Gfx bug: Moving component while tooltip is open (0.9.2)

Shifrin · 19 Mar 2005

Wow, that's a sneaky one Frits 😉

Shif.

malc · 19 Mar 2005

Hi Frits,

Is there a "Find an obscure SynthMaker bug" competition running that I don't know about? 😉

Joking aside, it's great that you're finding all these things - much appreciated. The tooltip should really cancel as soon as you press a key - this would solve the problem.

Many thanks.

kingtubby · 21 Mar 2005

I don't get any tooltips - Am I missing something?

Mart

malc · 21 Mar 2005

Hi Mart,

If you hover your mouse over a component and leave it in the same place for a couple of seconds you should get a yellow pop-up window with descriptive text about the component. Does this not appear then?

kingtubby · 21 Mar 2005

malc wrote: Does this not appear then?

No, nothing at all - I feel like I'm missing out 😉

malc · 21 Mar 2005

How strange. It should work for components in the toolbox and in the schematic. Do you get it in the toolbox? I'm guessing not.

kingtubby · 21 Mar 2005

malc wrote: Do you get it in the toolbox? I'm guessing not.

No, zilch. BTW, I can also replicate the bug that Zynewave started this thread with. To elaborate - If I drag a component onto an empty schematic then move it using the cursor keys, a 'ghost' copy will appear elsewhere on the schematic. When I say 'ghost' I mean that it's not a useable component because when I click on it it disappears.

Mart

malc · 21 Mar 2005

Presumably you're not hovering the mouse over the component and waiting for the pop-up like Zynewave then. You just drag a component in then immediately move it around with the cursor keys?

Is the ghost image in the same place as the component was when you first dragged it in or does it appear at some random position?

Thanks Mart.

kingtubby · 21 Mar 2005

malc wrote: Presumably you're not hovering the mouse over the component and waiting for the pop-up like Zynewave then. You just drag a component in then immediately move it around with the cursor keys?

Sorry, you're right - I should have specified that - It's not quite the same as Zynewaves BR.

malc wrote: Is the ghost image in the same place as the component was when you first dragged it in or does it appear at some random position?

It appears to be random.

Mart

malc · 21 Mar 2005

Do you have any other applications running at the same time? If so can you try it with just SynthMaker running.

I'm confused about how this could be a random position. Bit of a long shot but is there any pattern to the randomness by any chance?

kingtubby · 21 Mar 2005

malc wrote: Do you have any other applications running at the same time? If so can you try it with just SynthMaker running.

I'm confused about how this could be a random position. Bit of a long shot but is there any pattern to the randomness by any chance?

Interesting malc - I have a few programs running in the background; AVG anti-virus, Zonealarm and so on - I turned them all off and hey-presto! everything is fine. I even get the tooltips displaying 🙂. Anyway, with Synthmaker still running I turned on and off each of the other programs, one by one and narrowed down the culprit to a little program called 'Down2Home' which monitors broadband bandwidth usage. Whenever it's running it causes the aforementioned problems with SM, when turned off everything is normal. I've uninstalled Down2Home now 'cos I didn't really need it anyway. 😀

Mart

malc · 21 Mar 2005

That's excellent news.

The reason I suggested this is because I had a similar problem a while back and traced it to a web browser I was using. With certain pages open the SM's redrawing went a bit haywire. It's as if it's forcing screen redraws even when it's not the active application.

Anyway I'm glad you're ok now. I'll need to look into why this happens at some point but it's a fairly obscure problem that's easy enough to work around.