Version 9.4 Released

[Programmer]

Hi Greg, If you wanted to download the previous version you can still do so by getting it from CNET (the link is on the downloads page). However, in the version I just uploaded (9.4.1.7) I think I have fixed the issue so maybe you could try that first. The fixes and improvements in this new version are:

1) The space bar dealing works properly when the deck is parked. If shuffling is in progress the first click stops the shuffle, the second click launches the deck again.

2) Dealing a spread with the "shuffle before dealing" option activated works the same as when the deck is not parked.

3) The scroll bar issue is fixed, although I haven't tested it on Windows 7. It seems that under Windows 7 the scroll wheel event was always sent to the popup form, whereas with Windows 10 it either goes to the card or to the popup form depending on that setting I mentioned (to do with scrolling inactive windows). I have now put the relevant code in BOTH places, so I am assuming that depending on your set up it will either fire in one place or the other but never in both.

4) When you create a reading with multiple decks the reading wizard lets you choose which decks to include.

5) I fixed the bug with gathering to a new deck when the option of a default start up deck has been set.

Hope I am right about all this!

[Greg the Yeti]

Hi,
that's an impressive list of fixes! Thanks for your work!

I'll download that straight away, but I notice that the download page still gives the version number as 9.4.1.6.

Regards Greg the Yeti

[Greg the Yeti]

Hi Richard,
some good news, some not so good...

1) Sorry Space Bar Dealing within the Parked Deck is NOT working right (on Win 7).
The first Space Bar Deals a card, the second stops the shuffle - as it did before. This isn't a problem at the moment, but if and when you get to implementing my "Space Bar Loading of a Spread" it WILL be a problem, so it's perhaps good if sometime it can be fixed.
If this seems to be working for you, but not for me (on Win 7) then perhaps the different operation of clicks, focuses and hovers in Win 10 is causing a "Di-Vergence in the Force" here as well??

2) "Dealing a spread with the "shuffle before dealing" option activated", wasn't an option I used, but I tested it for you and it does seem to work.
Are you getting this confused into the "Spacebar Loading of a Spread" issue???
Like I said, I've never previously used this option.
(edit: Since this option probably starts a standard Shuffle and I regularly use a more intensive shuffle ("New Random Deck" - Ctrl+Shift+R - followed by a "Seeded Shuffle") I probably won't leave this option enabled, because it will leave the Deck not so well "Tuned to the Situation"!)

3) Scroll Bar issue is fixed and works in both normal mode and when calling up a stored reading. Excellent! This was a "Make or Break" issue! I won't have to go over to the "Dark Side" yet!

4) Reading Wizard - works with Multiple Decks, as I had requested. Excellent! I love this!

5) Gathering to a New Deck, now works as it should and loaded them up in the same type of Deck. Excellent!

Only that issue in point 1) is other than Excellent! I hope other people start to realise some of these excellent new features and use them as often as I will!

Regards
Greg the Yeti
and a big Thankyou!

P.S. - I've started a detailed Store of all versions, very clearly labelled, which is which!

[Programmer]

OK, as far as point 1 goes I thought it was working and it isn't, so nothing to do with Windows versions anyway. I will look at it again.

The "always shuffle before dealing a spread" was connected to the idea of continual shuffling. It was a suggestion a while back from another user but I think it must have been in an email rather than on the forum. With the option activated, at the moment you decide to click the deck and stop the shuffle you deal a whole spread. Sort of like the space bar dealing during a shuffle but with a whole spread (although not one card a time which is yet to be implemented).

[Greg the Yeti]

Hi Richard,
as noted elsewhere I've upgraded to the new 9.4.1.8 to comment on the improved SVG graphics.

Here I note that "Scrolling" is once again an issue. (With Win 7?)

With a Deck with long notes these are not all visible in the Notes "Pop Up", although the Pop-Up moves "as though" it were scrolling. The rest of the notes is just not there...

Checking elsewhere - those notes were visible and correct in the Saved Reading Wizard, and visible and correctly scrolling when the reading is recalled (green background).

So the bug is not the same as before, but definitely a bug. I checked with another Deck with long notes and exactly the same happens there. There is SOME scrolling and some of the notes are there, however the later part of the notes is once again Missing...

Regards

[Programmer]

Hey Greg, I know from my email alerts that you posted in the last couple of days but today I really won the prize for stupidity... I am working on another new project which requires a forum and while trying to set that up I kept having to delete all the tables in that database and start again, and while doing that I made the fat finger error of accidentally deleting this whole forum by mistake(!!). Luckily the hosting company I use are awesome so they managed to restore everything but a couple of recent posts might have been lost. A million apologies because there is nothing worse than having to type out something twice but if you can post again that would be cool (I didn't actually have the chance to see what you put, I just saw you posted).

[Programmer]

BTW I fixed that scrolling issue I think now, and I uploaded a new version. The trouble is that .NET doesn't really contain a reliable method for calculating how long a block of text will appear when it is shown on screen, the built in method makes loads of compensations for different fonts and stuff and I am not even sure it calculates paragraph breaks right. I fixed it so the height of the text in the pop-up form is now always 10% more than the .NET says it should be. I tested it with the longest notes I could and it seems ok, the only drawback is there might be a blank area at the end of the notes.

[Greg the Yeti]

Yes that does seem to have fixed the scrolling problem.

Regards
Greg the Yeti