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In response to: COMPLETED TASK: Get new release of DelphiZip dll

mholmes [Member] — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:56:55 +0000

Put the download in the DLL subfolder in the ZipMaster folder. You've put it in the root by mistake.

In response to: Response to feature requests from David

David [Member] — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:01:02 +0000

Part 1: Visible and Editable IDs

To avoid confusing users who don't need to see/edit the ID, leave it hidden and add an option to preferences to enable it for users who do need it.

Error checking should be simple: if the ID in the visible/editable ID field changes, check it and yell if it exists. That is the only place where a collision could occur.

Part 2: Templates

I suspect (with admittedly no evidence) that structured annotations will be as important as the current unstructured ones. While IMT can handle structured annotations now, it has proved to be an awkward and error prone process.

Granted it would be considerable work to implement. The UI part is not too difficult; there are Delphi components available that would do exactly what was required. The difficulty is that the component would need to be configured dynamically, based on the template. Then a back end would need to validate the user input and format it as XML, again based on the template.

I think I could probably do it in something like 2 - 3 weeks (just guessing, that's not a estimate). However, there is no way I will have time within the scope of the Scraps project.

If "vital" means Scraps is impossible without these features in IMT, then they are not "vital". The Scraps project is not dependant on either of these feature requests, though they are both highly desirable.

In response to: Release Day activity

IMT-User [Visitor] — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:52:45 +0000

Sorry to hear that, hope you'll find a way to make the system work again.

By the way, if all the buttons on the Category Manager window do have Default set to TRUE, then there's a visual effect which you can see; click on the listview component and see that all the buttons appear to have a bigger border (bottom and right side) than normal buttons ...

Cheers,
Jim Adden

In response to: Release Day activity

mholmes [Member] — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:57:15 +0000

The problems with Chinese seem to trace back to the TntUnicodeControls library; I installed a new version of it in October, and it seems to have broken the assignment of WideString Captions and other properties...

In response to: Release Day activity

mholmes [Member] — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:36:43 +0000

Confirmed that we have a problem with the Chinese translation file in both Win2K and XP; it doesn't seem to load properly. The German and Italian ones seem to be OK (although they're not complete, because they were created for earlier versions). So the translation system does seem to be working, but there's something different about the Chinese file. I'm wondering if it ended up being in a different format for some reason; perhaps it was edited directly rather than created using the translation interface. I'll have to contact Marcus B. who contributed it, and ask how it was made. I'll have a good look at this next week.

Cheers,
Martin

In response to: Release Day activity

mholmes [Member] — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 01:14:07 +0000

The edit menu images are a casualty of Delphi's internal code, I think. There are perfectly good disabled images there, but sometimes the way menus display the image list contents is inadequate. It seems to depend on the images and the colours they're using, so there's not much I can do about it. I see it in a lot of Delphi programs which use images on menus.

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant about the default setting; I hadn't realized you were reading the code, so I assumed you were referring to the default active button in the screen. I do need to reset the tab order in that window, and I'll change the default settings too. I don't think the setting makes any difference, though.

Would it be too much of an intrusion to ask you to identify yourself? It's a bit weird having a conversation when I don't know who I'm talking to.

Cheers,
Martin

In response to: Release Day activity

IMT-User [Visitor] — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:31:25 +0000

Hi there,

Re edit commands:
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OK, didn't notice that. But comparing to other menu items with grayed out images the edit command images are just gray boxes. If e.g. the "Delete Annotations" command is disabled the image is still recognizable and not just a gray box... Don't you have images for cut, copy, paste, etc. in disabled state?

Re Category Manager:
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The button property "Default" is set to TRUE for all these buttons and as far as I know it only makes sense to have one button on a form with this property set to TRUE

ubnCatManClose.Default := True
ubnEditCategory.Default := True
ubnDeleteCategory.Default := True
ubnAddCategory.Default := True

Re Chinese translation
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Yes, both font settings are set to Arial Unicode MS

Hope that helps!

In response to: Release Day activity

mholmes [Member] — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:33:25 +0000

Hi there,

The Edit menu items are grayed out unless you have your cursor in an edit box. In the main window, that's only the title box.

I don't see any problem with the Category Manager at all -- could you send me a screenshot?

The Chinese translation file was contributed by a generous user, but not being a Chinese speaker I haven't been able to test it other than checking that it loads OK. It was fine on the machines I tested, but I'll have another look this weekend on Win2K. Did you set BOTH the fonts to Arial Unicode MS in the Preferences screen?

In response to: Release Day activity

IMT-User [Visitor] — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:29:38 +0000

And another interesting point: run IMT on a Win2K machine and the Chinese translation doesn't show anything else than ???.
If I copy e. g. the MainForm's caption from the translation file into the title box everything is displayed correctly.
The font I use is Arial Unicode MS.

The input components (TTntEdit, etc.) all work fine, but none of the Labels, MenuItems etc.

In response to: Release Day activity

IMT-User [Visitor] — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:24:17 +0000

Just to let you know that the images on the Edit menu are broken -- only gray boxes are displayed.

And again the Category Manager form: click on the listview component and you'll notice that all buttons (Close, Add, Edit, Delete Annotation) do have the "Default" property set to TRUE -- doesn't make much sense, I think. Only the Close button should have that property set to TRUE.

In response to: Progress towards release

mholmes [Member] — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:13:59 +0000

You can get around the problem temporarily by deleting this file on your hard drive:

..Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\HCMC.UVIC.CA\Image Markup Tool v.1\ufrmCategoryManager.xml

Hope this helps,
Martin

In response to: Progress towards release

mholmes [Member] — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:07:40 +0000

Many thanks for this -- I'll see if I can fix it before today's release.

Who are you, by the way?

In response to: Progress towards release

IMT-User [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:53:18 +0000

Resizing the window "Category manager" and making it too small (so that buttons at the bottom overlap) results to access violation; restarting app doesn't help in any way since the too small form width/height properties are stored and reloaded each time; thus the AV occurs every time IMT is started and that form is created....