POWERICONS , A BIG WARNING TO ALL THE USERS!

[lempkee]

STAY AWAY FROM 1.02 , it's VERY BUGGY!

1. Installer Doesnt work anymore (default amiga installer)

2. System gets very unstable , crash alot on boot up

3. Redraw speed is alot slower than compared to 1.00.


i used all day today to find out that powericons 1.02 was the problem. , so i now moved back to 1.00 .

A BIG TIP TO ALL , STAY AWAY!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrRR!

[lempkee]

bbhogget: 1.02 as its stated above!

[lempkee]

bhogget: i have no idea where you got 1.03 from but i didnt mention it at ALL did i?.

1.02 = BUGGY
1.01 = dont know because i havent bothered to touch it as i wasted 1 friggin day on 1.02 (installed yesterday but didnt notice the extreme bugs until today)
 

[lempkee]

obviously there is an 1.03 out, i didnt know that until now since i downloaded mine yesterday..


Short:    NEW! 32bit PNG icons on your Amiga !!! (68K and MorphOS)
Uploader: uni-dea@jumpy.it (Elena - www.elena-fractals.it)
Author:   uni-dea@jumpy.it (Elena - www.elena-fractals.it)
Type:     util/wb
Requires: AmigaOS 3.5/3.9, Hi/True Color Workbench
Replaces: util/wb/PowerIcons.lha
Version:  1.02


 PROGRAM HISTORY
 ----------------------------

 1.02 (23 Oct 2003)
  -Default icons got wrong size with icon.library < 45.10. Fixed.
  -Improved Workbench dragging of PNG icons using a white rectangle. Please don't ask
   me to improve it further since it's only a drawback for WB.
  -Added SWAPTEXTCOLORS option
  -Using GHOST=100 no additional calculation will be computed for default icons,
   so people thinking that the ghosting effect slows down scrolling may try this
   (even if I don't believe that)
  -Fixed some dangerous alignment problems that could cause crashes under some
   circumstances and problems with Amidock.
  -Overall code improvement and optimizations. Scrolling might be a bit faster now.


this is the buggy one.  (1.02)

and madmatt just told me he tried 1.03 and same bugs in that one!

so i am back to 1.00 ..and i wont go upgrade till the problems are fixed....now you all know!

cheers

[lempkee]

author has been messaged about it , and besides this is a forum and telling people to stay away from a buggy software like this , YES i think thats the way to do it!

i wasted 1 day on this issue and i wasnt very happy about it.

anyway this problem is for both 1.02 and 1.03 , lets see if 1.04 is better when and if that comes.

if its wrong to tell people that a program is buggy then why do we have "SOFTWARE ISSUES" thread?  and why must i be silent when such a thing happens?

i have got heaps of PM's with people telling me the same happened to them and thanx to my post here they found out why their system rebooted instantly when they clicked on an install ICON!

[lempkee]

well dietmar,  its normal to get very upset after wasting 1 day with copying back all of your system because a simple thing as an installer stops to work, and i didnt even consider powericons as the issue because 1.0 worked fine!

if i was rude , sure maybe i was , but i responded as a normal person would and i got upset because of people asking if it was 1.03 when i had allready said 1.02 "3" times!.

hiding issues like this is never a good thing, and when it comes to such a wonderfull patch/hack as this one, i will never move away from it but i wont use later ones unless i know they work as they should.

and i am sorry if i hurt anyones feelings , my plan wasnt to spam the software , just warn the users about it, and when i did... several said the same thing about 1.03 aswell, so what would happen if i had'nt done it?

i remeber back when people talked about the buggy os3.9 installer! , people was then allowed to say it was buggy , i might have not been that rude in that thread because of several reasons i guess.

anyway i don't see what i have done to annoy anyone in this thread with the first post! , sure my second and 3rd was annoying and i agree totally on that because i was very annoyed when that was posted.
(i took that as , HOW CAN YOU BE SURE that this is a bug or not...bla bla kind of assumption,  thats why i got very upset , my fault.. and i know i will try to stay abit more calm if such a thing happens again.)

cheers.

pps: there was 3 updates in 4 days! , and i reported errors on the first release , i can work around that so its ok for now, but 1.02/1.03 i cant work around, thats why i posted it in the forum here to let people know!  (other than that i messaged the author about all issues)

pppps: and i dont think we can make her look bad, she has written some of the finest patch/hack on our system + given us a great program (Z.E), if it had been crap i wouldnt have bothered to email her/visit her guestbook + reported the issues here.

[lempkee]

joannaK: yes this is very true and i couldnt agree more with you , but in the long run you benefit on running this patch/hack.

because you dont have to remap icons anymore , you dont loose chipmem (its always at max here  now)  and stuff like that , + old icons are now faster (no remapping) and you can use highcolor icons or 256color icons without having a pen crash or what ever.

so all in all this patch/hack is great and i wont ever move back to the old one , unless its for os4 on an amigaone where chipmemory aint a crucial problem.

on a pegasos with morphos you dont really need this patch but its available for it and i guess it will be fully integrated or? , or why is there a mos version at all?
(that part is abit confusing,but i doubt its there for no reason at all (powericons morphos. )

cheers

[lempkee]

framiga: nope , its in 1.03 also as i allready said! and madmatt said etc.

it crash on installer packages!.

and yes i am aware of that its a hack and its under development , but 1.0(1) is the best so far.

goodluck on the bughunt!.

[lempkee]

joannaK:ah ok so thats why this patch is for morphos also? ... ok..

thanx for the info!

[lempkee]

framiga:yep, and remeber same on 1.02 also, i got an email from elena now and she got the same problem also, so things are getting sorted i guess.

cheers

[lempkee]

1.04 , sure install it..

i was helping her with it , trying to get the issues fixed and it seems 1.04 is atlast very stable here (compared to 1.02) , anyway 1.04 holds the same quality as 1.0*/1 did, atleast for me and my setup.

i wish u good luck on trying it , its a great patch , but it has its downsides (no scalos and dopus magellan support) but it alsi has many big ++++++

cheers