4.60 Text etc.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:30 pm
Hi Eric
I downloaded the two new versions! There are a still a few things I've found:
In Cocoa, text is having trouble – Left, Centre and Right justification do not work properly because it seems that the program is only picking up the first line of a block of text instead of all of it:
Also this causes the program to stall, with the clock icon (not the spinning wheel) coming on indefinitely. You can resolve this by selecting another tool or in fact by just mousing over the Tools pallet..
Text (even a single line) is also difficult to type as it keeps disappearing when you select it and start to type – so you don't know where you are.
In Carbon a block of text is better but still not correct:
So justification works – but aligning several text blocks (say a single line of text with a triple line of text) to the bottom doesn't work accurately.
Same clock icon problem.
In Cocoa, Save also brings the clock icon on indefinitely – again you can resolve it by selecting a tool etc.
In both versions, the line tools don't currently work with the command line in L-mode. X-mode and D-mode do work. In L-mode the line simply disappears after you enter the data. Doesn't exist if you hit ⌘A.
And you can no longer use the Delete key to delete text in a command line box – if you make a mistake entering data for example – which is a bit of a pain.
And a question I know the basic difference between cocoa and carbon, only in that cocoa has gradually replaced carbon as the Mac API. Is the carbon version of RealCADD for Mac's running OSX 10.7 or lower and cocoa 10.8 or greater. Is one 32bit and the other 64bit? Both run Ok on my laptop with 10.11.5 and Carbon doesn't seem to be slower, though I haven't tried on a very large drawing yet. Should Cocoa be faster and drawings port better to iPocket Draw?
Cheers -- George
I downloaded the two new versions! There are a still a few things I've found:
In Cocoa, text is having trouble – Left, Centre and Right justification do not work properly because it seems that the program is only picking up the first line of a block of text instead of all of it:
Also this causes the program to stall, with the clock icon (not the spinning wheel) coming on indefinitely. You can resolve this by selecting another tool or in fact by just mousing over the Tools pallet..
Text (even a single line) is also difficult to type as it keeps disappearing when you select it and start to type – so you don't know where you are.
In Carbon a block of text is better but still not correct:
So justification works – but aligning several text blocks (say a single line of text with a triple line of text) to the bottom doesn't work accurately.
Same clock icon problem.
In Cocoa, Save also brings the clock icon on indefinitely – again you can resolve it by selecting a tool etc.
In both versions, the line tools don't currently work with the command line in L-mode. X-mode and D-mode do work. In L-mode the line simply disappears after you enter the data. Doesn't exist if you hit ⌘A.
And you can no longer use the Delete key to delete text in a command line box – if you make a mistake entering data for example – which is a bit of a pain.
And a question I know the basic difference between cocoa and carbon, only in that cocoa has gradually replaced carbon as the Mac API. Is the carbon version of RealCADD for Mac's running OSX 10.7 or lower and cocoa 10.8 or greater. Is one 32bit and the other 64bit? Both run Ok on my laptop with 10.11.5 and Carbon doesn't seem to be slower, though I haven't tried on a very large drawing yet. Should Cocoa be faster and drawings port better to iPocket Draw?
Cheers -- George