2009/11/16 usch <[email protected]>:
>
> Very nice job, I like it. However, I have a couple of wishes/complaints,
> too:
>
> 1) The program crashed after scanning the database..
> This was probably caused by Moose trying to write moose.moo and the
> thumbs folder to the program directory, which is read-only if not
> running with administrator rights. I created a Moose folder under
> %APPDATA% and specified that as the path for both, which solved the
> problem. I think it would be a good idea to set that as a default.
Yes, I'll make sure it warns and suggests rather than erroring and crashing.
Not sure it's a good idea defaulting to %appdata% without adding an
installer/deinstaller.. Nothing worse than apps which leave cache files and
the like all over the place..
> 2) Player names with national characters don't display properly. The
> Boom in my Kitchen ("Küche" in German) shows up with an "undefined
> glyph" placehholder instead of the "ü".
Ahh, not something i've tried.. I'll sort this..
> 3) Would it be possible to use the regular Windows GUI for the program
> and dialog windows, title bar, title bar buttons, window frame, menus
> etc. instead of that self-made one? Pretty please? :) My graphics driver
> can add its own buttons to title bars (move to next monitor, move to
> next desktop, maximize across all monitors etc.) which doesn't work with
> non-standard windows. Right-Click on the title bar should bring up the
> system menu, which doesn't work either. And I am constantly maximizing
> the main window when I meant to minimize it, because the two buttons are
> swapped compared to the regular windows GUI - if possible, the leftmost
> button should always be "minimize".
Well.. It should probably be optional.. The problem with the standard windows
stuff is it doesnt allow for custom buttons in the title bar.. So
having a minimise
and a minimise to tray just isnt possible and any hacks to make it so
look pretty
dodgy on win7 et al.. But maybe minimise should just be minimise to
tray anyhow..
> 4) Every time I open the library window, the artist and album listings
> revert to sort by "Name", even though I had selected "Sort" and "Year".
> Could that selection be made sticky?
It could.. I'll add it in..
> 5) Cover images that are not square (like DigiPaks or Maxi-CDs) are
> displayed distorted which looks quite ugly. It would look better to pad
> them with the background color. Or to make that an option (distort / pad
> / crop).
Yes, the album display code needs revisiting.. Looks like the way I detect the
default no-albumart image isnt working quite right at the moment too..
> Anyway, I am quite impressed so far. I thought of writing an
> iTunes-like Windows UI myself, seems like you saved me some time. :)
Good, glad you like it.. Thanks for the suggestions and things..
Always welcome..
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- Dr Lovegrove
http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove
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