Hi,
On top of what Paul said there is also the Stack incompatibility
issues to contend with in 2.7.
I totally agree that we need and have said several times over the
last year or so that a bug fix only release is what is needed. This
product has had heaps of new functionality added over the last couple
of years and bugs that were there in the start have not been fixed.
This means that new functionality might actually break once a bug has
been fixed as well as just making the product much harder to use.
I can't understand why new functionality is added to a buggy base.
For instance the new feature detailed here:
New object blending capabilities. All objects, including standard
system controls such as buttons and fields, as well as media elements
such as QuickTime movies, can now be rendered using a rich variety of
blend modes and opacity settings.
Over 20 brand new blend modes. Includes the industry standard porter-
duff and SVG compositing operators.
Window level transitions. Now you can perform transitions with alpha
channels on an entire window, allowing effects such as rippling
applications on the desktop.
New image rendering options. Render an image from any object on-
screen, preserving the alpha channel, then transform and save.
Anti-aliasing Graphics Engine. Revolution’s vector graphics
presentation layer is now anti-aliased.
These are super-cool features, but they are not NEEDED, adding this
functionality now just means that any bugs that do not have a work-
around need to be fixed now and I'm betting that bugs that do have a
work-around will be put onto the "to do" list along with all the
others and so the "to do" list will grow. I've seen this situation
with other products. CodeWarrior for instance had a very buggy
debugger for ages and each new version did nothing to fix it, but
added loads of new functionality, which inevitably had new bugs which
needed to be fixed. It made using the product a much less satisfying
prospect which is what I have found with RunRev and for a Newbie it
is very off-putting.
I would much rather have 75% of the functionality with 5% bugs, than
100% of the functionality with 25% bugs!
All the Best
Dave
On 8 Mar 2006, at 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan,
I use OS X and agree with David. New users should start with 2.6.x
and wait while 2.7 matures.
Version 2.6.1 was the best all-around release of Rev in the last
three years. "In my experience" 2.7 was one of the worst.
The missing documentation chapters, crashes when accessing the
Table panel on the Inspector, etc. etc. affect all platforms. The
automatic changing of creator codes and file types affect OS X
users (especially the changing of creator codes which are not an
issue on Windows or UNIX). Changing the appearance of previously
created stacks from OS X to OS 9 may or may not be exclusively an
OS X problem.
2.7 promises to be very good when it is ready. I don't believe it
is ready yet.
Paul Looney
PS Remember the last meeting in Monterey when we asked for two
updates that did nothing but fix bugs? That seems, in hindsight, to
have been a very good suggestion. 2.6.8 could have been awesome!
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 10:43:21 -0800
Subject: Re: 2.7 bugs
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