1.3 first impressions and bugs

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Revision as of 01:02, 3 March 2005

Some first impressions and bugs I've collated from the forums, with links to relevant posts.

Top menu isn't liked much. Ideas: Perhaps make icons larger and zoom less on mouseover? Perhaps put a grey translucent curved rectangular box around the descriptions - sometimes over bright imagery it's hard to read the text.

World Wind pauses for long intervals between downloading tiles at times. One has to zoom in and out etc to get it to trigger the downloading again. Perhaps a rendering loop is slowing things down?
Auth. proxy support not yet done. Also see this thread: Forums
It's not strictly a bug, but a converter for 1.2 --> 1.3 Cache is needed at some point in time.
installer needs to check for 700 megs available on the %TEMP% drive

Save Screenshot doesn't change extensions when you choose a different type.
Placefinder doesn't redraw properly when generating index's and in some other places.
remove dependency for windings2,3 (Dumdum, mashi and me discussed this. We can use the individual glyphs in windings to make icons and then use them. The font pictures themselves are public domain, the font itself is not. This font is installed only with MS office, so the layer manager probably looks very silly for anyone without it. User:Llynix)
need to add a "reset default settings" somewhere and maybe need to delete settings from the harddrive on uninstall.

These bugs directly effect what I'm trying to do with both the urban area and the new quickbird layer Nowak is working on. I'll try to release some test cases that point out what the bbox bug is and how we should fix it. Or I might dig around the source and see if I can't figure it out myself User:Llynix

"File or assembly name Microsoft.DirectX.DirectX3DX, or one of its dependencies, was not found" - DX_HELL returns! Llynix is certain he'll have this fixed shortly. (unconfirmed, one report from a guy who judging by the thread may very well be running an old alpha build)
Some installer dialogues show Italian when Dutch is selected. (I think it was in the correct language, just all messed up due to encoding issues.)

Overall a positive reaction I think. Well done everyone.

 *need to add a "reset default settings" somewhere and maybe need to delete settings from the harddrive on uninstall.
-;These bugs directly effect what I'm trying to do with both the urban area and the new quickbird layer I'm working on.  I'll try to release some test cases that point out what the bbox bug is and how we should fix it.  Or I might dig around the source and see if I can't figure it out myself [[User:Llynix]]
+;These bugs directly effect what I'm trying to do with both the urban area and the new quickbird layer  Nowak is working on.  I'll try to release some test cases that point out what the bbox bug is and how we should fix it.  Or I might dig around the source and see if I can't figure it out myself [[User:Llynix]]
 *bbox bug
 *transparency bug