File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP

[Bob Warren]

Thanks Xav!

Yes, when the picture widget's preview picture is shown, it flashes. 
This is because the picture is loaded at normal size first, to get the 
aspect, and is then (usually) reduced to a smaller size, in the correct 
ratio, for display in the preview. Obviously, the normal and very simple 
solution to this is to hide the picture while this is taking place, and 
only show it again when it is ready. However, when I do this, Rev crashes!

During the development of this project, many examples of this kind have 
occurred. The great problem is that a great many things appear to work 
normally, but that within a certain context, they don't. For example, it 
would be very easy to demonstrate in a test stack that loading and 
re-sizing a picture box invisibly before showing it works 100%. The 
difficult part is explaining why it doesn't work in my program!

Temporarily, I have left the preview picture visible, until I can find a 
workaround that does not cause Rev to crash.

Once the dust has settled during this initial phase, I would like to 
raise some of the issues arising from the project with the Rev 
community, to see whether bugs ought to be reported or whether 
workarounds can be found. Another example: In the test stack I have 
provided, there is a shell call to the widget EXEs. I say "shell" 
because when I tried the simpler "launch" command with the widget EXEs, 
it would work sometimes, but not others. So I tried "launching" another 
program in a test stack, and it worked perfectly every time!

Thanks again for your feedback.
To the other Windows XP users, PLEASE test my widgets and let me know 
what happens!

Regards,
Bob

MisterX wrote:

>Bob
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>works perfectly here - the exes...
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>well, almost... some flashing updates here or there...
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>both the exes works like a charm... 
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>winxp... 1gb ram, 3GHz... rev 261 
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>cheers
>Xav
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
>>[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
>>Bob Warren
>>Sent: Wednesday, 18 January, 2006 17:37
>>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>>Subject: Re: File/Picture Chooser Widgets available for Windows XP
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>>Dear Windows XP Users (and others),
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>>This is a quick status report on the testing of the file and 
>>picture chooser widgets available for download at
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>>http://www.howsoft.com/downloads/runrev .
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>>On my machines, these widgets work perfectly. However, for 
>>some reason yet to be discovered, they do not work on Ken 
>>Ray's machine. In order to help with the diagnosis, I have 
>>released a copy of the file chooser stack to him.
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>>In the meantime, I suggest that the widgets as they stand 
>>should be used for testing purposes, but not for distribution 
>>in any way. I need to discover whether the difficulty on 
>>Ken's machine is an isolated incident or whether it 
>>represents the tip of an iceberg.
>>
>>So far, Ken has been extremely helpful. But what I need at 
>>this moment is for other Windows XP users to test the widgets 
>>and to tell me how they behave on their machines and their 
>>particular flavour of Windows XP.
>>
>>The sooner I get this issue solved, the sooner I can get to 
>>work on the Linux versions and arrange for a conversion to 
>>MAC. RR sadly lacks a picture chooser with preview, so 
>>whatever you can do to help would be of potential benefit to all.
>>
>>Thanks guys.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bob
>>
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