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!

[Mad-Matt]

Yes, I noticed 1.02 is very buggy. I switched back to v1.01 and all seems ok again.

[bhoggett]

Is that warning for version 1.02 or 1.03?

When giving out such warnings, it's vital to be accurate.

[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)
 

[that_punk_guy]

There's a new release 1.03 on Aminet...

 1.03 (25 Oct 2003)
  -Loading very little PNG icons (16x16 or so) could cause decoding buffer overflow with consequent system crashes. Fixed.

Download here.

[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

[Motosampy]

Didn't ever test 1.02 but 1.03 works perfectly here, I've changed all my icons to png and never going back to the old ones...

040/40, Mediator&VirgeDX 4mb, OS3.9bb2,....

[Thematic]

I'll pass this one, too much fuss for little gain.  OTOH for some that is exactly what they want out of computing.

[kolla]

And bitmap icons are just so passé anyways, these days it's animated vector icons that count.  :-D

[Mad-Matt]

Didn't ever test 1.02 but 1.03 works perfectly here, I've changed all my icons to png and never going back to the old ones...

Before enforcing that just try a recent whd game installer. It calls upon icons to show you what icons you can install for the game.  Powericons 1.02 and 1.03 is crashing the system when this action is called. There are probably other issues but this is the one that stands out for me.  Tested on real Amiga and uae, same effect. CrAsH / Recoverable alerts!

1.00 and 1.01 doesnt seem to have this issue.   Before blaiming the installs, keep in mind that its PowerIcons thats the massive hack and breaking stuff.  Ill keep on using 1.01 for now since it seems most stable.

[sir_inferno]

here here, (for the first post)

[iamaboringperson]

I was never going to use that program anyway, too hacky for my liking

[samo79]

OH !!...we must advice Elena Novaretti, so i don't understand why this version contain a few bug.......

[JurassicCamper]

Anyone tried contacting the author, rather than complaining here :roll: Maybe your time would be better spent in sending a bug report.