Various smaller bugs
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:04 pm
Hi there
While using OS 4.1 Update 2 on my Sam440Flex (800 Mhz, 1 GB Ram, Radeon 9250 128 MB), I stumbled over some smaller issues and each time wrote them down. So here's my little collection of smaller bugs and other issues, that I would appreciate a lot, if addressed. I try to be as specific as possible in showing the steps to reproce, but if anything's unclear, just tell me and I'll upload a screenshot or another to clearify...
WB-Windows:
- After dragging the slider, the size of the slider is not being recalculated. It then indicates to have some content even if there isn't. The recalculation only happens when resizing the window or pressing a slider-arrow.
Prefs/Locale:
- Country: Thai-Fonts seem not to be present (shows squares in column "Local name") --> this means the default font doesn't include thai characters. It would be nice to have a default font that does.
Prefs/Pointer:
- When using a 16:9 resolution, the color chooser is not drawn as a proper circle.
- The new default 32bit mouse pointers are very nice, but it's very confusing, that this (meaning: the existence of def_pointer.info in ENVARC:Sys/) overrides the settings of the Pointer prefs. 'Pointer' should be updated to be able to handle / edit the new 32bit pointers.
Prefs/WBPattern:
- using the layout "Scale" or "Scale well" in OS3.9, an image would always keep its proportions. Now the image is streched to fit the screen. It would be best to have both options: "Scale (fit screen)" and "Scale (keep proportions)". The layout "Scale [not well]" could even be dropped, imho.
Prefs/Palette:
- Not really a bug, but compared to OS3.x this is missing a color chooser control.
IconEdit:
- This seems to be outdated, it's not possible to create or edit OS4 icons, only OS3.9 icons (and older) are supported. A very good replacement (or addition for backward compatibilitys sake) might be this: http://os4depot.net/index.php?function= ... editor.lha
- When using a 16:9 resolution, the color chooser is not drawn as a proper circle.
DepthToFront:
- When using Styles in the GUI preferences, the sensitive area to open the dropdown menu does not fit with the style used. What I mean is this: The menu should appear right clicking the depth gadget. Now, when using a style (such as "Curvy"), clicking on the right half of the gadget shows the menu, clicking on left half doesn't.
AsyncWB:
Having the history enabled (= disabling the NOHISTORY tooltype), a history file is being written: ENVARC:Sys/AsyncWB.history
Filesize is 5130 bytes. It does contain the history (3 entries in my case) but fills its size up with... well, probably just anything that was in the memory, is my guess... Here's an example:
screenmode
pointer
notepad
***END***
>
<!DOCTYPE pobjects PUBLIC "-//Amiga Inc.//DTD POBJECTS 1.0//EN" "http://www.amiga.com/DTDs/PrefsObjects-1.0.dtd">
<pobjects version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LastUsedApplications</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>openDate</key>
<date>2010-04-30, 16:10:16</date>
<key>appIdentifier</key>
<string>RINGHIO.soft3dev.net</string>
<key>appName</key>
<string>RINGHIO</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>openDate</key>
<date>2010-04-16, 15:18:55</date>
<key>appIdentifier</key>
<string>DvPlayer</string>
<key>appName</key>
<string>DvPlayer</string>
</dict>
(...)
Ideas for improvements:
- USB 2, of course (as stated a lot already)
- GUI: A test-button would be great.
- Improvement of the Shell: Should just work like KingCON, because there's not a lot to improve anymore when having that one installed (but I think there's no OS4 native version, unfortunately).
- It would be great to have the possibility to show window contents as previews (thumbnails of images, etc.)
- Currently, it seems that buttons in requesters cannot be chosen by keyboard, only by mouse. It would be nice to be able to 'jump' from one button to the next using tab key (like in ReqAttack).
@any Betatesters: It would be great if you could counter-test these issues and post them as bugs to be addressed... (I'm sure, some of them probably are already posted, aren't they?)
@all OS4 developers: Great work, guys, keep the updates rolling...!
While using OS 4.1 Update 2 on my Sam440Flex (800 Mhz, 1 GB Ram, Radeon 9250 128 MB), I stumbled over some smaller issues and each time wrote them down. So here's my little collection of smaller bugs and other issues, that I would appreciate a lot, if addressed. I try to be as specific as possible in showing the steps to reproce, but if anything's unclear, just tell me and I'll upload a screenshot or another to clearify...
WB-Windows:
- After dragging the slider, the size of the slider is not being recalculated. It then indicates to have some content even if there isn't. The recalculation only happens when resizing the window or pressing a slider-arrow.
Prefs/Locale:
- Country: Thai-Fonts seem not to be present (shows squares in column "Local name") --> this means the default font doesn't include thai characters. It would be nice to have a default font that does.
Prefs/Pointer:
- When using a 16:9 resolution, the color chooser is not drawn as a proper circle.
- The new default 32bit mouse pointers are very nice, but it's very confusing, that this (meaning: the existence of def_pointer.info in ENVARC:Sys/) overrides the settings of the Pointer prefs. 'Pointer' should be updated to be able to handle / edit the new 32bit pointers.
Prefs/WBPattern:
- using the layout "Scale" or "Scale well" in OS3.9, an image would always keep its proportions. Now the image is streched to fit the screen. It would be best to have both options: "Scale (fit screen)" and "Scale (keep proportions)". The layout "Scale [not well]" could even be dropped, imho.
Prefs/Palette:
- Not really a bug, but compared to OS3.x this is missing a color chooser control.
IconEdit:
- This seems to be outdated, it's not possible to create or edit OS4 icons, only OS3.9 icons (and older) are supported. A very good replacement (or addition for backward compatibilitys sake) might be this: http://os4depot.net/index.php?function= ... editor.lha
- When using a 16:9 resolution, the color chooser is not drawn as a proper circle.
DepthToFront:
- When using Styles in the GUI preferences, the sensitive area to open the dropdown menu does not fit with the style used. What I mean is this: The menu should appear right clicking the depth gadget. Now, when using a style (such as "Curvy"), clicking on the right half of the gadget shows the menu, clicking on left half doesn't.
AsyncWB:
Having the history enabled (= disabling the NOHISTORY tooltype), a history file is being written: ENVARC:Sys/AsyncWB.history
Filesize is 5130 bytes. It does contain the history (3 entries in my case) but fills its size up with... well, probably just anything that was in the memory, is my guess... Here's an example:
screenmode
pointer
notepad
***END***
>
<!DOCTYPE pobjects PUBLIC "-//Amiga Inc.//DTD POBJECTS 1.0//EN" "http://www.amiga.com/DTDs/PrefsObjects-1.0.dtd">
<pobjects version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LastUsedApplications</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>openDate</key>
<date>2010-04-30, 16:10:16</date>
<key>appIdentifier</key>
<string>RINGHIO.soft3dev.net</string>
<key>appName</key>
<string>RINGHIO</string>
</dict>
<dict>
<key>openDate</key>
<date>2010-04-16, 15:18:55</date>
<key>appIdentifier</key>
<string>DvPlayer</string>
<key>appName</key>
<string>DvPlayer</string>
</dict>
(...)
Ideas for improvements:
- USB 2, of course (as stated a lot already)
- GUI: A test-button would be great.
- Improvement of the Shell: Should just work like KingCON, because there's not a lot to improve anymore when having that one installed (but I think there's no OS4 native version, unfortunately).
- It would be great to have the possibility to show window contents as previews (thumbnails of images, etc.)
- Currently, it seems that buttons in requesters cannot be chosen by keyboard, only by mouse. It would be nice to be able to 'jump' from one button to the next using tab key (like in ReqAttack).
@any Betatesters: It would be great if you could counter-test these issues and post them as bugs to be addressed... (I'm sure, some of them probably are already posted, aren't they?)
@all OS4 developers: Great work, guys, keep the updates rolling...!