NetRemote Designer 2.0.0 BETA

[Rob H]

Yes, unfortunately it does need to have NR open, e.g. it needs to fetch the current variable values etc.

I may be able to do something about that cyclic crash though ie just give up after the first attempt to start NR, or maybe find some way to tell NR to not load the CCF on startup after the first failed attempt.

Glad to hear that I did in fact fix the flash problem though

[NeoMorph]

Errr.... didn't realise there had been a new release of NR since you added the fix... I was sure 128 crashed as normal which is why I'm still using NR 102 for the panels with flash. I'll have to try it again in a minute.

Edit: Just downloading 129 now...

Have to say I like the new NRD but there are a couple of niggles still...

1. Adding Actions.

When there is a big tree layout it gets hard to read. I stacked my hardware into groups and subgroups to keep it clean. Unfortunately when I go to add actions in NRD I have to keep moving the seperator bar left and right to read the actions available and the ones I have active...



Would it be possible to make this dialog resizable in windows so we can see everything?


2. The Dreaded Image Moving Back To Top Left After Editing in F2

This is a thing that I hated and still seems to be there in NRD2. Thing is though it doesn't do it every time.

Here is how I've got it to happen...

1. Scroll to the far right of your panel so the left side is off screen.
2. Select an element and hit F2.
3. Hit Cancel to come out as if you have decided not to edit.
4. Now it seems fine... but then say you realise you do want to edit. so you hit F2 again.
5. Exit and WHAM!... you get shown back to the top left of the panel instead of where you were.

It's really wierd.. why does it work fine sometimes and other times it resets to the top left.

Other than those I'm really loving the fact that NRD2 has loads of functions that were lacking in NRD1.


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ROB YOU ARE A GOD!

Flash is indeed working fine in 129.... it hasn't worked since release 103 so I'm a VERY happy bunny indeed... Thank you!

[Rob H]

I'll see what I can do about those.

Of course one way to avoid the scrolling is to use zoom to fit But I'll admit it is rather annoying when it does that - it certainly annoys me too.

[jwilson56]

A small annoying bug... if you use the replace image and select another from the list by accident then use the 'cancel' button the image itself is not replaced but the old image will take on the frame/button size of the one you mistakenly had picked.

[Rob H]

Build 5 is up (actually it went up yesterday, but no message was posted about it)

Changes:

• Undo history for moving and sizing elements is fixed
• Keyboard selection commands Home, End and Tab weren't updating the undo history
• Added Preferences item "Limit font size in tree"
• I hope I've improved the tree tooltips - they should no longer show if e.g. a dialog is open.
• The hidden page flag should now be saved to the CCF
• The variable list combo box for an action now shows 25 entries rather than just 7
• If an element has a Component Lock applied (purple selection outline) that lock will be carried over to any pasted copies.

[Wilhelm]

Yeah, the hidden flag is finally saved.
Unfortunately NRD seems to destroy or mix up palette information. I saved my ccf in the format 1.4. Since I have no chance to enter IR learn mode with NR 2.x I wanted to switch back to NR 1.44 I set the file format back to 1.0.
As I opened the file again with my installed NR 2.0 some of the buttons changed color from orange to blueish.

I think there is a serious mixup with bitmap formats/palettes.

Speaking about more and more restrictions using the whole Netremote Suite, I begin to doubt if any newbee would ever manage to use this. I knew, that 2.0 was missing direct IR output. But even not being able to enter learn mode is a serious drawback.

Nevertheless the palette mixup is a total showstopper for me :-(
I have to add that all my PPCs only have 64K colours. The effect cannot be seen, on Win32!

frustrated again

[Rob H]

I think the only learn mode available is if you have a USB-UIRT.

How would it be able to learn IR otherwise since we aren't allowed to use the old IR DLL any more?

Not sure what's going on with the colours though.

[Wilhelm]

any news on the colors?

[Rob H]

Not yet - is it only some of the button images or all of them?

[Wilhelm]

Here is the before and after..
It is visible only on the PPC so I took the picture with a camera. (sorry for the bad quality )