[:BUGS]

VP BUGS

(X = fixed; last housekeeping 3/14,v238

(o = Jim thinks they're fixed 4/26/88 v256)

(y = Sorry, that's just the way it works.  If want change put it on features

     list.)

(z = Is a bug but don't think it's worth fixing considering....)

(? = Non-reproducable.  Will try to fix it when can figure out how 

	 to repeat it.



v256



-    Summa tablet record macro seems slow on playback, as if always

     real-time???



v255



o    Can't use color 0 as second endpoint of a color ramp.

o    Arrow keys don't work in frames menu.

o    Go to mask menu.  Select 'clip' with the keyboard instead of mouse.

     Leaves a garbage box on your picture.

-    Bang wildly on down arrow and 'n' keys while recording a macro.

     Macro will lose sync on playback sometimes.   (Actually this bug

	 has been around for last 50 versions or so.  Tried to fix it about

	 5 times so far and always just make it worse.)

?    In zoom mode occassionally after a fill screen will flash horribly

     and machine lock up for about 1 minute.  Then all is well.  This

	 is a very erratic bug I haven't seen for about 3 weeks at all but

	 suspect it might still be around.  Never have been able to reproduce

	 it.



v253

o    Change RGB or HLS sliders on a color, then move to next

     frame without leaving palette editor: slider values remain

     the same although color slot in next palette is different.

?    Palette Value/Ramp: Does not accept key color as Stop color

     (tho does accept key color as Start color).

o    Crop effect works unpredictably with various inks.  Don't

     know if this is bug or feature, but I need to know what the

     process is here.  (E.g., gradient inks apply their pattern,

     glass seems to apply the key color in glass, emboss does its

     bit, but add doesn't seem to do anything, etc.)

-    On Lewis' AT, clicking on the F: drive button causes wild

     and erratic results.

o    Make a small text window with a large font.  Type some descenders

     (ie j's and g's).  Move around window.  Watch trail of descender pieces

	 muck up the screen (though gets cleaned up after finish moving window.)

o    Paste cel but do nothing else to frame.  Go to next frame.  Cel paste

     is lost!  (Showed up v250 or so.)

o    Set up a new cluster in palette editor (right click over active cluster).

     Now right click over matrix to copy a single color.  You'll see a

	 misplaced red color hilite box, and possible a grey one over the picture.

o    Make sure your time segment is a single frame.  Go 'loop segment'.

     Program hangs.







v246

o    Optics: Size Ratio number is not working.

o    Tile ink ignores [K]ey color clear setting.



v239

o    Frame range number box writes over Optics panel when F/S/A

     buttons are clicked from Optics panel.

o    Range buttons in Frames menu do not highlight (as Marks

     buttons do.)	



v236-238

-    Temp Drive alert gets lost if it can't access one of the

     drive in the range of active drives (like Eric's setup). 

     Also, does not show current temporary drive.

o    Inks lose their settings after a Tool change (e.g., select

     Box, adjust Dark ink to 20 with dither on.  Select Draw,

     then select Box, and Dark ink will be back to 50 with dither

     off.)

o    Menu lock-out: Select color Tint, right-click outside of MAX

     TINT PERCENT menu (or select Cancel) -- menu displays will

     not appear, though VP continues to function.  Press [Q] to

     quit, and reboot to normal.

o    Composite/Underlay opaque: Key color register is altered on

     Combine Colors and Use Overlay Colors.  Maintains key

     register on other two, but does a best fit on No Fit.

o    Optics: Spin/Center/Default doesn't work for poly and spline

     elements.

o    Color: Blend & Paste not greyed in Value menu.  (Get "Can't

     find vvtemp.ccl" message.)

y    Optics: Spin/Axis - the axis jerks around.  (Bug or

     feature?)

y    Unblue pastes key color.  (Shouldn't this work like Next

     Blue and restore image under blue?)	(No way it could work

	 like next blue.  Can be done over all...)

o    Paste Below ignores [K] button, always pastes opaque.

     (Noticeable with V Grad and other non-opaque inks.)

v227

X-   Spiral: Fatal lock-up on use.

v221

X-   Paste: Paste only works with Opaque Ink.

X-   Paste: Aborted paste moves Cel position.

X-   Color: Matrix/Cycle ignores All/Cluster setting.

X-   Color: Squeeze ignores Fit status.

X-   Text: Press [Return] twice while typing to crash to bad

     Start_Cookie.

v220

X-   Color: Line cluster draws through to restore buffer.  (Only

     noticeable when restore image is different from current

     image.)

z    Color: During color selection, although indicator dots and

     _most_ of the grid are no longer selectable, when the white

     cluster boxes, or the red indicator box are in the top row,

     their upper line (at the border of the bottom of the matrix

     and menu) _is_ selectable.

X-   Color: Auto maintenance of last five slots for menu colors

     causes real problems when those colors are used in the

     picture image.  I suspect the tolerance is too low right now

     for what constitutes a readable menu.  Example:

     -    Load NAGEL12.GIF.

     -    Tint All palette 50% to black.

     -    Result: There are plenty of available (though dim)

          colors, but the palette colors have been forced into

          the NAGEL pic.

v213

X-   Paste Below leaves images across all frames, and seems a bit

     wierd with either the key color or register zero.  (This

     seems to depend on the fli.  The below example with

     Balls.fli is erratic.  I've got a fli called Fuzz that does

     it every time.  Example:

     -    Load Balls.fli

     -    Cel/Get one of the balls.

     -    Cel/Below the ball, but move it first so it's halfway

          in the path of the moving balls.

     -    When you do get the ball pasted, play back the

          animation, and the ball remains over all frames, except

          where any moving images erase it.

X-   Mask Cel generates false color if cel is clipped from

     different palette.

v211

X-   Browse screen redraws.

X-   Optics: When in 'First,' Default Center doesn't visually

     position axis to center of graphic element.

v209

X-   To Segment links pastes the first frame image to the frame

     you're on.  (This is the one I kept running into in the

     training session.)  Example: You do a move over 20 frames of

     20 frames.  Go to frame #20 and create 40 total frames.  Do

     a move over segment 21-40.  When the rendering is complete,

     the image in frame #1 will be stuck in frame #20.  Do a

     Frame Restore to get where you really want to be.

X-   Poly Tool: One segment is missing on Reuse.  This is an old

     bug I thought had been fixed, but it's still there:

     -    Draw a five or six-point un-filled poly on frame #1 of

          about twenty frames.

     -    Clear the frame.

     -    Turn on Multi-frames, then Reuse and move all the

          points.

     -    Do a Preview, then a Use from the Multi-Frame menu.

     -    One line of the poly will not be drawn in the first

          frame of the animation.

o    Titling: Horizontally scrolling text wraps on itself if one

     end of the window is moved partially off the left or right

     side of the screen.

X-   Palette Editor: Force Ramp ignores color register zero; you

     can't pick it up as either the Start or Stop color.

X-   Optics: Spin/Turns sliders seem to no longer be calculating

     the fractions properly.  Example: Set 183 using [1/360];

     when you then click on the [1] button, the slider will read

     1.  This would have been zero before.  Are they rounding?

o    Optics: Spin Small sets the Move Z axis to 640, beyond its

     500 max. value.  (This is an old bug that was never

     documented.)

1/23, v206

X-   Optics: Clock path is broken.  No matter what size the

     resident fli, the clock appears briefly, as if there were

     only a couple of frames.

X-   Optics: Axis graphic is pasted to screen if you first move

     it during centering, then right-click to abort.

X-   Time menu: Should right-click on total frames to enter

     numeric dialog. (I know, this is not a bug, it's an

     inconsistency.  But it's been driving me crazy so I thought

     I'd put it in here.)

X-   Optics: Negative numbers still creeping to zero after

     wireframe preview.

X-   Palette Cycle playback snow at high speed.

X-   Grid Paste doesn't pick up the cluster range on gradient ink

     pastes until some other tool (such as Box) has defined the

     screen area.  To dup: Boot a virgin VP (delete the RAM temp

     files first).  Put a gradient in the current and active

     cluster.  Select V Grad Ink, then Paste Grid.  The grid

     should paste with multiple colors that are not part of the

     cluster.  Now, use the Box Tool to put a 3-inch gradient box

     in the center of the screen.  Paste the Grid again, and the

     scan area including the box will be right, but the rest of

     the screen will still be wrong.  (PS - It's not really

     necessary to boot with a virgin VP, but the bug is

     inconsistent otherwise.)

X-   Glow Ink seems very broken.

X-   Sep. Range is also broken.

X-   Optics/Size: When using the mouse to increase the size along

     any axis, the related slider increases the Reduce slider

     instead of reducing the Enlarge slider, e.g., the Y-axis

     Enlarge slider might read 163.

X-   Palette Editor: Both Restore and Undo are restoring and

     undoing paint applications as well as color changes --

     including any change to the screen, such as a new picture. 

X-   Although the default cel center axis now stays with the cel

     after a move (fix from previous bug), the new graphic axis

     is left behind.

1/15,v199

X-   Composite: Overlay (keep current colors) alters certain

     colors of the incoming fli screen depending on which

     register is in the Key Color slot -- making it near

     impossible to establish a clear Key Color for the incoming

     fli.

X-   Composite: Overlay (Combine Colors) alters the key color

     register (and its color).

X-   Trails: Still getting Out of Memory from Trails.  This time,

     alternating between Trails and setting a Spline path in the

     Optics menu.  Keep getting Out of Memory on first attempt to

     draw spline path.

X-   Microsoft Mouse: The Microsoft Mouse control panel uses

     color registers #0 and #15, both of which are black in the

     Video Paint default palette, so the control panel is a

     stylish black-on-black, and thus, invisible.  Easiest fix is

     to change the default RGB value of color register #15. 

     You'll probably find the control panel (CPANEL) in your

     MOUSE1 directory on C:.  Type CPANEL to install it; type

     CPANEL OFF to deinstall it.  Once it's installed, hold down

     [Ctrl][Alt] and press either mouse button to display the

     control panel.  It's designed to adjust the mouse

     sensitivity.

1/9, v195 (including housekeeping)

X-   In the Optics menu, set any of the Turns sliders to a minus

     number.  When you Preview the move, the sliders will move

     one step toward zero.  (The preview move, however, will not

     be affected.)

X-   Got a "divide by zero" error while adjusting something in

     the Timing menu.  Couldn't repeat it.  Will report again if

     I find it.

X-   Text: [Tab] no longer jumps ahead.  Now, it doesn't work as

     a [Tab].  But, main problem is it generates a carriage

     return on next keypress.

X-   Enlarge all the way no longer generates instant divide-by-

     zero crash, but... If you try it on a cel about 1-inch

     square from the center of a 19-frame anim, and actually

     render it, you'll get a cookie: 93/6a9e0004.

X-   Floppy drive bug still very much alive on my system.

X-   An erratic bug keeps appearing after a period of use where

     you can't enter either the Optic or the Palette menus.  Quit

     and rerun the program to fix it.

X-   Still having problems with Move to First.  I lost my

     wireframe cel completely after using it.  (It was probably

     somewhere far off the screen.)

o    Initial display frame of incoming composite file uses

     register zero as clear instead of current Key color.

12/28, v186

X-   Color Undo does not work on Interface color changes.

z    Spliced FLI takes on speed of resident FLI.  (Not sure

     whether this is a bug, a feature, or a whole can of worms. 

     I suspect the latter.)

X-   Moving the Rotate cel translates the Cel position, but

     moving the Stretch cel leaves the Cel position alone. (Would

     be better if neither Rotate nor Stretch altered the original

     Cel position.)

v176

X-   Curve tool, when used with H and V Grads, picks up extra

     colors beyond the boundary defined by the control points.

v170

X-   Move to First isn't reseting the tracks properly for the

     first mouse move.

12/9/88,v168

X-   File menus and Browse are not working properly with floppys

     drives again.  With disk in B: (my 3-1/2"), I select the B:

     path from the Browse menu and the drive light comes on...

     and stays on.  VP never finds the directory.  The only way

     out is to remove the disk and wait for time out.  (Haven't

     tried this on drive A, don't have any 5-1/4" disks right

     now.)

12/7/88,v166

X-   Optics: X & Y axes are backwards for the entire Spin/Turns

     section (both sliders and buttons).

X-   3D F/X: Clear Track does not clear Size/Center (though it

     seems to work for all others).

12/01/88, v162

X-   File Menu filename field: This should only be changed when

     the first FLI loaded has been replaced by a new FLI --

     presumably only by a Load operation, or by the user

     specifying a new filename during a Save operation. 

     Currently, VP picks up the filename from _any_ operation in

     the Browse Menu (View, Info, Kill), and from any Overlay or

     Splice operation.  (The only one of these that might be iffy

     would be a Splice to Start, but I suspect even then that the

     name of the original file loaded should be maintained.)

11/27/88, v160

X-   Palette Editor: The double-pixel (black/white) indicator

     dots are being read by the cursor during operations such as

     Set Range, etc.  You may think you're selecting the color in

     the slot, but you're actually selecting white -- or black.

11/22/88, v156

X-   Palette Editor: Undo doesn't undo the RGB/HLS slider

     positions.

X-   Can't use macros (realtime or otherwise) with optic moves.

     During Preview or Render the macro moves continue and it

     jumps ahead of itself.

11/21/88, v155

z    Transparent Cross Fade does a best fit when not asked to.

     (Jim - Why not just delete the Color Map prompt from this

     function?)

X-   Browse: Click on Path in Browse menu overwrites a portion of

     the screen with a copy of the path field.

11/15/88, v148

X-   Rotate reacts to Stencil, Stretch does whole different

     thing:  If using Opaque Ink, it ignores Stencil.  If using

     another Ink, like Glass, it applies that ink in the Stencil

     area and applies Opaque Ink in non-Stencil area.