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benelek
 
 
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menu system bugs
« on: Jan 27th, 2003, 12:44pm » |
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new menu system bugs (win2k).
1. when u've got a menu open, move a cursor over the text area, and back over the menu, the text-area cursor type remains.
2. the "history" and "serial port" sub-menu's don't seem to be opening.
-jacob
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fry
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Re: menu system bugs
« Reply #1 on: Jan 27th, 2003, 4:00pm » |
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re #1.. noted, and now on the todo list.
re #2.. are you sure that the thing you're looking at actually has any history that should be showing up?
similarly for the serial, if you're using the 'expert' version, but haven't installed the serial support, then you won't get anything in the serial port menu. but, as an expert who downloaded the expert version, you'd know that, so that wouldn't be the problem, right? 
thanks for the prompt info & let us know what's going on..
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| « Last Edit: Jan 27th, 2003, 4:00pm by fry » |
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benelek
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Re: menu system bugs
« Reply #2 on: Jan 28th, 2003, 5:31am » |
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on Jan 27th, 2003, 4:00pm, fry wrote:| but, as an expert who downloaded the expert version, you'd know that, so that wouldn't be the problem, right |
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lol. yeah, that's probably it ;P
the history's working fine now, but i could swear i had history and it wasn't showing up last night.
-jacob
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benelek
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Re: menu system bugs
« Reply #3 on: Jan 28th, 2003, 5:48am » |
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i realized what the history thing was about. when u start a new sketch, and ahve neither saved nor run the sketch yet, there appears to be no history.
my guess is is that this is because the history is stored in a file in the sketch folder, which is not created until either the sketch is saved or a temporary folder is created to house the sketch (upon running the sketch).
this would seem to be a bug that's unlikely to cause any damage, assuming the programmer tests his sketch from the beginning of writing it..
but on the other hand, if someone copies some code into a new file and does some significant editing before testing, a problem is caused in the following cases:
1. the programmer makes a mistake and wants to undo something;
2. p5 crashes and the file cannot be automatically reloaded when p5 loads next time.
-jacob
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fry
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Re: menu system bugs
« Reply #4 on: Jan 30th, 2003, 3:46am » |
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interesting point. we had always envisioned history to be a sort of lightweight version control of your sketch.. that you could check back with the one you made a day or a week ago.
the model you describe is perhaps more like the photoshop history (or is it actions? i dunno) where it's a global thing keeping track of anything you do in the environment. i suppose our menu placement helps reinforce this assumption as to its behavior.
anyone else have thoughts on this? how are people using history? for me, it doesn't seem to be quite there yet, but i'm trying to figure out how to improve it.
i think it's an essential part of the "sketchbook" idea, and i want it to eventually be a replacement for the type of self-versioning one often does when saving other projects--i.e. fancything.psd, fancything01.psd, fancything02.psd--and to have it work in the background, as a more intuitive thing.
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