Problems with text (paragraph editor?) in 7.5nc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Franchi [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 4. toukokuuta 2007 5:26
> To: 'vwnc'
> Cc: Stefano Franchi
> Subject: Problems with text (paragraph editor?) in 7.5nc
>
>
> I did not see any report on this problem on the list, but in my setup
> 7.5nc is pretty much unusable,  because selecting a portion of text
> mangles up the characters and renders the text unreadable.
> Has anyone else seen this? I am on a Mac Powerbook G4, running MacOs
> 10.3.9. I am using the Mac VM. I appended a small example of the
> mangled text below. It appears the editor redraws the selected text
> with the wrong spacing.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>

> There also seems to be a problem in double-buffering with Pixmaps,
> whereby the Pixmap displays correctly but also obscures a wide border
> of
> the surrounding widgets with grey. The width of the border increases as
> scaleX and scaleY increase (these are meant to be ignored by the VM for
> ScreenGraphicsContexts, and GF/ST uses them to remember its own
> scaling). The clipping rectangle values in the image look OK, so maybe
> the VM is misinterpreting them. The same problem, albeit not quite as
> bad, has been seen with the Linux VMs as long as I remember, and also
> with the Mac X11 7.4d VMs.
>

> There also seems to be a problem in double-buffering with Pixmaps,
> whereby the Pixmap displays correctly but also obscures a wide border
> of
> the surrounding widgets with grey. The width of the border increases as
> scaleX and scaleY increase (these are meant to be ignored by the VM for
> ScreenGraphicsContexts, and GF/ST uses them to remember its own
> scaling). The clipping rectangle values in the image look OK, so maybe
> the VM is misinterpreting them. The same problem, albeit not quite as
> bad, has been seen with the Linux VMs as long as I remember, and also
> with the Mac X11 7.4d VMs.
>

> Hi,
> I wanted to give a try to SimberonReport, so I loaded the bundle from the
> public store on a VW7.5 image on Windows XP.
>
> The method Reports.ReportViewer>>updateReport send the message reduceBy: to
> a page (a Depth32Image).
>
> On my image there are no implementers for te reduceBy: method. Am I missing
> some prerequisite?
>
> Thanks
>
> Giorgio Ferraris
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Franchi [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 5. toukokuuta 2007 7:54
> To: Steven Kelly
> Cc: Stefano Franchi; vwnc
> Subject: Re: Problems with text (paragraph editor?) in 7.5nc
>
>
>
> On 4 May, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Steven Kelly wrote:
>
> > Yes, we see the same kind of problems on a PPC eMac using the native
> > VM.
> > The 7.4d native VM and 7.4d X11 VM didn't have this
> problem. For us, it
> > looks like the width of the characters calculated by VW is
> less than is
> > actually drawn, so the selection highlight doesn't reach
> the end of the
> > text.
> >
>
>
> Ah, I am glad to hear I am not the only one, at least. My
> problem seems
> to be exactly the same. Additionally, deselecting the text often (but
> not always) leaves both sets of characters on the screen, effectively
> making it unreadable.
>
> A possibly related problem I am encountering concerns the wrapping of
> lines: VW seems to think the pane is actually much wider than it
> actually is, and wraps the line off screen (off-pane, I should say).
> > There also seems to be a problem in double-buffering with Pixmaps,
> > whereby the Pixmap displays correctly but also obscures a
> wide border
> > of
> > the surrounding widgets with grey. The width of the border
> increases as
> > scaleX and scaleY increase (these are meant to be ignored
> by the VM for
> > ScreenGraphicsContexts, and GF/ST uses them to remember its own
> > scaling). The clipping rectangle values in the image look
> OK, so maybe
> > the VM is misinterpreting them. The same problem, albeit
> not quite as
> > bad, has been seen with the Linux VMs as long as I
> remember, and also
> > with the Mac X11 7.4d VMs.
> >
>
> I have not noticed this problem
>
> > On the plus side, the scrollbar graphic glitches are gone,
> and so are
> > some problems in drawing through Masks.
>
> Yes, scrollbars function all right, now
>
> > Still, for us the best solution
> > looks to be the Mac X11 VM, even with the extra hassle for
> our users.
> > We're really looking forward to the first version of the native VMs
> > that
> > will beat the X11 VMs in quality and performance!
> >
>
> I have switched to the X11 VM as well, although keeping two windowing
> environments running puts serious constraints on my RAM.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Stefano
>
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