Construction with Soft Beans?


Or something Daliesque like that...

Back in January when I was first playing around with Marten, I discovered an odd little bug that I promptly reported to the guys. You'll remember, I assume, how in CPX if you pulled on a root or terminal it would slide along the edge of its parent op and if you went past the side of the op and released it, the op would resize accordingly. I must have been testing whether this functionality had been reproduced in Marten, and was sorry to discover that it hadn't (image from January 19, 2005):




Well, last night in the office I downloaded the latest upgrade and wondered if, after half a year, they had gotten around to fixing it. Nope:





OK, granted, this isn't a biggey; some people might not even happen onto it, and it doesn't (however disturbing visually) actually interfere with execution. And it might be easy to overlook this sort of thing, initially; I know I did when I was working on the PhoEdit3 app. But once I knew about it, I fixed it rather simply by checking whether the new coords for the node were still within the bounds of the parent op, and if they weren't, the new coords weren't applied.

Not a big thing but one which should be reasonably easy to fix. So why hasn't it been?

Anyway, I'll be copying Marten over onto the PowerBook in the next day or so and plan to give it a good work over this time. Of course, as Andescotia tech support has already announced, there's an incompatibility with Tiger that results in a crash when saving a new project. There's a work-around, which is nice.

In lieu of a fix, I guess.

Posted: Tue - June 14, 2005 at 09:19 PM           |

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