AmigaOS 4.1 FE on SAM 460CR
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Multiview: 53.8
datatypes.library: 53.4
text.datatype: 53.8
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I think there is a bug (unterminated string) in the "Find ... " command where it adds trailing garbage characters to subsequent searches (i.e. find, then find again). I encountered the bug when searching the autodocs so I was using the text datatype. The bug may not be restricted to that situation but I almost always see it when doing that.
Replication Steps
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1) Open a text file with MultiView.
2) Press <RAmiga>-F to find.
3) Enter text to search for.
4) Press <Return> to execute search.
5) Press <RAmiga>-F to find again.
6) You will probably see the garbage at the tail end of the text. If you don't see the garbage, just repeat step 4 & 5 again until you do.
Cheers,
Jason.
Bug in Multiview Search requester
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Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Reproduced this just once after a great deal of repeating.
The requester comes from text.datatype, not multiview itself so I'll check for and raise a bug report against text.datatype
The requester comes from text.datatype, not multiview itself so I'll check for and raise a bug report against text.datatype
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Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
reported as bug 9302
Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Thanks. I knew it was one of those things that show up at random, but I got it more often than not. Thanks for confirming and raising.broadblues wrote:reported as bug 9302
Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Since you would normally use <RAmiga>-N (find next) after the first search, most people would never see this bug. It's always a good idea to fix things that aren't working right though.Steady wrote:Thanks. I knew it was one of those things that show up at random, but I got it more often than not. Thanks for confirming and raising.broadblues wrote:reported as bug 9302
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Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
I always hit enter twice to do a find next in Multiview. Never realised there was a shortcut for it! Consequently I've seen this bug for years but managed to never report it.xenic wrote:Since you would normally use <RAmiga>-N (find next) after the first search, most people would never see this bug. It's always a good idea to fix things that aren't working right though.Steady wrote:Thanks. I knew it was one of those things that show up at random, but I got it more often than not. Thanks for confirming and raising.broadblues wrote:reported as bug 9302
Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Funny that RAmiga-N has been a reserved shortcut for "New" since foreverSince you would normally use <RAmiga>-N (find next) after the first search
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SAM440ep-flex @ 667MHz / 1GB RAM / Radeon 9250 / AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition
Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Actually, I just saw a similar problem in an ASL requester (well, I assume it was ASL) last night and forgot where it was. It might be a problem in some very common code. When I remember/repeat it I will post where it was.
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Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
@Steady
Yes this has been marked as a duplicate of another more general bug, previously thought fixed that seems to have reooccurred (possibly with different cause) in FE.
Yes this has been marked as a duplicate of another more general bug, previously thought fixed that seems to have reooccurred (possibly with different cause) in FE.
Re: Bug in Multiview Search requester
Unless one could afford to buy the Amiga ROM Kernal Manuals, most programmers probably never saw the "Style Guide" and just used keyboard shortcuts that made sense to them. Apparently, the devs have done the same. For example:trixie wrote:Funny that RAmiga-N has been a reserved shortcut for "New" since foreverSince you would normally use <RAmiga>-N (find next) after the first search
RAmiga-N is used in the Workbench/Window menu for "New drawer" instead of Style Guide "Project/New".
RAmiga-P is used in the Workbench/Icon menu for "Put away" instead of Style Guide "Project/Print".
RAmiga-S is used in the Workbench/Icon menu for "Snapshot" instead of Style Guide "Project/Save As...".
RAmiga-S is used in the GUI prefs Settings menu for "Use Seperate Screen" instead of Style Guide "Project/Save As...".
RAmiga-A is used in console/shell Project menu for "Save history" instead of Style Guide "Project/Save As...".
I could probably spend at least a week listing inconsistancies between the Style Guide and the OS. The bottom line is that "Do as I say not as I do" doesn't work and changing Multiview or any OS menu shortcut will just cause confusion at this point.
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