LZ: Re: USGARD: First Looks


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LZ: Re: USGARD: First Looks



> 	I just got USGARD and have been playing around with it and here are
> my first impressions/bug finds.  I personally dont like the way the start
> menu extends so far to the right, the window should be shorted to the end of
> the text, at least for the start and program menu.  Under the contrast
> changer, the pixel after the bar is never there...
Well, how minds that?

> 	The explorer is neat, but needs work.  For one, when I went into F1
> copy program, then pressed exit, it really messed up my memory, 2nd mem doesnt
> work and there is a wierd string as the bottom file of the explorer.  How come
> libs dont have their own typetab entry?  I think it would be nice if the
> title bar would have a free mem display on it.  Also, why cant the explorer
> do scrolling like the control menu does? it would look a lot better.  The
> filter stuff seems to sometimes filter out all the files, even when it
> shouldnt.  The Run What? screen could look better :)
Why should 2nd MEM work in explore? But I gonna add FREE MEM in the title bar. ANd I'll modify the scrolling. 

> 	Safehold is really clumsy the way it is written now.  I can see the
> programming problem.  It needs to be able to figure out if it was started
> by startup, startup from turning it on, or by the user.  So it can quit to
> TI-OS, shutdown, or go into options respectively.  Then it would have the
> same usefullness as the old safehold did, fast and easy to use.
This could be fixed, I think.

> 	The library stuff seems to lack a little bit. Mainly with the problem
> of running a program and not knowing what lib it needs.  This will especially bea problem when you give a > program to another
user and it wont work.  One
> partial solution would be to somehow display the lib number from explorer, but
> it would still be the main problem with this shell.
That's surely the main problem. We are going to write a program which will tell you the libraries used by a program. Oh well.
 Andreas
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