So I think I know what is occurring although I cannot reproduce the problem. when you scroll to see the hidden portion of the right column, the hidden part is copied from an offscreen image where the text was previously drawn to. The problem appears to be that the offscreen image is being drawn 1 pixel to far right and 1 pixel too far down.
I will look at my native offscreen image copying code to see if there is any code that might be miscalculating the window coordinates to draw to.
I have made the following changes in the following test patch:
1. I have made some small tweaks the offscreen image drawing code in an attempt to fix the slightly offset drawing that revsmitty reported in his last few posts. I am hoping that this test patch will either fix the problem or increase the frequency of the problem. If either case happens, please let us know.
2. I have upgraded our patch installer to use Apple's newer "flat package" format. This change is necessary in order to support code signing of the installers in our upcoming Beta so that Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion's new Gatekeeper feature will allow our installer to run by default. If the test patch fails to install for any reason, please let us know.
Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Iowa, USA
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:58 am Post subject:
P5T5 installed fine on my 10.6.8 MacMini. It did not resolve the screen drawing issue. It does appear to me that the offscreen image is now being drawn correctly vertically but is still 1 pixel off horizontally.
I will attach a screen shot. I also have a multiple page LoremIpsum document that I can send since it seems to appear more frequently when I am pasting into it with things like different margins, indents, and hanging indents.
P5T5 installed fine on my 10.6.8 MacMini. It did not resolve the screen drawing issue. It does appear to me that the offscreen image is now being drawn correctly vertically but is still 1 pixel off horizontally.
That is good news to hear that the vertical portion of the problem is fixed. For me, that confirms that I have found the location in the code that is causing the bug.
revsmitty wrote:
I will attach a screen shot. I also have a multiple page LoremIpsum document that I can send since it seems to appear more frequently when I am pasting into it with things like different margins, indents, and hanging indents.
I have been using the attached 2 column document filled with "lorem ipsum" text as well. What I am interested to know is you have any specific steps that I can use to emulate pasting different margins, indents, and hanging indents. I admit that I don't fuss with margins so if you have some common steps that you have done that occasionally trigger this bug, that might help me locate the cause of the remaining horizontal shifting.
Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 94 Location: Iowa, USA
Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 1:13 pm Post subject:
Patrick, Using your columns document I was able to cause it to happen 3 times in a row by doing the following.
With just the left column and only 1/2 of the right column showing
1) Copy the Nam imperdiet paragraph and paste it 3 times in the first column on the second page before the Vestibulum paragraph.
2)Without scrolling up or down the page start with the last of the 3 paragraphs you pasted and make it a hanging indents by sliding the left margin marker (the house shaped one in the formatting ruler) the the right to about 1" then slide the first line margin marker back to the left and create about a 1/2" hanging indent. Repeat this for each of the other two paragraphs again without doing any vertical scrolling.
Now if you scroll to the right hand column You should see the issue show up in the Nulla pulvinar paragraph
The multiple setting/changing of paragraph formatting seems to be the main trigger because it causes the screen redraws and the resultant offset when you scroll to the off screen part of the page.
I haven't had much time to play with the latest test patches, but I've uncovered two bugs with the recent changes
First, I can no longer use the keyboard to close the "You have unsaved changes; are you sure you want to quit" dialog; STR:
1) Open Neo
2) Open a new document, type any letter
3) Cmd-Q
4) Try to trigger any of the buttons with the keyboard (Return, Esc, D/Cmd-D)
This still works fine in the regular Patch-5, and I'm pretty sure it worked correctly after the prior round (pre-Patch-5) of deJavafication. 10.5.8/Intel with Patch-5-Test-6 here; I checked both my regular and testing accounts.
Second, it's no longer possible (I assume with the switch to the new installer package type) to re-install the regular patch over top of the corresponding test patch (for instance, in order to verify something works normally in the regular patch). Installer.app claims "You cannot install NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 on this volume. A newer version of this software already exists on this volume."
With some help from Uncle Google and Uncle man-page, I discovered that
will make Installer.app allow me to reinstall the regular patch over the test one, so it's not the end of the world for us testing-users, but I remember that some years ago you had put in substantial effort to make it "just work"
I hope that you have a good Memorial Day—and that you don't spend it debugging these
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
First, I can no longer use the keyboard to close the "You have unsaved changes; are you sure you want to quit" dialog; STR:
1) Open Neo
2) Open a new document, type any letter
3) Cmd-Q
4) Try to trigger any of the buttons with the keyboard (Return, Esc, D/Cmd-D)
I can reproduce this as well so I will investigate what is broken in my new code. I also found that I had accidentally disabled full screen mode on Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8 so I will put that fix and a few other small fixes in the next test patch.
sardisson wrote:
Second, it's no longer possible (I assume with the switch to the new installer package type) to re-install the regular patch over top of the corresponding test patch (for instance, in order to verify something works normally in the regular patch). Installer.app claims "You cannot install NeoOffice 3.2.1 Patch 5 on this volume. A newer version of this software already exists on this volume."
I ran into this same issue for the first time yesterday so I suspect that when I converted to Apple's new "flat package" format, I am missing some option that says the package is upgradable and, as a result, our volume check script in the installer doesn't even get run. Instead, the installer automatically marks the volume that you previously installed the patch to as "not available."
that you found is the workaround that I use. But I will research the Apple flat package XML documentation to see if I can find any configuration option that will restore the old behavior.
Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 561 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:59 am Post subject:
I just installed the latest Patch 5 test 6 and have found a couple of issues in Base.
First the Sun Report Builder section labels to the left of a report being edited are all black - vanilla 3.2.1 and P5T6 screen shots attached.
Secondly, after following through the New Report Wizard, at the last stage selecting to modify the report displays the report in edit mode, but selecting to run the report immediately shows a blank window and then crashes NeoOffice, crash report attached.
First the Sun Report Builder section labels to the left of a report being edited are all black - vanilla 3.2.1 and P5T6 screen shots attached.
Secondly, after following through the New Report Wizard, at the last stage selecting to modify the report displays the report in edit mode, but selecting to run the report immediately shows a blank window and then crashes NeoOffice, crash report attached.
I can reproduce both of these bugs on my machines. Also, I can reproduce the crashing bug by creating a new table in an empty database with the "create new table" wizard.
I just finished fixing the bugs that reported in Smokey's last post so I will investigate these 2 bugs immediately.
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