My most annoying bugs...

So long since I'm waiting for them to be fixed :)

Published on November 23, 2004 By Fix In DesktopX Development

Hello,

Here are the bugs (all of them have been reported) that are really anoying
for me when building my themes :
1. Object.SetFocus has no effect in a DesktopX textbox activex control...
2. Each time the Object.BarMode is set to be always visible, if the bar is
on the left of the screen, all the other objects on the desktop are moved to
the right...
3. The Object_OnDropFiles(files) sub does not recognize urls from any
browser...
4. It's not possible to select multiple files with a System.FileOpenDialog
dialog box...

And here's a feature I'd *really* like to see : ability to set that an
object is a child of another one via script (you can currently set the
parent/owner of an object, but not the child feature).

Thanx for taking care of any of these ones

Best regards,
Fix

Comments

pjpowell

on Dec 11, 2004

With the exception of maybe 1 thing here these are not bugs but enhancement requests.

1. An ActiveX Control is not an object, it's contained in an object and so unless the control itelf includes a setfocus function it ain't going to work without some sort of wrapper.

2. Object.BarMode is making an object act like a toolbar and will therefore resize the desktop area which in turn moves stuff to fit the new desktop area. It's not exactly a bug but it would be nice to have the choice of whether it should do this for both the real taskbar and for special bars.

3. A URL is not a file therefore Object_OnDropFiles(Files) is unlikely to trap it as a file. It would need a separate event adding by the developers to trap dropping URLs.

4. The File dialog never claims to allow selecting multiple files. This would also be an enhancement request.

Sorry but it annoys me when things are labelled bugs which are not. They don't stop it doing what it was intended to do in the first place. They just don't do what you would like it to do.

pjpowell

on Dec 11, 2004

Solution Design: Which of your themes no longer works since the updates to DesktopX and in what way? I have always been impressed by the cleanness and classy look of your designs and the detail that goes into them and would be interested in getting them working again. I just loaded Aquamarine Series 5.6 and it seems fine to me other than a lot of the objects not being parented to anything.

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