Hi,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Jesse Rusak <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been keeping a list of bugs I've run into in and around factor.
> I'm in the new_ui branch from a couple days ago. Here's a dump of my
> current list with some explanation:
>
> - http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20IRC%20channel -
> the link to the IRC logs is broken, and it appears this is because the
> wiki is too aggressive in escaping URLs (ie. it escapes the ?
> character, which in this case should be literal.)

Yes, this is a long-standing bug in Furnace that I'll fix soon.

> - The second paragraph of the "Stream Protocol" article says "use"
> when it should say "using"

Thanks, fixed.

> - The listener reacts oddly to multiple errors. In particular:
>        * Start a new listener, press return until you've moved past the
> first screen-full
>        * Type at least 2 words that aren't in your USE:, but are in the
> search path, like [ number>string ] [undo]
>        * The popup will ask you about adding the vocab to your path. Press
> return to allow it.
>        * The listener will scroll up to the top of the window (bug one) and
> be in a strange state - you'll have to press return again to get the
> second error (bug two)

Yup, I know about this one -- I'll fix it soon.

> - with-locked-model doesn't restore the unlocked state on error, so if
> a model-changed callback throws an error, the model stays locked
> (which is annoying when doing interactive work)

This is already fixed.

> That's the end of my useful bug reports. I've also been seeing
> occasional glitches with the listener needing restarting and selection
> highlights jumping around while scrolling, but I can't reproduce them.

Let me know if you do. Note that output selection isn't implemented in
new_ui yet (the code is there but it doesn't work right).

> Overall, I'm really impressed with how I can make useful things with
> factor's UI framework - I've been enjoying making several gadgets
> which all listen to the same model and stay in sync. I also made a new
> version of <filter> which uses the inverse vocab to provide bi-
> directional editing of a model. (I will hopefully contribute some of
> this once it's ready.)

Sounds great. Thanks for giving new_ui a shot! Now that the Pango text
backend is almost done its very close to being merged.

Slava

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