Re: [artworks] Some bugs in ArtWorks
- From: DitUnDat@xxxxxxxxx
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:31:54 +0200
In message <2212113e4e.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message of 28 Jun, "Gillian Seed" <mrseed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > Try the next thing in Artworks:
> >
> > Open Main menu. Go with to File>Export. Open Draw or Artworks EPS save
> > box. Go back with pointer to main menu (keep menus open) and try to
> > open the submenu Objects, Lines/shapes, View or Utilities. I then get
> > the error: parent item index outside parent menu.
> >
> > Another thing only with Risc OS Adjust (4.39):
> > When running Artworks, go back to a 16 colour (4 bits) mode or less
> > and select the textline tool. Try to type in a text. I get that all
> > characters are place upon each other. When I use a textarea I can't
> > type any chars at all. Under RISC OS 4.02 everything works fine.
> >
> > Then some other undocumented feature when using Artworks in a 16
> > colour (16 grey levels works fine) mode. When you activate the
> > transparency all colour in the document are not displayed correctly.
> > Exporting to 16 colours with transparency works just fine.
> >
> > All test were done with Virtual RPC.
>
> None of these problems with an Iyonix; though you can't do less than 256
> colours on an Iyo.
Perhaps RISC OS 4.39 is not fully RISC OS compliant ;-)
On the other hand the two latter issues are probably something barely
noticable to anybody ... using a 16 colour mode when using something
like ArtWorks is probably something nobody expected anymore...
--
Herbert
Herbert zur Nedden
German Archimedes Group http://www.gag.de
Herausgeber DER deutschen RISC OS-Zeitschrift.
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