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Known bugs/issues/enhancement requests in MacApp 2.0B9 9/27/89 Compiled by Richard Rodseth (MACAPP.TEST) MacApp Quality Assurance Apple Computer, Inc. - I have included only the bug number and summary. Some of the summaries are rather cryptic. Contact me if you are concerned about a particular bug. - There are some omissions. In particular, bugs in the sample programs, ViewEdit and Mouser are not included. If you are aware of serious bugs which are not included, let me know right away. - Not all of these bugs will be fixed in 2.0 final. Some are enhancement requests; some are debatable; some raise broader architectural issues. - Some of these bugs are still under investigation. Don't infer too much from the summary. We may decide after investigation that something isn't a bug after all. BRC No: 29431 ------------- Adorned shadow on a control is not printed. BRC No: 31550 ------------- After wraparound in a TEView with non-zero bottom inset, only part of the second line is displayed. BRC No: 34719 ------------- TView.CenterInSuperView and other layout methods would be nice. TWindow.Center could be an override. BRC No: 36018 ------------- TView should override Clone in order to clone subviews. BRC No: 39108 ------------- MacApp should not use the console device. BRC No: 40834 ------------- The application signature should be a parameter to IApplication, and the default DoMakeDocument should use this value. Alternatively, kSignature should be removed from Nothing.p BRC No: 41271 ------------- Posemodally should be a window method (?) BRC No: 41273 ------------- It is unnecessarily difficult to filter the list of files shown in the Standard file dialog. BRC No: 45983 ------------- Design flaw in TDocument.DoMenuCommand (use of fSaveExists to determine whether RequestFileName should be called) BRC No: 45985 ------------- TTEView.ScrollSelectionIntoView fails if the TEView is not visible, because it relies on focusing. BRC No: 46096 ------------- Printing Demotext documents to an imagewriter will occassionally result in the I-Beam cursor getting printed also. BRC No: 46100 ------------- During document view creation, TView.AdjustSize does not get called if the view is not attached to a printhandler. BRC No: 46103 ------------- An extra blank page is printed if fSizedeterminer = sizeFillPages and fPrintHandler.fFixedSizePages = FALSE. In this case, ComputeSize should loop calling DoBreakFollowing. BRC No: 46385 ------------- Under A/UX, the cursor changes to the watch while tracking, even in menus and controls. BRC No: 46712 ------------- TWindow.AdaptToScreen doesn't account for window location - the bottom right can end up off-screen. BRC No: 48615 ------------- On a Kanji system, the font doesn't get set to a Kanji font in an unstyled version of DemoText. BRC No: 48945 ------------- TTEView.SynchView only updates the text if the line heights have changed. If a program modifies the text directly, ForceRedraw has to be called. BRC No: 49695 ------------- TEvtHandler.DoCreateViews doesn't work if views are specified in breadth-first order. BRC No: 49702 ------------- If an application is launched from a floppy which is then ejected, when the alert requests that the disk be inserted, repeatedly pressing command-period causes a crash. BRC No: 49704 ------------- Unique signatures should be reserved for the sample applications and supported by the build process. BRC No: 49705 ------------- Without the DA Handler, the close menu item closes a DA window, but Command-W does not. BRC No: 49706 ------------- In TEViews, right justified italics is chopped off at the edge of the view. BRC No: 49794 ------------- The -linkmap and -linkXRef options to MABuild are not included in the Commando dialog. BRC No: 49795 ------------- The text item in the default about box is a bit too small for the Kanji default font. BRC No: 50431 ------------- When switching out in MultiFinder, MacApp commits command objects which affect the clipboard, rather than checking if the scrap has changed when switching back in. BRC No: 50432 ------------- It is potentially problematic having Page SetUp as an undoable command, since the view and printer driver context can change. BRC No: 50433 ------------- When quitting an application with multiple unsaved documents, the save alerts are displayed before the windows are updated. As such, the user cannot see the contents of the document which is in question of being saved. BRC No: 51223 ------------- TView.WriteToDeskScrap doesn't write subviews. BRC No: 51224 ------------- TDocument.DoMakeViews disregards the print info saved with a document, and restores the default print info. BRC No: 51350 ------------- TWindow.Center is inaccurate. BRC No: 51386 ------------- The comment for fIdleFreq in UMacApp.p is incorrect. (0 does not mean no idle) BRC No: 51388 ------------- A -needsMC68020 application crashes before user code on a 68000 machine (If built with MPW 3.0 Pascal) BRC No: 51503 ------------- MABuild -statusonly fails if the Makeit file does not exist. BRC No: 51504 ------------- The MacApp debugger should accept expressions in the "D" option, and check for invalid input. BRC No: 51505 ------------- MacApp samples crash into Macsbug with CHK break, if built with the options: "-DebugTheDebugger -Bottleneck -RangeCheck". BRC No: 51617 ------------- TApplication.TrackMouse method is wrong if theCommand.fView is NIL during all tracking phases. BRC No: 51641 ------------- If you have a TDialogView with multiple TEditText views, and the views have different fMaxChars lengths, then you will get a bogus program break when tabbing from a smaller TEditText view to a larger one. BRC No: 51727 ------------- MABuild -autobuild -nodebug -notemplateviews fails, because the target folder name is '.' BRC No: 51728 ------------- Application hangs if Print… is chosen while stopped in the debugger. BRC No: 51770 ------------- If aWindow.fIsClosable for any open window is FALSE, MacApp gets caught in an infinite loop during TApplication.Close. BRC No: 51880 ------------- In TApplication.PerformCommand (HdlDoIt), fCmdNumber is referenced after the command object has been freed. BRC No: 52716 ------------- UMacApp.TApplication.p should release mbar resource rather than calling DisposIfHandle. BRC No: 52717 ------------- The comment in TSortedList.Compare should read "compares TWO items" not "compares to items". BRC No: 52718 ------------- The ProgramBreak in TGridView.SetColWidth refers to SetColHeight instead of SetColWidth. BRC No: 52719 ------------- ITEView calls BeInScroller(GetScroller(FALSE)), which is inappropriate when a TEView is nested in other views. TTEView.IRes doesn't call BeInScroller. BRC No: 52720 ------------- TEvtHandler.DoMultiClick uses an OR instead of an AND. BRC No: 52836 ------------- The default window size limits limit the size of a window to the size of the main screen, rather than the gray region. BRC No: 52837 ------------- TPopup.DoMouseCommand puts the top left corner of the selected item next to the labelRect rather than over the menuRect. For standard TPopups, this is the same. BRC No: 52865 ------------- Program Break when user enters close to maximum number of characters in EditText (and NumberText) fields. BRC No: 53537 ------------- In TDialogTEView.InstallEditText and TEditText.SetText, SynchView should be called after RecalcText. BRC No: 53538 ------------- TDialogTEView.RecalcText prevents autoscrolling of right-justified EditTexts. BRC No: 53539 ------------- TEditText.RestartEdit should call fTEView.ForceRedraw to invalidate the text, rather than using InvalRect on the control area, which assumes fTEView's focus is the same as its own. BRC No: 53540 ------------- TStaticText.IRes should initialize fRsrcID to kNoResource and fIndex to 0. These fields could be eliminated as they are not used after the text is set. BRC No: 53541 ------------- There are some unused local variables in TTEView.CalcMinSize. BRC No: 53542 ------------- DrawContents should not propagate failure, because an endless loop can result due to the update when the alert is dismissed. Silently failing isn't the solution, however. BRC No: 53543 ------------- For pageUp/pageDown keys, it would be more useful to have the target of the Inspector window be the object view. BRC No: 53544 ------------- VerboseIsObject bombs with a non-object handle like a region handle, because GetClassID fails. BRC No: 53545 ------------- TCtlMgr.WhileFocussed calls Focus unnecessarily when redraw is false. BRC No: 53546 ------------- TSScrollbar.Activate should be conditioned on IsFocussed, rather than relying on "gFocusedView = SELF" kludge in TCtlMgr.WhileFocused. BRC No: 53547 ------------- The FOR loop in TTEView.CalcMinSize is redundant because ComputeSize performs this function. BRC No: 53548 ------------- The "about" command name is set in TApplication.DoSetUpMenus. It could be done once, when the menus are read in. BRC No: 53549 ------------- Globals used by DoShowAboutAppFilter need to be explained/named g…/moved to VAR section of unit or put in interface. BRC No: 53550 ------------- TApplication.GetRsrcWindow calls SetWRefCon before checking aWMgrWindow for NIL. This assumes SetWRefCon can handle a nil parameter nicely. BRC No: 53551 ------------- TApplication.HandleUpdateEvent has an extra BEGIN..END; BRC No: 53552 ------------- Redundant code surrounded by {$IFC FALSE} in TPopUp.ReleasePopUp and TPopup.SetPopUp. BRC No: 53553 ------------- TDialogView.DeselectCurrentEditText is in the wrong place in the source. (It Should appear before DismissDialog.) BRC No: 53554 ------------- TPopup.IPopup should call FailResError instead of FailNILResource, like IRes. BRC No: 53555 ------------- TPopup.DoMouseCommand needs a failure handler in case DoChoice fails. BRC No: 53556 ------------- TEditText.StartEdit should exit if theTEView is nil, even in the non- debug case. BRC No: 53557 ------------- TDialogView.MakeTEView: The system call SetClikLoop _cannot_ be used to set the clikProc of the TERecord, because the default clikproc does not follow the Pascal Parameter passing conventions that this procedure expects. BRC No: 53558 ------------- TTEView.CalcSelLoc returns a bogus vertical coordinate when the StyledTextEdit record you pass to it has no characters in it. BRC No: 53559 ------------- TTEView.CalcSelLoc might be more useful if selectionRect were a VRect BRC No: 53560 ------------- Modifications to TTEView.ScrollSelectionIntoView: BRC No: 53561 ------------- TEditText should give more feedback than a beep when maxchars is exceeded. The check should be done in the Validate method. BRC No: 53562 ------------- There should be a VRectsNest function. BRC No: 53563 ------------- The description of TApplication.HandleMouseUp in UMacApp.p refers to the non-existent gEventInfo. BRC No: 53623 ------------- BusyDelay has a redundant IF statement. The comment in the interface file is truncated. BRC No: 53624 ------------- TView.DoneViewRsrc could use SetPermHandleSize instead of SetHandle size and FailMemError, and the setting of the PermAllocation flag is not strictly necessary here. BRC No: 53625 ------------- TView.AddSubView sets fNextHandler twice. BRC No: 53626 ------------- Assertion should ALWAYS call Failure, even in non-debug mode. BRC No: 53627 ------------- Stepping over in the debugger doesn't break at the end of a method. pStackSpace should be updated in %_EP BRC No: 53628 ------------- "Space to step over stack" doesn't work if breakpoints are set. BRC No: 53629 ------------- The debugger should have a way to show the current status without listing all the possible commands, scrolling the status out of view. BRC No: 53630 ------------- If the performance Monitor is on and the Performance tools are "E"nded, the Perfmonitor still shows as being on. BRC No: 53631 ------------- DebugPerfMonitor: The private global pPerfControl is not necessary as it duplicates the function of PerfControl. BRC No: 53632 ------------- In MABuild.script, when expanding the active environment vars into the make file, the line "SET SrcApp {XMakeitRedirection}" is duplicated unnecessarily. BRC No: 53634 ------------- Calc's splash screen leaves heap fragmented. BRC No: 53635 ------------- TGridView.Draw shouldn't subtract 1 from bottom and right of draw area. BRC No: 53636 ------------- TGridView.VPointToLastCell compares cell coordinates to QuickDraw coordinates (apples and oranges) BRC No: 53637 ------------- References to gCodeReserve etc in UMemory.p should be to pCodeReserve etc. Also should read pSzCodeReserve - (the total size of all temporary objects in memory [at that time]). BRC No: 53747 ------------- Attempting to select a gridview cell for which CanSelect returns false causes the current selection to be deselected. BRC No: 53748 ------------- TScrollbar should be "deadstripsuppressed" BRC No: 53750 ------------- NewTemplateWindow should check that the root view is a window, and fail gracefully if it isn't. BRC No: 53751 ------------- FailNIL on missing clipboard window or view gives confusing "not enough memory" alert. BRC No: 53752 ------------- It should be possible to prevent TDialogView.PoseModally from committing the last command if fDismisser is fCancelItem, or if the command requiring the dialog is itself not undoable. BRC No: 53753 ------------- MABuild doesn't support spaces in the "OtherViewTypesSrc = " path name. BRC No: 53754 ------------- TView.Update should have a failure handler. BRC No: 53755 ------------- TCtlMgr.Free calls SizeControl which calls HideControl, but coordinates are wrong. It would be better to set the clip region to zero. BRC No: 53756 ------------- It would be preferable for TGridView.IRes to insert the columns first, then the rows. BRC No: 53757 ------------- TTEView.Idle should not flash the cursor if the view is disabled. BRC No: 53758 ------------- GetSaveInfo/MakeNewCopy let the user save a document over a document with the same name, even if the type and creator bytes are different. BRC No: 53760 ------------- Applications have been known to crash printing multiple documents from the Finder. BRC No: 53815 ------------- MABuild doesn't support more than one user library, due to a quoting problem. BRC No: 53816 ------------- TButton.SetText(s,TRUE) stuffs the text, but also redraws the button outline and causes the whole thing to flash. BRC No: 53817 ------------- GetClassNameFromID bombs for names of length > 63 BRC No: 53818 ------------- The call to GetEvent in TApplication.UpdateAllWindows ignores app4Events. BRC No: 53821 ------------- TWindow.ForceOnScreen doesn't. BRC No: 53922 ------------- TTEView.SynchView relies on ScrollSelectionIntoView to focus. ScrollSelectionIntoView does not attempt to focus unless there is a scroller. BRC No: 53923 ------------- TrapExists in UMacAppUtilities.inc1.p is incorrect for traps in range $AA00-ABFF BRC No: 53924 ------------- GetMenuColors in UDialog.inc1.p dereferences gdh without checking for nil. BRC No: 54112 ------------- If the DrawContents method fails after the BeginUpdate, the call to EndUpdate will never happen. The application can get into an infinite loop, displaying 'failed..not enough memory', while trying to update a window that can not be updated. BRC No: 54130 ------------- "Fix" in TTEView.StuffText gets rid of style info by setting runs[1].startchar, but doesn't adjust nRuns or nStyles. BRC No: 54131 ------------- MacAppTypes.r does not conditionally auto-include Types.r BRC No: 54132 ------------- UMacAppUtilities places code in segment MAIN. People using C and C++ libraries run out of space in MAIN. BRC No: 54284 ------------- PoseModally doesn't bring its window to the top when it is called. BRC No: 54358 ------------- Calling SwapMMUMode in a debug MacApp program with MacroMaker and 32-bit QD installed causes a crash. BRC No: 54444 ------------- TView should have GetIdentifer and SetIdentifier methods BRC No: 54445 ------------- TApplication.PerformCommand won't perform the same pre- allocated undoable command twice in succession because it checks IF command <> gLastCommand. BRC No: 54446 ------------- TWindow.Activate calls update before INHERITED Activate, so subviews get update messages before they're activated. BRC No: 54447 ------------- With a DA open in the application heap, you can enter the MacApp debugger, but it won't accept any keystrokes. BRC No: 54448 ------------- Autoscrolling in GridViews stops when the mouse's coordinates go outside of the view's extent. BRC No: 54449 ------------- TStdPrintHandler.BanishPrintDialog and FreeWmgrWindow should invalidate the focus when setting the port to gWorkPort BRC No: 54450 ------------- PinVRect is off-by-one at bottom-right BRC No: 54451 ------------- The documentation doesn't state that OtherViewTypesSrc should be set in the make file. BRC No: 54452 ------------- TApplication.SetTarget should check if the new target is different from the current target before doing its thing BRC No: 54453 ------------- TTranscriptView.InstallTextStyle doesn't correctly restore the port BRC No: 54454 ------------- TWindow.SetTitle should only call SetWTitle if the newTitle is different from the current title BRC No: 54455 ------------- TPopup.DrawPopupBox doesn't correctly include the outermost pixel of all the menuRect's edges in its SectRect test. BRC No: 54456 ------------- TPopup.SetCurrentItem (..kRedraw) fails AssumeFocused. It should either focus before calling GetQDExtent, or just call ForceRedraw instead of trying to directly redraw the popup box itself. BRC No: 54457 ------------- On small screens, it would be nice if the debug window could be brought to the front by "Show Debug Window", and prevented from going to the back, especially during single-stepping. BRC No: 54458 ------------- FreeIfObject is usually called while handling a failure - perhaps it should do IF IsObject(obj) THEN obj.Free ELSE ProgramBreak rather than signalling failure with FailNonObject. BRC No: 54459 ------------- The last two pages of an image were printed blank on a LaserWriter IISC. BRC No: 54460 ------------- A file cannot be made -d option dependent in .MAMake, nor can separate folders be created following -d options. BRC No: 54461 ------------- When a view is removed from a still-open hierarchy, the window's fTarget and gTarget are not checked for validity. BRC No: 54462 ------------- There is insufficient support for adding/removing views in already- open view hierarchies. BRC No: 54463 ------------- TScroller should override ForceRedraw to also force its scrollbars to redraw. They are created behind your back, so should be considered part of the scroller. BRC No: 54464 ------------- TView.BeInScroller should call itsScroller.SetScrollLimits with FALSE for the "drawScrollBars" parameter BRC No: 54465 ------------- MABuild should have an option to link with CRunTime.o rather than RunTime.o to support those who have C or C++ code, but a Pascal main program. BRC No: 54466 ------------- MABuild should pass the compile-time variables TRUE=1 and FALSE=0 to C and C++. Types.h only defines true and false (lowercase). BRC No: 54467 ------------- SectVRect returns true when the rectangles are just touching (bottom of one = top of other), unlike B5 and the toolbox' SectRect.