Date: 3/11/2006
| About 2 weeks ago I got an email from a Scribe translator about how the some of the controls in the Scribe.lr8 file are too tiny to select and translate, this was because LgiRes had a bug that meant the controls moved around when you loaded the file again. In fixing that I ended up changing some of the way Lgi handled client/non-client regions in GView's that don't have an actual HWND (otherwise known as virtual views). Previous this had been a bit broken and in fixing it I had broken it properly. After hours of work I got sick of mucking with it and gave up. However this left the development build of LgiRes dead in the water. So I started using the build off the website. Which works but all the controls in the LayoutTable's move around randomly.
Then of course I had need to delete a control and it crashed. Bugger. I was trying to change the receive account UI in Scribe to have a specific field for the "Port" number because I'm sick to death of explaining to people what "Server[:Port]" means. So my grand idea was to make Port a separate field with a checkbox to enable it. And when it's not enabled its greyed out with "(default)" written in grey text. Sound good? Well at least it'll be bleedingly obvious I hope.
Anyway I've been forced to fix LgiRes, which I got done today. One little question from a user sometimes triggers off weeks of work, refactoring code, fixing design/architecture issues, fixing fundamental parts of code that requires lots of testing. So when you're wondering why things sometimes take so long, thats why. Some changes are a few lines of code, some are many weeks of work spanning multiple software products and effecting API's, DLL's and my sanity.
Next week will likely see the release of Scribe v1.89 test8, with all it's shiny new options code. I want to run it live a bit more now that the development is slowing down, see if there are any showstopping issues.
PS the lr8 file format had a hard coded offset in the child controls that hang off a dialog. That has been removed in the latest LgiRes + Lgi builds. You just need to load/save you lr8 to update them to the new offset.
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