Hi Hamid, > If you budget your time to allow for not getting it right the > first time a certain percentage of times, the equation changes. > Frankly, you or I should really not care how it is done by > someone else. Each of us should base our decision on how things > are currently working for us. > For me personally, after having used 99SE for as long as I > have, errors of that kind are extremely rare.
I'm not talking about a mistake, but where you need to make a change, and then maybe have a look before tweaking some more. Even something as basic as choosing a designator text size. You know the number of steps it takes in 99, in AD, type IsDes (auto complete will change it to 'IsDesignator' in the filter panel, then just change the height in the inspector, maybe the line width and even the font, only you get to see each change graphically and can still change it again. I have found many other times where this helps also, I don't recall them off the top of my head. > On of my problems with 2004 has been that it requires much > more use of the keyboard. I am not talking about hitting > the space bar, or the tab key, or control something, etc. > I am talking about cases where you have to move your hand > away from the trackball to the keyboard. Yep, that is true. > Even if you have to move your focus from the screen to the > keyboard, it takes time. That whole refocusing costs you > several seconds every time you have to do it and seconds > add up in the course of a day. I don't look at the keyboard to type, and have used the hotkeys with Protel since the first time I used it, back in 1986. Pity the AT keyboards moved the function keys yo the top, they worked much better on the left with the XT keyboard, even if they only had 10. > A second bug in 2004, that I have personally reported to Altium > at least 3 times, is that it does not work with large fonts. I > have dual 2048x1536 monitors and hence run extra large fonts as my > system fonts. > In 99SE, where all text appears in its separate boxes, things > come out looking nice and legible independent of the size of the > system fonts because Windows handles the sizing issues (as explained > to me by a Windows programmer). In 2004 and AD, the text is displayed > on a common background and as a result gets clipped and overwrites > each other, rendering it virtually unreadable. Yep, I used large fonts for years, 99 has some small large font issues but I could put up with them. I have had a few other programs that also didn't work very well with larger fonts also About 2 years ago I changed to small fonts, and then changed the font size by about 20% in the display Properties, Appearance tab to all the fonts, and some other settings in Outlook. I'm glad this is not an issue for me, it used to drive me nuts. My current setup is two 1920 x 1200 23" LCD's. (HP2335) > I think what you are trying to say is that the list of times AD is > slower is much less than the list of times where it is faster or much > faster and as a result you end up saving time overall. Am I > right? Yes that's right. But I can also do things that I just couldn't do in 99 and that saves me a lot of time too. > If so, good for you. > > For me, that has not been the case in the times I have used DXP and > 2004. I think it was SP2 that was much faster, this was the turning point for me. Up till then I was using 99 for my day to day work. > I am well aware that things will speed up if I start using it > regularly and get more proficient, but it is my judgment that > due to a number of inherent problems with the user interface, > I am unlikely to reach a break even point. The equation may > change if due to totally new features (board flip or enhanced > features for the mouse scroll wheel for example) savings can > be realized in other areas that offset the increased cost for > the neutered features. However, it still bugs me that a company > would nutters good software because someone who does not > actually use it (most probably marketing) decides that it > looks prettier that way and has no concept that the changes > make it less functional. For me, I didn't really get the benefits until I started to use it full time. Just trying it every so often is a waste of time as you find yourself thinking in 99 mode, and that just doesn't work. > That is the information I was looking for. Thanks for it. I > would love to hear how you feel about it after using it for some time. I expect that updates could come as often as every few weeks, you choose when it checks, then it lists the changes that have been made. Then you choose to download it, and were it goes. It then installs like any other SP has. If there is a problem you can still remove the patch. Regards, Darren ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
