Survex 0.99 prerelease 9

[graham.mullan]

Running under Windows ME, the only one of these problems that I find is the
slowing down of rotation when the mouse is moved. (You can also get it to slow
down by displaying all the station numbers).

Graham

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Shinwell" <Mark.Shinwell@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: <Amoebatron@aol.com>
Cc: <survex@survex.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Survex 0.99 prerelease 9


> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:41:13AM -0500, Dunks wrote:
> > [1] There's still a problem opening .3d files by using
> > the file association with aven.exe in windows (at least
> > in NT4).  Aven launches, the tree of station names
> > gets populated, but no survey appears.  Stations can be
> > displayed, but aven seems to think there are no legs
> > joining them.
> >
> > [2] There seems to be a new problem opening .3d files
> > by using the File Open... menu in Aven.  Same as above.
> > In both cases, opening the .3d file a second time using
> > the File Open... menu causes the survey to be loaded
> > correctly
>
> I'm quite sure both of these operations work correctly on my Windows
> 2000 machine.  Can you check that you're definitely running the new
> executable?
>
> Can anyone else confirm these problems?
>
> > [3] A minor glitch exists when searching for stations by
> > name.  In all.3d from the sample dataset, try searching
> > for 'qz'.  You should get '0 found'.  Now search
> > for 's', and you'll get '4159 und', rather than '4159
> > found'.
>
> Bizarre.  It works fine on Linux -- haven't got a Windows machine to
> test it on right now.
>
> > [4] Rotation still falters if the mouse is moved in the
> > survey panel, even with the measuring line off.
>
> I'll be addressing performance issues like these after we've got version
> 1.0 out.  There are a multitude of areas in which I intend to improve
> speed...
>
> Mark
>
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