From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: AE Responses from Mike Loader
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:16:00 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)


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Date: 12 Jan 93 10:00:26 EST
From: Michael Loader <76004.1676@CompuServe.COM>
To: <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
Subject: Re: Bugs/comments on Art Expression/BME
Message-Id: <930112150026_76004.1676_CHN80-1@CompuServe.COM>

Some replies to post back to Doug Dyer...

Art Expression Comments

We are working on preferences printing. We are unable to crash AE when
printing to preferences, but have had several reports of this. At this
point, we can only recommend the following: set the paper size in prefs
to the same size as the page size in AE. Set scaling to integer. We
hope to have more information and improved preferences printing in the
near future.

Saving / loading DR2D: that is fixed in AE 1.02 which will be mailed
free of charge to all registered AE 1.0 and 1.01 owners starting
next week.

Coordinates freeze with Draw tool: fixed AE1.02.

Freehand tool, Esc key doesn't work: that is a new bug, thanks for
reporting it. We'll try to get that fixed in the next version after
1.02.

Pie slice requester and different font: new bug. I'll put on list.

Sliders: that is not a strange lack of sliders, in our opinion. Sliders
are inappropriate interface gadgets for the situations you mentioned.
(i.e., polygon number of sides.) We hope to use popup menus (like in
the HotLinks Publish requester.) Popup menus and cycle gadgets are
a superior way to do this, but cycle gadgets shouldn't be used for
more than 2 or 3 choices, so popup menus should be used.

Sample graphics: shipping duplicated the HotLinks Editions version
of BME instead of the Art Expression version of BME (the AE one
has the sample graphics, but the program is the same) by mistake
for a few copies of 1.01. If you want these graphics, please call
tech support or email us (CIS 76004,1676, GEnie SL-TECH) and we
will send you a replacement disk. (You must be registered.)

Add point: it is senseless to add a button to the toolbox for this
when adding a point is so simple (Alt click on path). Using a tool
for this would make the toolbox prettier, but would decrease the
functionality of the program.

Grouping: our user testing showed that grouping is better accomplished
via the keyboard. If you can have one hand on the mouse and the other
on the keyboard, it is easier to hit 'g' than to choose a tool. Most
professionals and beginners find that constant trips to the toolbox
slow down work. Totally iconic interfaces (like on German Atari
programs) are not the way to go.

Default font: we plan on changing this in the next major version.

Michael - Soft-Logik Publishing