Re: AlphaX 8.2b15 development release

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi Mark,

thanks for the feedback.
I'm answering your remarks below.


Le 26 oct. 09 à 03:39, Mark Nagata a écrit :

>
>
> On 2009/10/25, at 17:34, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>
>> I have just uploaded a new development release of AlphaX. This is
>> version 8.2b15.
>>
>
> Hi Bernard,
> Thank you for the AlphaX 8.2b15 release.
>
> I noticed two strangeness.
>
> (1)  If I open the attached document "AlphaX_8_2b_history"
> with AlphaX 8.2b15, then the marks menu
> (the one that pops up if I click the "clip" icon near the top-right  
> corner
> of the window) lists many marks:
>
>  1. Features
>     8.2b1
>     8.2b2
>  (etc.)
>
> If I select the "1. Features" item (from the menu, using the mouse)
> then the point jumps to position 157 (top of line 10).
>
> If I select the "2. Bug fixes" item,
> then the point jumps to position 20736 (top of line 657),
> which is correct.
>
> However, if I select anything else, like the "8.2b1" or the "8.2b15"
> item, then, the point always jumps to the bottom of the document
> (position 38573, line 1270).
>
> So, all marks except the two items "1. Features" and "2. Bug fixes"
> are broken.
>
> The situation is similar for the "AlphaX_8_2a_history" document.
>

I did something wrong with the marks generation and the TOC of this  
document yesterday. Rather than rebuilding the document I decided, out  
of some kind of shameful lazyness, to remove all the hyperlinks. But  
apparently this did not remove the Marks stored in an MPSR resource.
Sorry about this: I'll regenerate the notes.


>
> (2)  You wrote:
>
>> * implemented type-select in the new [listpick] dialogs
>> * improved interface for the "Choose A Window..." command.
>
> The dialog that appears from the "Choose A Window..." command:
> is it "the new [listpick] dialog"?
>

Yes it is.

> I press command-0 and the "Choose A Window..." dialog appears,
> listing 2 items:  "AlphaX_8_2b_history" and "ReleaseNotes_8.2b15"
> then, if I press the "A" key or the "R" key, nothing happens!
>
> Oh !!!  I now know what's going on!
> The solution:  press shift-A or shift-R.

Yes this has to be capital-A and capital-R.

I have been hesitating a lot about this: make this quick-search case  
sensitive or not. If it is standard behavior to make it case- 
insensitive, I'll fix this.

>
> Another strangeness.  If I press the Enter key on the [listpick]  
> dialog,
> then again, nothing happens.
> If I press the Return key, then the [listpick] dialog goes away.
>
> Again, wasn't it standard to bind _both_ of Return and Enter keys
> to the "OK" button of dialogs?

You're right. I forgot about the Enter key which is missing on my  
laptop. I'll fix this.



>
> File-comparison via DiffBOA seems to work fine now,
> although the interface problem on the setting of the Helper  
> application
> (that is, the paths ".../DiffBOA" and ".../DiffBOA.app" are doubly  
> shown on
> the pop-up menu) remains (which is an extremely minor, cosmetic  
> problem.)

I had forgotten about this issue. I'll try to fix it.


cheers,
Bernard