Thanks Xav!
Yes, when the picture widget's preview picture is shown, it flashes.
This is because the picture is loaded at normal size first, to get the
aspect, and is then (usually) reduced to a smaller size, in the correct
ratio, for display in the preview. Obviously, the normal and very simple
solution to this is to hide the picture while this is taking place, and
only show it again when it is ready. However, when I do this, Rev crashes!
During the development of this project, many examples of this kind have
occurred. The great problem is that a great many things appear to work
normally, but that within a certain context, they don't. For example, it
would be very easy to demonstrate in a test stack that loading and
re-sizing a picture box invisibly before showing it works 100%. The
difficult part is explaining why it doesn't work in my program!
Temporarily, I have left the preview picture visible, until I can find a
workaround that does not cause Rev to crash.
Once the dust has settled during this initial phase, I would like to
raise some of the issues arising from the project with the Rev
community, to see whether bugs ought to be reported or whether
workarounds can be found. Another example: In the test stack I have
provided, there is a shell call to the widget EXEs. I say "shell"
because when I tried the simpler "launch" command with the widget EXEs,
it would work sometimes, but not others. So I tried "launching" another
program in a test stack, and it worked perfectly every time!
Thanks again for your feedback.
To the other Windows XP users, PLEASE test my widgets and let me know
what happens!
Regards,
Bob
MisterX wrote:
Bob
works perfectly here - the exes...
well, almost... some flashing updates here or there...
both the exes works like a charm...
winxp... 1gb ram, 3GHz... rev 261
cheers
Xav
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Bob Warren
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January, 2006 17:37
To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP
Dear Windows XP Users (and others),
This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and
picture chooser widgets available for download at
http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev .
On my machines, these widgets work perfectly. However, for
some reason yet to be discovered, they do not work on Ken
Ray's machine. In order to help with the diagnosis, I have
released a copy of the file chooser stack to him.
In the meantime, I suggest that the widgets as they stand
should be used for testing purposes, but not for distribution
in any way. I need to discover whether the difficulty on
Ken's machine is an isolated incident or whether it
represents the tip of an iceberg.
So far, Ken has been extremely helpful. But what I need at
this moment is for other Windows XP users to test the widgets
and to tell me how they behave on their machines and their
particular flavour of Windows XP.
The sooner I get this issue solved, the sooner I can get to
work on the Linux versions and arrange for a conversion to
MAC. RR sadly lacks a picture chooser with preview, so
whatever you can do to help would be of potential benefit to all.
Thanks guys.
Regards,
Bob
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