From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sat Aug 30 2003 - 10:23:29 EDT
> Hello all,
> Do any of you experience these issues or is it just me?
>
Hi Kenneth,
I just tested my CVS gnome build again and it works great.
Do have access to a win nightly build? Can you see if you see the same bugs?
Cheers
Martin
> I went to update the build.zabw doc (why is this a binary file?
> instead of a simple .abw) and well, using Abi really sucked.
>
> I did find the zoom level effects the results some. Originally
> I used Page Width, but found 100% seemed less buggy.
> What I see:
> - the cursor, well it is sometimes after the letter to type and
> sometimes before (even several characters before), so don't even
> try to type and look at the screen to see where you are.
> - the letters, especially if you are switching between fonts
> (times vs courier), get overwritten, i.e. characters typed later
> overwrite or hide the characters before them (something like the
> picture shown in bug 5504)
> - highlighting is now a game, usually you have to start a few
> characters before the one you want to get a full word, and just
> watch the layout change (lines shrink & grow and the missing letters
> from previous point show & hide as the highlighted section changes) -
> perhaps related to some plugins, as I haven't yet tracked down
> the cause given its somewhat intermittent, AbiWord segfaults on exit. -
> unchanged document failed to load (my saved changes did not want to open
> initially, oddly I retried and my 2nd retry it opened fine), this may be
> related to the previous crash on close, so the file may just not have
> been able to open until the process completely died?
>
> All in all, I would like to know if any other dev/users see similar
> problems or if this is just something screwy with my build(s)?
> [I'm presently looking through bugzilla for similar bugs.]
> Unless these are all just some simple bugs or otherwise related
> to my building, I don't see the Windows build being ready for a
> 2.0 release (at least I wouldn't release it on the public as is).
>
> Please let me know what your results are!
> Thanks,
> Jeremy
>
> [Oh yeah, using current CVS, only changes are in some DEBUGMSGs,
> Windows XP home.]
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