Revolution 2.8.1: a 240+ bug fixes/improvements! What about the remaining 1879?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri May 18 20:13:11 EDT 2007


Luis wrote:

 > On 19 May 2007, at 0:13, Mark Talluto wrote:
 >
 >> RevZilla by Ken Ray does pretty much that.  Have you given it a
 >> try?  It runs right in Rev.
 >
 > Had a look at it, but still doesn't offer that many options to drill
 > down the issue: I'm trying to avoid the bug reporter from having to
 > type 'too much'.
 >
 > For example for a graphics app (these would be spread across as well
 > as down the page!):
 >
 > * = Selected
 >
 > Options/Pull downs
 >
 > Your system
 > - OS 9
 > - OS X*
 > - W98
 > - W2K
 > - WXP
 >
 > Select product
 > - PictureMe*
 > - PrintMe
 >
 > Select version
 > - v1
 > - v2
 > - v3*
 >
 > Problem on Startup or Quit?
 > - Yes
 > - No*
 >
 > Problem with Menu?
 > - Yes
 > - No*
 >
 > Problem with Tools?
 > - Yes*
 > - No
 >
 > Etc, etc. I'd get them tailored to fit the page plus space for the
 > comment (only writeable if the bug reporter has pulled down at least
 > 60% of the options to cater for non-obvious issues not included in
 > the pull downs).
 > Pull downs are little effort, so if someone has bothered to at least
 > report the bug, it shouldn't be too hard.
 > There are plenty of options in RRQC and RevZilla, but I'd rather use
 > up all that screen space to ask as many questions as possible (ie:
 > via the pull downs) to narrow down the issue.

Revzilla's written in Rev, so you could make your UI as a wizard for it. 
  I'm sure Ken would be willing to add it to his web page as a Revzilla 
add-on.

Let us know when you have it done.  Sounds cool.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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