Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!crocus!rtczegledi From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re:DPaint Bug ?? Summary: I found a dpaint 3 'bug'. Also: Some Digipaint III whining. Keywords: BU, BU, BUG Message-ID: <16235@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 3 Sep 89 00:32:04 GMT References: <720@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <13418@well.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 84 I think I found a real bug with dpaint III. It lies in the palette requester. To demonstrate it, set your palette colour to white, and then take the 'v' slider down two knotchs. Position your cursor above one of the knobs in the RGB gadget thing. Move your cursor so that if you click, the knob will move just one step. Click. Notice it moved two steps? When it gets near the top, it doesn't move just one step. --- Also, digipaint III seems to crash about once every two days for me. So far, it has always happened either when I start the program up, or when I exit. Typicaly, it's a guru 4.008042A8. Booting right to the disk. Once it crashed, it killed my clock (spirit board), and when I booted, somehow the machine decided to spit a whole bunch-o letter 'P's in the first console window before any of the normal text came up. Pretty crash. Even the modem lights went christmas. While I'm here, I'm going to tell everybody what digipaint III lacks and needs: (attn. newtek): When you open the workbench again, it pops to the front for a billisecond, and then leaves. If I open the workbench, don't you think it means I WANT to use the workbench? Keep it to the front. The 'clear' option and the keyboard equivilent don't do the same thing. shift K usualy clears either to black, or to white (can't seem to figure out when), and clear usualy clears to some other colour completely. I can shift K, and then clear (from the menu), and the screen will go through 2 diferent colour schemes. I think it was stupid to get rid of the add and subtract modes. They were very handy, and it royaly pee'd me off. Where's the fill? No colorfonts? Oh come on! Also, it needs a HSV palette, a sprite to give co-ordinates on screen, and about 64 to 128 'cans' where you can keep good paint colours. Like what photon paint does. Very handy. A grid would be nice. Very nice and special. Modes like 'OR' should work with texture mapping. I can think of no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to work together. Why can't I rotate my brush? Huh? It's stupid that I have to texturemap, and then rotate in 90 degree increments. Also, texture mapping is sort of dumb, (the way you implement it). it bothers me that you have to put the brush in that swap thing. Sometimes the 'no-background' option doesn't seem to work. The smoothening options suck. They really suck. They are slow, and hardly ever give decent results. Take some time and do it sort of the way delxe photolab does. It pains my brain that I can't use so many options with the actual brush (the data in the brush, not the colour). A low/high option (sort of like in photolab) for the hotspot on the transparency thing. I read the bit about twisting the colour range by the hot-spot vertical bar thing. But it doesn't sort of work with the point source. It would be useful to be able to set the 'twang' factor, so you could instantly switch the range for colour ranges. Support real anti-aliasing. It looks terrible when I expand a brush, and it does it's 'pretend' smoothening nonesense. I have blurred chunks. Is that useful? Is that professional? Please come out with an update with these features/fixes/updates and you'll have a serious winner. OH! Also, please keep separate pathnames for separate file requesters. I hate it when I save a file, and I get my fonts directory. A free memory requester would be handy too. Also, it's not too hard to keep track of how long a text line is going to be. How about having it not accept input after the line would get too long? I'm a pretty pleased customer of yours. I have your digitizer, digipaint 1 , and will probably pick up your toaster when you get it out. Just my opinions. Hope something gets done.