Re: RE: Updated Win32/MingW Patch

On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:27:54 +0100, Thomas Kimpton =20
<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> This is *not* a new release of Zinf on Windows, and you use
>> it at your own
>> risk, but please do mention any issues you have with it on
>> this list, as
>> they'll need fixing sooner or later.
>>
>> Download (~7MB):
>> http://thepriorities.com/zinf/zinf-mingw.zip
>>
>> Anyone any objections to getting this patch in CVS now it no
>> longer breaks
>> the build?
>>
>
> I downloaded this, and am using it on WinXP. Here are some issues that
> I have found (I've not used zinf in some time, so, some of these
> may be changes made since I last used it):
>
> 	1. Window position of the player is not remembered, it starts up
> centered in the screen.
> 	2. Window position of playlist editor is not remembered, it
> starts up at {0,0}.
> 	3. Window size of playlist editor is not remembered

Hmm, looks like there's an overall problem with the size/position =20
attributes of the windows as I don't remember touching this code, and it =
=20
does work on Linux.

> 	4. Playlist is not remembered (i.e. I load a bunch of albums,
> close window, quit zinf, restart, no playlist).
> 	5. 'Options' menu item is under 'View' rather than 'Edit'
> 	6. Two 'currentlist's under 'My Playlists'
> 	7. No Genre folders under 'My Music'
> 	8. Need 'Clear Playlist' on right click menu in playlist pane
> 	9. Cannot drag and drop from 'My Music' pane to playlist pane
> 	10. Double Click on an album in 'My Music' pane both opens
> album, and appends album to playlist.
> 	11. Right click in playlist pane selects song under mouse
> (extending any current selection).

These all look to be related to the use of the old musicbrowser. I'll hav=
e =20
to try and get the newer browsermm built and use that instead. It won't =20
fix all of these yet, but it'll be a start.

> 	12. If clicking 'About' is to bring up the 'Options' box, it
> should come up with the 'About' pane selected.

This has been broken on the Linux build as well for a while.

> 	13. 'About' should include build specific information, to
> distinguish between different builds.

I'm not sure what you mean. It does currently give the version (i.e. =20
2.2.5), what other information would you expect here?

> I've not tried the equalizer, don't use it.
>
> Tom.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll hopefully have some time to look at these =20
issues soon.

Cheers,
David
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