NetRemote Designer 0.9.4 (posted 20-Sep-2005)

[Ben S]

Hello everyone -
I've just made available NRD version 0.9.4.

Download here: Download link
Purchase a license during beta for 20% off here: Purchase link

There are still a few tweaks for bugs as well as some enhancements we'd like to make in order to call this iteration done (and being putting together our list for the next revision), but overall this version has many of the fixes and enhancements you all were asking for.

0.9.4.0 (24-Sep-2005)
1. Fixed - Error with Girder 3.3 not loading properly in some instances into action designer, breaking the load process.

0.9.3.0 (20-Sep-2005)
1. Fixed - Issue with opening a frame or button not using an image variable after opening one that does making options incorrect
2. Fixed - Problem with a glitch in an image stream making a file impossible to open (note that a "broken image" will need to be fixed, however)
3. Fixed - Adding images to the Designer locking them from changing
4. Fixed - Checkbox now available for frames and buttons for wrap (requires new version of NetRemote for full support)
5. Fixed - ID tags are now handled properly after loading and saving (removing a state, for instance, would break before because the ID tag would still be present)
6. Fixed - Problem with registration codes not working from our provider (for some reason)
7. Fixed - A corrupt registration process would throw an ugly error, instead of a nice message

0.9.2.0 (16-Sep-2005)
1. Fixed - Issues with not being able to edit ID Tag
2. Fixed - Panel hide not loading properly
3. Fixed - Wrap not working in NR and not saving properly.
4. Fixed - Copy actions from button to button
5. Fixed - Problem copying element where it doesn't parent properly.

0.9.1.0 (08-Sep-2005)
1. Fixed - Issue with editing lua (actions and file)
2. Fixed - Issue with copy/paste actions not working properly from context menu
3. Added - When working on a large resolution ccf, NRD will now not jump to the top of the scroll area after making a change.

0.9.0.0 (04-Sep-2005)
1. Fixed - F2 not working to go to properties with element selected
2. Fixed - Changing tabs still showing rubber band
3. Fixed - * not showing for new/changed files
4. Fixed - Problems when setting actions for hard keys
5. Fixed - Renaming a page not renaming tab
6. Fixed - Deleting a page not closing that page
7. Fixed - Deleting element keeping rubber band
8. Added - Copy and paste "look" (colors, images, states, fonts, and alignment)
9. Added - Word wrap checkbox, and usage of such.
10. Added - Tab around elements (unfortunately shift-tab does not cycle backwards. You can use comman and period to cycle both directions)
11. Added - Home key will select parent element
12. Added - End key will select first child element
13. Added - Entering X,Y coordinates in lower right with multiple selected elements will move all of them
14. Added - Panels can now be marked "hidden" meaning that using "scroll up" and "scroll down" within NR will not show them
15. Added - Right click options on hardkeys
16. Added - Hitting enter and escape on plugin properties will OK and Cancel appropriately.
17. Added - When adding an image to the image picklist, it will scroll to the bottom
18. Fixed - Null pointer error when going to image selection after removing some elements
19. Fixed - Changed all references to LUA to Lua (though a newer version of NetRemote is required for the change to the plugin actions)
20. Added - Image variable picklist on advanced tab of element properties to set the image variable.
21. Added - Because of many things using the "ID Tag", the element properties will enable and disable the options (IE: If you use an image variable, you can't have states, and vice versa)
22. Added - Lua action in plugin action uses syntax coloring editor
23. Added - Much stronger Girder 4 integration. The designer will connect to Girder 4 automatically and show more of the loaded files. Dragging and dropping an action that doesn't yet have an event will create the event within Girder, dramatically improving the ability to design an interface that uses Girder.
24. Added - Undo/Redo of copy,cut, paste actions.

[Jlee]

Looks like you've been very busy Ben . Nice Work.

I haven't had chance to try this version yet but looking at the feature list I was hoping to see something about states. The 'hide when true' property seems to be working the wrong way round. If I set myvar to 1 and use 'myvar is 1, hide when true' the button is hidden when the value is 0 and shown when the value is 1.

I guess you could break everyone's CCF's if you fixed this so maybe you could just change the text to read 'hide when false'.

[Jlee]

1. Why no wrap text box on frames (only buttons)?

2. In a frame if you set alignment to Top Left NR still centres the text horizontally. This was with a large frame with 5 lines of text separated by line feeds.

3. Is there any chance the 'copy look' function could bring up a selection box with check boxes for each item we want to copy (like Tonto).

[Jlee]

Big BUG! Can't drop a NR Basic Lua action onto button actions and double clicking the action instead of dragging it caused an exception error.

[danward79]

Hi Ben,

Looks like you have been beavering away hard on this. Would like to appologise for my absence recently this has been due to G4... Sorry!

[Rob H]

Even bigger bug - NR Designer won't even start for me!

The splash screen appears and stays on screen, but that's as far as it gets.

Here's what DbgView has to say

Connecting to NetRemote object
Creating CoNetRemoteHelper
Creating CoNetRemote
Getting Namespace
Getting plugins
Getting configuration from registry
Creating ElementProperties reusable window
SymTDI: ProcTrack: CalculateSignatureForModule : Module doesn't seem to have DOS header?

[Rob H]

Further to this - it looks as though it's stuck here

> 00000000()
system.dll!System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Receive(byte[] buffer, int offset, int size, System.Net.Sockets.SocketFlags socketFlags) + 0x8e bytes
system.dll!System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(b yte[] buffer, int offset, int size) + 0x67 bytes
mscorlib.dll!System.IO.BinaryReader.FillBuffer(int numBytes) + 0x58 bytes
mscorlib.dll!System.IO.BinaryReader.ReadUInt32() + 0x12 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Utility.GirderClientIm pl.ReadCommand(uint sequence, uint cmd, System.Object[] parameters) + 0x5e bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Utility.GirderClientIm pl.ReadCommandSpecific(uint sequence, uint cmd, System.Object[] parameters) + 0x22 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Utility.GirderClientIm pl.get_Children() + 0xe6 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Controls.ActionDesigne rControl.LoadPluginTree() + 0x6a0 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Forms.ElementPropertie s.ElementProperties(com.promixis.Controls.NRIEdito rControl parent) + 0x25f bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Controls.NRIEditorCont rol.NRIEditorControl(com.promixis.Forms.NRIEditorF orm parent) + 0x12c bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Forms.NRIEditorForm.Op enFile(string filename) + 0x115 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Forms.NRIEditorForm.NR IEditorForm() + 0x6c3 bytes
NRDesigner.exe!com.promixis.Forms.NRIEditorForm.Ma in(string[] argv) + 0x113 bytes

[Jlee]

I've had a similar problem ocassionally with the previous version and I've restarted NR to get designer to come up ok.

[danward79]

I had the same problem this morn, but no time to grab the logger output. sorry

[Rob H]

Found out that I was still running G4 B1 on one machine which was preventing NRD from starting successfully.