SP1 frustration

Question

Hi there
After experiencing the many issues with with the 2008 release I was looking forward to SP1, however there seems to be just as many issues......
Within an hour of using SP1 the application has crashed 3 times and I've found at least 4 bugs.  The state of the app makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to use and is incredibly frustrating.
The issues I've found so far are:
1.  The font colour for vertical and horizontal titles seems to randomly change - I'm using 6 charts, all with white as the font colour.  Mysteriously they've all changed to black in preview mode (white in normal mode) and whatever I do they won't change back to white.  I'll probably have to start my dashboard again but presumably the same issue will happen, so I'm wondering if I just abandon the tool altogether.
2.  Xcelsius seems to open multiple background instances of Excel when using the tool - these instances are not closed when Xcelsius is closed.  The only way to fix this is to kill them using the task manager otherwise it slows my machine down.  After a short session working with Xcelsius I had 31 instances of Excel running in the background.......
3.  The List View component produces an error when enabling the vertical scroll button.  The title row is replaced with the top most row's data and all of the formating becomes inconsistent.
4.  Within the spreadsheet component it's not possible to change the font colour, and changing the border colour has no effect.  When trying to use this component Xcelsius keeps crashing.
Please can someone help - Xcelsius is fast becoming a waste of space on my machine, and is wasting a lot of my time (and most other users I suspect).
Many thanks
Scott Wallace.

Answer 1

Hi Javier
Thanks for your help - much appreciated.  I'm not sure whether I can attach the xlf I'm working on to this post - please could you forward an email address?  I've highlighted all of the issues:
1.  Changing axis title font colour on charts - black in design view and white in preview mode.  I think this may be related to the use of the label based menu.
2.  Multiple instances of Excel open in the background - Is this a recognised bug, and if so is there a fix or workaround for it?
3.  List view causes machine to crash and header row formatting inconsistent - it looks like this may be related to using header cells not formatted as text in the xls?
4.  Thanks
5.  Grid component doesn't maintain its size - there are 3 grouped grid components in the attached xlf.  The one that displays the titles along the top won't maintain its size - if you ungroup, change its size to fit the data columns, save, close and reopen - the cells will have reverted to their original size.
Margaret - thanks for your input.  The correct properties windows show for the components and as you can see the xlf and associated xls are small, so hopefully this isn't causing the problems.
Thanks
Scott.
Edited by: Scott Wallace on Sep 15, 2008 11:02 AM