Questions about the new Application Builder (was RE: Revolution 2.2 Release Candidate - Color problems)

[Graham Samuel]

Monte, I'd like to continue the conversation about my color probs and ask a 
couple of other questions that might be of general interest.

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:45:36 +1030, "Monte Goulding" 
<monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:


> > Before I dive into Bugzilla, has anyone any idea why the colours (or
> > colors, for that matter) in my standalone would behave
> > differently from the
> > way they do under the IDE? Basically in the standalone I start off with a
> > graphic with a certain colour and pattern that already looks
> > different from
> > the way it did under the IDE, and when I move a group over it by script,
> > the graphic looks different afterwards (which it never does in the IDE).
> > Very odd it seems to me, but is this a known thing? If not, I will try to
> > isolate it. This is a Dell laptop running with 32 bit colour
> > depth. I have
> > yet to try it on a Mac.
>
>Hmmm... It sounds more like a graphics driver issue than a standalone issue.
>Your not building on one platform and only looking at the standalone on this
>Dell laptop are you? Is it a completely different color or a slight
>variation.

Well, it looks pretty different to me, but the real issue is that it's rock 
solid in the IDE and different in the standalone (different pattern and - I 
think - colour, and different behaviour when a group is dragged across a 
patterned area), all in the same machine and environment. So it must 
somehow be to do with the AB. Maybe some pattern that's in the IDE isn't 
included, but there are no options for doing that. Can you suggest any 
other approach? I'm about to try the whole thing on OSX (Jaguar).

Two other questions/issues from early use:

1. I think the way of saving the Application Builder settings is a bit 
counterintuitive: they're now stored in the mainstack representing the app 
which is to be built, aren't they? But the 'Save' menu item is greyed out 
when the AB window is at the front, so one ends up pushing the window out 
of the way, getting some apparently unrelated window to the front (in my 
case, a splash screen) and then saving. Seems strange.

2. In Windows XP, if another app comes to the front and hides the AB 
settings, the AB window isn't shown in the dock-like bar at the bottom of 
the screen, so it's not easy to get back to the settings window without 
minimizing stuff to find it on the screen. Is this expected behaviour?

TIA

Graham

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