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There are some who love software testing. Others hate it. I am neither of these, but as the author I am now beginning to go round in circles and probably repeating certain aspects of the program whilst ignoring others.

This page does explain what the program is all about:-
http://www.erio.co.uk/eriowa.html

So please test it or if it is something you can use. do use it.

If submitting error reports of something that is not obvious, do please indicate how you got there.

Incidentally, Erio-DR is also written in Purebasic.

Your assistance is much appreciated.

Regards,

Ernest

Not a bad start, I have been meaning to create something similar when I get time, could be handy for peoples photo pages.

Have not done a lot of testing so far but here are a few things to look at for now.

1. Might be an idea to cater for sceens that are at least 600px high, to cater for the netbook market.

2. If font selection window is cancelled the main window loses focus and cant be brought back or closed, program must be ended using task manager.

3. When color selector dialog opens, any window immediately behind the main window gets sandwiched between the two.

Sorry for the delay in answering but i have been away for a couple of days.

The first thing that struck me from your reply was ------"Darling River"!!

With a name like that I had to check where it was. Will Google Streetview to see if the location(s) do match the Darling of the title!

1. Not sure what you mean. If you mean that the Erio-WA screen should be less than 600 so that the program fits comfortably on a Netbook, I think this is a good idea and I shall implement it.

If instead you mean that the created pages should offer other than the 800 x 600 I am not so sure. A 4:3 ratio is easily the most prolific ratio. Other ratios would need to be reflected in the thumbnails which could end up with the main page extremely untidy.

2. I cannot replicate this with .exe or .pb runs. When you close the requester, are you getting a small window with serif/sans selection? If you do then on closing that one the main window does have focus. I therefore wonder whether perhaps you are not seeing that window hence the main window is effectively locked. If so this would appear to be a similar problem to your item 3.

3. Problem noted. I shall play with stickinesses.


So thank you for this first input. I shall implement the reduced WA size/stickiness over the next couple of days and signal the update.

Regards,

Ernest

I am down the bottom end of the Darling River near Wentworth, New South Wales.

Yes the 600 high for Erio-WA screen, to cater for the netbooks and such market to provide wider compatibility for distribution.

The number 2 problem is most probably with the sticky window, and you not giving focus back to Erio-WA again. This only happens when Cancel out of the font selection window, I get no serif/sans selection window, and I would think that would be the normal operation as I am cancelling the operation. If I click on Ok I get the serif/sans selection window, so after it is closed Erio-WA gets focus again.

I hope you can follow this explanation, cant think of a better way.

EDIT:
I thought of a way you might want to implement for the smaller screen height, without having to change your layout.

Took a look at Wentworth - nice expansive place so I guess it matches the river name nicely.

However Streetview took me initially just north of Wentworth. Pretty wild scrub land which is difficult to image from the UK!!

Anyway changes have been implemented.If you go in via Erio - Software, please ignore the 20th March date on the Software page! I'll change it when it is all over.

Regards,

Ernest

I was under the impression the standard netbook resolution was 1024x600

It is, but when task bar at bottom of Windows is always displayed it takes up space, so I go with 530.



Yep! out in the bush here.
I will check out the changes.