Hi, Firstly let me thank you for taking the time helping me. > I would *strongly* recommend you fix this before 1.0, or you will have > many angry customers indeed. A couple of quick comments about your > beta: Agreed. I thought about it, and yes, is better to fix it sooner than later.
> 1. The "Preferences" item is greyed out. If there are no preferences > whatsoever, it just shouldn't be there. Ok. > 2. I cannot start drawing into the empty window that appears when > I start the program. Either show a file selection dialog instead, or > open a blank document. I'm not comfortable with neither of two options. The "blank document" is not an option because every new painting have it associated source image. On the other hand, while the only purpose of this software is to create a painting from a digital photo, a user might not wan't to open an image immediately, possibly he wan't to play with the style settings, so I don't like the idea to force him to open an image. > 3. Why is there no File -> New menu item? Because a every new painting needs an original image to be transformed. So opening an image is a way of create a new project. > 4. The File -> Close menu item always seems to be greyed out and > the front window has no "close" widget either. Ok. > 5. Selecting "New from clipboard" when I already have something in > the main window seems to just discard what I have and create a new > document without giving me the opportunity to save my work. It's a bug. To be corrected. > 6. The "Show / hide tools" item in the "Windows" menu always has a > checkmark, whether the tools are shown or not. It's a bug. To be corrected. > 7. When I change the size of the tools window, it jumps to a minimal > width that is much larger than the original default width. I struggled a lot with it, it's an NSPanel with minimum and maximum size set, the behaviour is strange. One possible solution is to make the panel not resizable. I don't really like this option. > 8. The "floppy disk" icon in the tools window seems redundant. If I > create a new style, I would always expect it to be remembered > between launches. Yes, but you can change the built-in styles. You can change it momentarily and discard the changes by not pressing the save button. > 9. If you try to quit and have unsaved changes, the dialog should > read "Do you want to save the changes you made in the document > "Name"?" with a subcaption reading "Your changes will be lost if > you don't save them" and the default buttons should be "Save..." > "Cancel" and "Don't Save". Slightly different wording is OK, but > different buttons will confuse the user. Agreed, the logic is somewhat inverted. > One of the nice things about MacOS X is that behaviour is very > consistent across applications. Please follow Apple's user interface > guidelines, it will make your application more pleasant to use and > it will help you attract / retain customers. Yes, this is good. > Hope this helps. Yes!. It helps a lot, and I'm thankful for your help. / Enrique
