...Perhaps those of us who use EasyABC could keep a list of bugs on a thread for the benefit of other
users and to provide feedback to the developers.
Cheers, Dave
Taking you at your word, here is a list of the bugettes I am currently aware of - in no particular order:
1) Metronome markings specified with Q: are not reproduced on the screen correctly. All is well up to
a marking of 127, then 128 appears as -128, 129 as -127, 130 as -126, etc. The tune play OK, ie: at the correct
speed, it's just that the metronome marking at the top of the score is wrong - puzzling. [AFAIK, this one
has only ben observed by me. 128 is 2**7 - hmm...]
2) 'Cutting and pasting' text, either
within an open file 'A', or from a
different open file 'B' fails
on the first open copy of file 'A'. I have to open a second copy of file 'A' before I can 'cut and paste'.
This seems to clear itself after a cold re-start - which is a bit of a pain. [AFAIK, this one has only been observed
by me, and so far, only on a Windows 10 machine. (check - does it occur on W7?)]
3) I have seen sudden spontaneous reductions of the size of the font in the ABC edit window. Both the text
and the line numbers are reduced in size with no input from me. When re-set using the 'change editor font'
option in the 'View' menu, only the code font is re-set, the line number font stays in its unwanted reduced
size. This can be fixed by doing a 'cold restart', but this is a pain as all options (eg: Midi instrument) have
to be re-selected... [AFAIK, this one has only been observed by me, and so far, only on a Windows 10 machine.
After choosing another Ghostscript implementation, I have so far not seen the problem - is it operating
system/Ghostscript sensitive?]
4) A Macintosh user has reported that he cannot import XML files generated by other software - I am not a
Mac user so I cannot reproduce this one, but I can re-import XML files which are generated by EasyABC itself.
5) Changes to behaviour when closing documents. After closing a named file, when I subsequently try to exit
EasyABC, I see a window asking if I wish to save changes to a (new) file 'Untitled x'. This has been reported
by others, and I/we believe it started happening with 1.3.7.1.
As Dave T says, none of these are major, but they are irritating, so once I've let these fester for the next couple
of weeks, to see whether they 'fix themselves'(*), I'll submit them to the maintainers. I thought I should run
'em past the 'body of the kirk' to see if anyone can suggest fixes, or come up with any additions to the list.
R
(*) ie: by an uncommon, but not unknown reversing of the more usual 'software rot' process