[Pythoncard-users] PythonCard 0.8 issues (was Re: #pythoncard irc channel on freenode)

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:07:08 +0100, Alex Tweedly wrote:

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>I'd suggest posting them to this list. IRC can be a good place to discuss 
>them if needed, but it's worth having them described on the mailing list so 
>that everyone can see them even if they don't happen to be on irc at the 
>right time.
>

OK, here are a few minor things I've discovered running 0.8 following my
upgrade to the latest versions of everything on Friday. Let's see if
anybody else can replicate these or agree/disagree. I think I've checked
all the to-do and known bug lists, but if not please don't shout - I'm a
newbie!

Unless I say otherwise, assume this applies to the OS X and Win32 versions...

1) Documentation - the on-line stuff is duplicated in the PythonCard/
docs/html directory, but if I try to click on a link to any of the
component descriptions they're not there. The components directory is
missing. Not a huge problem when I have ADSL, but the one time I was
network-less I tried using the docs and discovered this.

2) Typo - in the resource editor when you duplicate a component the
offset widgets are spelt wrong - "Offest Horizontally", etc. :-)

3) Image path - this follows on from an observation I made recently. When
you select an image in the background dialog you can use the file browser
to track it down, but in the resource file the path is never stored and
therefore the image fails to load unless it's in the same directory as
the resource file.

Now why you'd want to locate the image somewhere other than the current
directory I couldn't say...

4) Colour...oops...Color picker - could this open with the property's
current value? At the moment it always starts with black. Just makes it
easier to make a minor color shift and makes the OS X color picker look
better when it opens.

Nothing earth-shattering, I admit, but a start.

Neil