Nicolas wrote:When was the last time you downloaded a nightly build?
Right now, and the bug is still there. Maybe there was more than one bug.
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Active panel gets messed up
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by Nicolas » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:16 am
Hey there,
We've finally got a handle on that bug, and have found a way of reproducing it fairly easily. That was the good news. The bad news is that it looks like it's VM dependant, and as such, fairly hard to correct. As far as we're aware, it only occurs under Java 1.4 and 1.5 on mac os x.
Anyway, you were right, the bug is there, it's just that we don't know quite how to fix it just yet. I'll let you know if we manage to do it.
Cheers,
Nicolas
We've finally got a handle on that bug, and have found a way of reproducing it fairly easily. That was the good news. The bad news is that it looks like it's VM dependant, and as such, fairly hard to correct. As far as we're aware, it only occurs under Java 1.4 and 1.5 on mac os x.
Anyway, you were right, the bug is there, it's just that we don't know quite how to fix it just yet. I'll let you know if we manage to do it.
Cheers,
Nicolas
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by Nicolas » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:19 pm
I *might* have corrected that bug. Could you get tonight's nightly build (should be live shorly after valentine's day - I know, sad, I'm working on muCommander on that night of all nights) and let me know if you still manage to reproduce it?
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by hritcu » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:32 am
Hi Nicholas,
Your change surely had something to do with the bug, still it was not a perfect fix. The active panel gets messed up not so easily now and it even seems that it gets messed up less visibly ... but the problem still happens.
As usual, the way I reproduce it is:
Step 1. Go to the /Library directory
Step 2. Select a directory that is in the upper part of the listing (Colors or Frameworks)
Step 3. Scroll to the bottom of the listing using the wheel or scrollbar (careful not to change the selection)
Step 4. Hit enter ... and voila, it's quite often messed up
Step 5. Start navigating down in the folder to see the listing become good line by line
The bad results are now of three kinds:
1. Most of the times almost imperceptible overlapping that makes the text look bold. This did not happen so often before last night, and it probably it is better than the very visible overlappings happening very often before. Screenshots: Step1&2, Step3, Step4, Step5 (do you see the difference between the last two pictures?). One more example.
2. Some times (but apparently less frequently than before) the usual totally messed up panel, caused by some sort of bad overlapping.
3. Some times the contents are just partially duplicated and perfectly overlapped at first, and it's hard to see until you start navigating, or unless you really know the contents of your directories very well. Still, this is very annoying since a user might just panic over missing files or directories.
Your change surely had something to do with the bug, still it was not a perfect fix. The active panel gets messed up not so easily now and it even seems that it gets messed up less visibly ... but the problem still happens.
As usual, the way I reproduce it is:
Step 1. Go to the /Library directory
Step 2. Select a directory that is in the upper part of the listing (Colors or Frameworks)
Step 3. Scroll to the bottom of the listing using the wheel or scrollbar (careful not to change the selection)
Step 4. Hit enter ... and voila, it's quite often messed up
Step 5. Start navigating down in the folder to see the listing become good line by line
The bad results are now of three kinds:
1. Most of the times almost imperceptible overlapping that makes the text look bold. This did not happen so often before last night, and it probably it is better than the very visible overlappings happening very often before. Screenshots: Step1&2, Step3, Step4, Step5 (do you see the difference between the last two pictures?). One more example.
2. Some times (but apparently less frequently than before) the usual totally messed up panel, caused by some sort of bad overlapping.
3. Some times the contents are just partially duplicated and perfectly overlapped at first, and it's hard to see until you start navigating, or unless you really know the contents of your directories very well. Still, this is very annoying since a user might just panic over missing files or directories.
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