Built-in patterns - Bug added to QC Center

[Devin Asay]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Devin Asay wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>> I've got a graphic with its foregroundpattern set to 9, one of  
>>> the built-in patterns in the IDE. I always thought these were  
>>> part of the engine. But when I build a standalone, there's problems.
>>>
>>> On OS X, the graphic draws pure white. On Windows, it crashes the  
>>> whole app the moment I make the graphic visible.
>>>
>>> It looks like the patterns are not being included in the  
>>> standalone. Anyone have experience with this? Am I going to have  
>>> to hunt down the pattern and include a copy in my stack? The  
>>> standalone builder doesn't have an option to copy them over, and  
>>> to be honest, I always thought that was unnecessary.
>> Jacque,
>> I could swear that an earlier version of the Standalone Builder  
>> allowed you to include the standard image and pattern libraries. I  
>> posed a question about this a few months ago, but didn't get any  
>> response. I think it's needed, because if you use images or  
>> patterns from the "standard" or even *shudder* Metcard  
>> libraries ;-) they disappear in the standalone.
>> If this isn't done already, I'll submit a feature enhancement to  
>> QCzilla. Anybody know anything about this?
>
> I didn't see anything in bugzilla about it, but if you do submit  
> I'd suggest doing it as a bug rather than as an enhancement  
> request. Just the fact that missing patterns crash Windows is  
> enough to qualify it as a bug, but even if that didn't happen, it  
> is something people expect as part of the standalone building  
> process. If patterns aren't included automatically, there should at  
> least be an option to include them in the SB just as you can  
> include cursors now.

Added. BZ #4299. Vote early and often.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University