3 days I have been mostly testing, not coding. And I’ve found (and fix) a few new minor bugs that were caused by these changes. Though I’ve been trying to poke into every corner of the program, it’s possible that there may be more minor new problems that I haven’t caught yet, which is the reason why this release is experimental and does not automatic update.
That said, this release does have some significant fixes, and I think will have even less crashing than the b19 release, which was already a big improvement in that regard. For example, I think I may have solved the problem of occasional crashes when deleting objects from a form (can’t say for sure since I could never duplicate this issue on command), and the problem that caused “phantom” objects in some situations (for example with tab panels) is fixed.
News flash – after uploading this b20 release, I downloaded it to some other computers and discovered another new minor problem – only the first page of a multi-page report prints correctly. After page one Panorama overprints on the second and subsequent pages. So if you need to print multi-page reports, do not install this version yet. News flash 2 – This multi-page report problem has been fixed. I don’t think anyone actually read this post in the first 20 minutes, but if you did, please use the link above to download again and get the 3786 bundle with the fix to the report feature.