hair-pulling frustration

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Talluto wrote:

> Thanks for taking this on.  These are stopping us from using 7 either 
> in shipping
> applications and in some cases development:
> 
> Move command renders graphics improperly when screen has been recently 
> locked
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13961
> 
> Player object should be able to transform video content
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13942
> (We are currently relying on Trevor’s excellent QT External for this.  
> Thus, this
> is really an enhancement.)
> 
> Color overlay doesn't seem to be applied to alpha channel correctly
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11520
> 
> (Fixed but not released) Command keys not working correctly
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13847
> 
> This list does not include a serial port communication bug. The general
> issue is that serial communication is very slow.  We rely on serial
> communication for our remote control system to communicate with the 
> vision
> testing software. Just need to find the time to build a recipe stack 
> this one.
> 
> The overall slowness of 7 is also an issue.  Thankfully plenty of 
> benchmarking
> scripts are being created by the wonderful people on this list to show 
> those
> issues. I personally think there should be more life applied to the 6.7 
> cycle.
> This will be important until 7 matures.

Very helpful - thanks for posting that list.  I've added them to my 
notes for my next Community meeting with them.

The fixed item is good to see, but of course it would have been better 
to see it fixed before release.  Do you happen to know offhand if that 
was a late-stage regression?

The enhancement request seems very useful, though of course it'll likely 
play a minimal role in a discussion of show-stoppers.

The other two are interesting, and I look forward to learning the 
challenges behind those.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.org