A few interface problems…

By Colonel ONeill | December 30th, 2008 | 2:05 pm

1. After resuming from hibernate, I opened the control panel and was greeted with a gigantic window. Seeing as the window type has been set to Fixed Single (VB term), I was unable to resize it.

There should be a window size verifier on the restore event.

2. In the exclude list window, my entries are fairly long, and do not show up in it’s entirety.

There are no scrollbars and the window is not resizable. Recommendation to put in horizontal scrollbars, and also to make tooltips: When the cursor hovers over an entry, the tooltip appears with the full entry. This would be very useful for long paths.

3. When choosing exclude by mask in the Cache Viewer, it locates the first . in the path. This causes it to recognize my Username:

I:\Documents and Settings\Administrator.THEMACHINE\Application Data\….

It states by default:

.THEMACHINE\Application Data…

Recommendation: Iterate through all occurences of . until the last one to determine file type. Or search backwards.

That’s all I’ve noticed for now. Hope I’m not being too bothersome… :D

2 Responses to “A few interface problems…”

  1. Colonel ONeill
    Dec 31, 2008

    Sincerest apologies about #1… It seems my skinning software does funny things to certain dialog boxes sometimes… Although the window size checking wouldn’t hurt. :)


  2. Ilya Elenik
    Jan 07, 2009

    Thanks for your report.
    1. Is difficult becouse different languages and different font setting can produce differents sizes for dialog window. There is no any constants or ranges which we can check.
    2. Window is resizable, but indeed there is a bug with long path names. We will try to fix it in next build (485 or greater)
    3. We are doing backwards search. But there was problems for files without extension.



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