This thread is continued from:
http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/p/19344/100072.aspx#100072
... but is intended to be PP specific. It's a list for Corel bug fixers... one place for them to easily find many bugs... big or small, crash/freezing or just wrong GUI stuff. This is not intended to be a wants list, but obviously sometimes there's overlap... one person's wish is another person's GUI bug. This thread will probably be boring reading for most of us, but hopefully this will efficiently help the bug-finding and bug-fixing process. Hopefully you can be as specific as possible about the circumstances of what you were doing when the problem occured, but I know from personal experience that some of the crash/freeze problems just happen or are around all the time.
I'll start it off with a few itty bitty new ones.
- Make the popup text the same for icons as they're called in the customization/commands dialog
-eg. "Fit in Window" is a zoom command, and it's popup text says "Zoom to fit" - which imho is a good name... fit to window should be changed
-eg. "Initiate cutout tool" is not the cutout tool being started... it's the "cutout lab"
- The zoom 25% command is using the zoom 33 icon.
- when you hold L on a pallete colour to bring up the super cool hue popup colour picker box (which is great), don't force the user to pick a colour with Left-mouse (for foreground in PP) if you accidentally drag the mouse (with L button still down) into the popup... if the user goes out of the popup with L held down, let them release without a choice being registered, and keep the popup open so the user can use L or R to pick.
- this colour picker kinda-bug (sorta) is also a wish/bug for Draw (for fill and outline instead), but I've been told that it's better to separate the threads for better communication.
Here's to a better PP and Graphics Suite X5.
Jeff Harrison said: Hi B, Imagine going through life with a little robot on your shoulder second guessing every thing you do, not allowing you to proceed until you press a yes or no button on it... LOL
Hi B,
Imagine going through life with a little robot on your shoulder second guessing every thing you do, not allowing you to proceed until you press a yes or no button on it... LOL
Ah, I see, so you need the forthcoming BDPredictiveClose macro? LOL
Jeff Harrison said:Out of nervous habit I press CTRL+S every few minutes on important work.
I have this exact same habit. It came from years ago trying to draw a lamborghini and having the computer freeze after laying down or moving a single point in... wait for it... you guessed it... Corel Draw. I think it was version 3.
PP crash - unhandled exception [2964]
I was resizing a bitmap in a separate layer (layer 1), bitmap size was 1200x900
freeze crash... the disassembly address it took me to was --- 774D8B2E int 3
774D8B2E int 3
working with customizing the workspace... clicked a separator, so it would show up in the Options dialog (where I was customizing icons and commands).... I had just done this one thing... and crash.
I just updated my computer hardware and did a fresh X5 install (and sp1)... and crash. wtf.
This bug is reproducible.
This has happened to me a few times.... when you use the dodge/burn tool... and you change the "Amount" ... sometimes it goes to 0 for amount AND transparency... even if you try again and again to change the value to + or - some amount (using the arrows or just by using the part in between that lets you move the mouse/stylus up/down to dial the value.
If you go over to the "Custom Dodge/Burn" and pick another type of dodge/burn, it seems to work, but the Amount dial should still work.