From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 02:56:13 EDT
>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:45:00 +0200 Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> JM> > Sorry but I agree with Dom. 2.0 should go out now. We'll fix
>> more JM> bugs later.
>> JM>
>> ...
>> JM> As the win32 maintainer my opinion is that win32 build is unusable
>> for JM> end-users and my recomendation is not publish a win32 binary
>> until we JM> have this bug fixed.
>> ...
>>
>> I agree with Jordi, the Windows build is Not ready for a 2.0 release;
>> this should not hold up other platforms from a 2.0.0 release as we can
>> make the Windows build available when we have a 2.0.1 release. I.e. do
>> not make a public 2.0.0 Windows build available (except for those who
>> want to test/help debug).
>>
>> For those who don't understand what we are talking about, see
>>
>> http://abiword.pchasm.org/screenshots/abi2-errors/
>>
>> which shows the loading of our build document and the effects of just
>> loading, highlighting, and unhighlighting a chunk at the end of a
>> line. That stated, it has improved quite a bit in the last 2 weeks
>> (thanks Martin & Jordi ...), but not yet to a point that it is ready
>> for the average end user.
>>
With my MING build of cvs 4 days ago. I don't see this at all. I'm running
WinME. Jordi told me about an assert he was getting at around line 508 in
the gr_Win32Graphics class. That assert shows that the characters are
being placed at their zoomed sizes and not at the positions determined by
the charwidths array. The assert can happen and maybe screen drawing bug
can happen if you run a versin of Windows with BiDi support. Which I guess
is Windows 2000 or Win XP.
So to track down the bug see why it takes the path that leads to line 508
in the gr_win32GRaphics class. I can't help at all. I don't even see the
bug.
On another note, it appears that the Win32Graphics class selects the wrong
size font at low zooms. Win developers should look at the code in
gr_Win32Graphics::findFont(....)
to see why the font size is being chosen so badly.
Put in debugmsg and break points in your debugger and see if the zoomed
font size makes sense.
Good Luck!
Martin
Good
>
> Well a solution is to just announce GNOME-office-1.0 with the gnome
> abiword-2.0. We only supply binaries from the download page for
> gnome/gtk.
>
>
> When Win32 is ready we announce "AbiWord-2.0.1 a cross-platform Word
> Processor." and provide binaries for Windows users.
>
> Win32 developers should find and mark those bugs they consider blockers
> for a general release for end-users. When the blocker bugs are fixed
> AbiWord-2.0.1 is announced.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>> Jeremy
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