Please tell us what your experience has been with Do-more...

[Mike Nash]

One more question on toolbar icon modifications:

Do they all go away on loading the next version, i.e. 1.4.0 or 1.3.2 even? That would hurt, if I spend much time on this.

OK, two questions:

Is there a way to share these mods between computers?

[plcnut]

I believe all you have to do is copy and paste the .ini file.

[franji1]

One more question on toolbar icon modifications:

Do they all go away on loading the next version, i.e. 1.4.0 or 1.3.2 even? That would hurt, if I spend much time on this.

OK, two questions:

Is there a way to share these mods between computers?

Not sure if they will go away and reset back to their defaults.  Also, there is no way to import/export the graphics.

As you found out on your own, I was able to copy a DirectSOFT Rel 5 button into Designer (as you did with Rel 4).  You might be losing the "transparent" pixel.  When grayed, a button's non-transparent pixels are drawn dark gray, all transparent pixels remain transparent.  So it appears that your transparent pixels became non-transparent, and hence when "grayed", looks like a square.

[Mike Nash]

As you found out on your own, I was able to copy a DirectSOFT Rel 5 button into Designer (as you did with Rel 4).  You might be losing the "transparent" pixel.  When grayed, a button's non-transparent pixels are drawn dark gray, all transparent pixels remain transparent.  So it appears that your transparent pixels became non-transparent, and hence when "grayed", looks like a square.

I played with it some more and was able to get the grayed out "look" pretty decent. It is a lot of work though - especially since I am not sure what it is that I am doing that is working.

Text is looking better all the time, but the old DS4 small icons sure are nicely compact.

It sure looks like DS4 used multiple sets of icons for the various states as it has colors even for the disabled icons.

Thanks!

[Controls Guy]

I'm sorry, but multi-part quoting looks a bit tedious from this end.

It's actually not too bad.  Just enclose each quoted snippet with '[ quote ]' and '[ /quote ]'  (remove the spaces, obviously, and it doesn't get you the attribution, but big woop).

I also use a Firefox plug-in called BBCode Xtra or Html Xtra or something like that on some other boards that will allow you to swipe across blocks of text and apply html codes for blockquote, italics, bold, etc., and it has commands for BBCode in addition to the html ones.

[Controls Guy]

Having some weird issue with updates.  Check for updates, says there are two help files where I'm at 1.3.1.1 and 1.3.1.2 is available.  Download, click "Yes" to update, it tells me to exit DMD and click "Retry", I do so, and it just keeps reverting to that same dialog telling me to quit DMD and click Retry.

[franji1]

Having some weird issue with updates.  Check for updates, says there are two help files where I'm at 1.3.1.1 and 1.3.1.2 is available.  Download, click "Yes" to update, it tells me to exit DMD and click "Retry", I do so, and it just keeps reverting to that same dialog telling me to quit DMD and click Retry.

Try rebooting and try again.

[Stephen]

Having some weird issue with updates.  Check for updates, says there are two help files where I'm at 1.3.1.1 and 1.3.1.2 is available.  Download, click "Yes" to update, it tells me to exit DMD and click "Retry", I do so, and it just keeps reverting to that same dialog telling me to quit DMD and click Retry.

I tried to duplicate it per your description, but it's working properly for me. When I got to the point where I closed DmD and clicked "Retry", the installation completed successfully. The only thing I know of that would cause that behavior is another open DmD window. Even having a DmD 1.2 window open while trying to update 1.3 would cause that dialog to show up (all it's looking for is a running DmDesigner.exe process).

[Controls Guy]

Don't think there were any other instances running, but trying again after a reboot seems to have done the trick.  Thanks!

[Stephen]

Don't think there were any other instances running, but trying again after a reboot seems to have done the trick.  Thanks!

As ever, the sage words of Roy from the IT Crowd save the day.



Reminds me of a recent trip overseas that I took. We were waiting at the gate to board the 747, and the announcer came over the PA to announce that, no joke, they had to "restart the plane" because there was a glitch in the electrical system. Must have been running Windows.

[Controls Guy]

LOL, no doubt!

[Controls Guy]

When I download a file that creates messages (not even "Warnings"), I'm notified and given the chance to proceed with the download or cancel.  There is also a check box which is supposed to cause it to download all files with no errors, but even if I check the box, the next time I download, the dialog still appears and the box is unchecked.  Bug?  Or am I doing something wrong?

[BobO]

Sounds like a bug.

[franji1]

It's not a bug.  That flag is maintained per session, by design.  If during this session, if you say "don't notify me again", we don't bother you again for that specific Designer session.

The question was how long do we maintain that state.  What if you create 100 new warnings?  Don't bother letting you know in the middle of a runtime edit?  Which warnings/messages from 5 months ago do you need to not care about and which new ones do you need to know?  If we made that checkbox lifetime last a lifetime, there might be some critical warnings that you would miss in the middle of that 2AM runtime edit.

Hence, we decided that the lifetime of that checkbox was ONLY during that session.  Not a global option.  Not a part of the project.

BTW, we have implemented a much better mechanism for handling the root issue - that there are some messages (and even warnings) you KNOW that you do not need to care about.  In the next release, you will be able to IGNORE any specific message or warning at one of 4 different scopes:

• Rung Level
• Code-Block Level
• Project Level
• Global Level (across all projects on that PC)

Once you can do THAT, you can intelligently ignore specific warnings/messages, and if the Program Check at Download dialog DOES come up, you may want to re-visit that code and/or tweak the "ignored" state of those specific rule "violations".  (You can still "ignore" it during that session).

[plcnut]

I always have that message for the first download to each processor after starting DMD. I figured it was meant to be that way...