Timelab question
Is there a way to change the escape key in Timelab so that it doesn't default to "yes"? I love Timelab, but this is driving me nuts. I hit the escape key and it asks me if I really want to exit. No, I don't! So, I hit the escape key and yes, it does exit.
Bob
Is there a way to change the escape key in Timelab so that it doesn't default
to "yes"? I love Timelab, but this is driving me nuts. I hit the escape key and
it asks me if I really want to exit. No, I don't! So, I hit the escape key and
yes, it does exit.
Bob
Hmm. I can't repro this on Win7 x64 -- what version of Windows are you running?
If I hit Escape followed by Enter, it does exit, since 'Yes' is the default choice. But hitting Escape twice doesn't do anything (and shouldn't).
-- john
Miles Design LLC
John,
I apologize. I was mistaken in my question. Under wine it behaves poorly, but that's to be expected. Under XP in a Virtual box, it works as you say. The same in a real Win 10 box. The problem is actually that I was expecting the "No" box to be checked, and to require the user to change it to "Yes" if he really wanted to exit. So, if I press the Enter key to get rid of the dialog box, the program exits.
Bob
From: John Miles <john@miles.io>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 12:39 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Timelab question
Is there a way to change the escape key in Timelab so that it doesn't default
to "yes"? I love Timelab, but this is driving me nuts. I hit the escape key and
it asks me if I really want to exit. No, I don't! So, I hit the escape key and
yes, it does exit.
Bob
Hmm. I can't repro this on Win7 x64 -- what version of Windows are you running?
If I hit Escape followed by Enter, it does exit, since 'Yes' is the default choice. But hitting Escape twice doesn't do anything (and shouldn't).
-- john
Miles Design LLC
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John,
I apologize. I was mistaken in my question. Under wine it behaves poorly,
but that's to be expected. Under XP in a Virtual box, it works as you say. The
same in a real Win 10 box. The problem is actually that I was expecting the
"No" box to be checked, and to require the user to change it to "Yes" if he
really wanted to exit. So, if I press the Enter key to get rid of the dialog box,
the program exits.
I see what you mean. I've got a couple of other minor tweak requests lined up for the next beta, so I'll add MB_DEFBUTTON2 to those prompts to keep that from happening.
If Wine is interpreting a second Escape keypress as 'Yes', then that's definitely a bug on their part. Worth reporting to them if it still happens in the current version.
-- john
Miles Design LLC
Thanks, John. That will certainly get it to work as I expect it to. I doubt I'm the only one who's lost a dataset due to being distracted and hitting the enter key to clear the dialog box.
Wine is just a mess as far as Timelab is concerned. Most of the time it doesn't display the plot area. I've pretty much given up on it.
Bob
From: John Miles <john@miles.io>
To: 'Bob Stewart' bob@evoria.net; 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 3:56 PM
Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Timelab question
John,
I apologize. I was mistaken in my question. Under wine it behaves poorly,
but that's to be expected. Under XP in a Virtual box, it works as you say. The
same in a real Win 10 box. The problem is actually that I was expecting the
"No" box to be checked, and to require the user to change it to "Yes" if he
really wanted to exit. So, if I press the Enter key to get rid of the dialog box,
the program exits.
I see what you mean. I've got a couple of other minor tweak requests lined up for the next beta, so I'll add MB_DEFBUTTON2 to those prompts to keep that from happening.
If Wine is interpreting a second Escape keypress as 'Yes', then that's definitely a bug on their part. Worth reporting to them if it still happens in the current version.
-- john
Miles Design LLC
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Bob Stewart bob@evoria.net wrote:
Thanks, John. That will certainly get it to work as I expect it to. I doubt I'm the only one who's lost a dataset due to being distracted and hitting the enter key to clear the dialog box.
Wine is just a mess as far as Timelab is concerned. Most of the time it doesn't display the plot area. I've pretty much given up on it.
This, at least, is easily fixed; use "winetricks gdiplus" to replace
Wine's GDI+ implementation with Microsoft's (the native DLL). Then all
the stuff that didn't draw before will work just fine. It does have a
few other little issues, but on the whole it works remarkably well for
me.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the heads up. That seems to have done the trick! If you don't mind, I'm sending you a query about something else off-list.
Bob
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From: Andrew Rodland <andrew@cleverdomain.org>
To: Bob Stewart bob@evoria.net; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Timelab question
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Bob Stewart bob@evoria.net wrote:
Thanks, John. That will certainly get it to work as I expect it to. I doubt I'm the only one who's lost a dataset due to being distracted and hitting the enter key to clear the dialog box.
Wine is just a mess as far as Timelab is concerned. Most of the time it doesn't display the plot area. I've pretty much given up on it.
This, at least, is easily fixed; use "winetricks gdiplus" to replace
Wine's GDI+ implementation with Microsoft's (the native DLL). Then all
the stuff that didn't draw before will work just fine. It does have a
few other little issues, but on the whole it works remarkably well for
me.