From: David A. Scocca (scocca@email.unc.edu)
Date: 10 Mar 01, 13:12 EST
From: "David A. Scocca" <scocca@email.unc.edu> Subject: A few issues... Hello! This is my first post to this list; I signed up after shifting to Alpha V7.4. I've got a few issues which I've noticed: (1) A number of dialogs appear to be cut off at the bottom of the screen--many of the preference dialogs, for example (e.g. Config... Preferences... Appearance...) I'm running 9.0.4, with a resolution of 1024x768, and with a default large system font of either Chicago or Charcoal. The cut-off is high enough that I don't even see the buttons at the bottom of the dialog, and I have to use the esc key to cancel it since I don't have the cancel button. The text is also clipped at the right hand side, though that's not as severe as at the bottom. (Switching to Techno squeezes it enough that the right-side clipping is gone.) Also, the check boxes and the associated text are partly clipped at the top by the explanatory text that's right above them. (2) A problem I've had for a long time--if you change the screen to a higher resolution while Alpha is running, the status bar stays in the location where it would be for the lower resolution--i.e. in the middle of the screen. (If you change it to a lower resolution, it relocates correctly, but if you then shift back to a higher resolution it incorrectly stays in the lower-resolution location.) In some past versions I've been able to drag it back to the bottom of the screen, but I can't do that now. (3) Text selection via the cursor keys works unlike every other Mac application I've used--when you're holding down shift and moving the cursor to extend a selection, some cursor movements cause your original starting point to move rather than shrinking the selection a bit. (Example: put the cursor after the colon in this sentence, hold shift, and press up twice and right three times. In a normal application, the selection will begin with the "t" in "selection" and end with the colon; in Alpha, the selection will begin with the space after "to" and end with the "p" in "put". I was trying to look at the preferences to see if there was some way to change this behavior when I ran into item (1) above. (4) In a configuration dialog, choosing "Descriptions" brings up a dialog which will tell you the version number and source of just about anything--logically, a button by that name should provide some help/description of what the items in the dialog means. I suspect that this button needs to be renamed. (5) Undo needs to be smarter about (a) preserving selection and (b) knowing exactly what level of command the user issued. If I select a block of text and choose "paste", it should _not_ require two "undo" operations to get that text back. (Now it does--one "undo" removes the added text, and a second "undo" retrieves the deleted text.) And--after the second "undo", the restored text should be selected but is not. All these issues have been verified in Alpha 7.4.1, though many of them have been around for a long long time. Dave Scocca * Dave Scocca SAS for the Macintosh Resource Page * * dave_scocca@unc.edu http://metalab.unc.edu/sasmac/ * _______________________________________________ AlphaTcl-developers mailing list AlphaTcl-developers@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers