TrackIR 5 'Final' issues
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:44 pm
Hi,
a few questions: it looks like you are installing the start menu and desktop icons with NT4 compatibility mode enabled by default? I assume that this is because of the crash on start issue? While, for the moment, this appears to work on my machine, isn't this more like an unreliable kludge than a "final"? Should something like this not be in the release notes?
Also, TrackIR5.exe sometimes does not close on exit. This appears to be happening when you exit through the systray icon context menu.
Speaking of the systray icon: just how is that "Minimize / Maximize to Tray" thing supposed to work? Without wanting to discuss the semantics of "maximize to tray" , I find it completely counter-intuitive and downright difficult to restore the application window when the app is minimized to tray. Doubleclicking the systray icon does not properly restore the application window either. Instead, sometimes when I double-click the systray icon, it will restore the window in windowed mode, but completely collapsed into nothing but a tiny title bar in the top left corner of the screen. You have to manually drag the window borders to make the window visible again. Imho the whole systray max/min/restore routine is broken, or bad design at least, and needs to be rethought and redone.
Pls. don't get me wrong, I think the V5 software is a great improvement in terms of UI and functionality, but it is still buggy and should not be called final, or at least be accompanied by appropriate release notes.
Concerning the fubar release of the "first final". Ok so somebody messed up the "final" build, s*** happens, nevermind. But it would have been nice if the previous beta had still been accessible on the website over the weekend while the broken "final" was out, so that users would have had a way to reinstall the previous version. I would like to suggest that you keep the links for older versions up until V5 has become more stable.
JuMo
a few questions: it looks like you are installing the start menu and desktop icons with NT4 compatibility mode enabled by default? I assume that this is because of the crash on start issue? While, for the moment, this appears to work on my machine, isn't this more like an unreliable kludge than a "final"? Should something like this not be in the release notes?
Also, TrackIR5.exe sometimes does not close on exit. This appears to be happening when you exit through the systray icon context menu.
Speaking of the systray icon: just how is that "Minimize / Maximize to Tray" thing supposed to work? Without wanting to discuss the semantics of "maximize to tray" , I find it completely counter-intuitive and downright difficult to restore the application window when the app is minimized to tray. Doubleclicking the systray icon does not properly restore the application window either. Instead, sometimes when I double-click the systray icon, it will restore the window in windowed mode, but completely collapsed into nothing but a tiny title bar in the top left corner of the screen. You have to manually drag the window borders to make the window visible again. Imho the whole systray max/min/restore routine is broken, or bad design at least, and needs to be rethought and redone.
Pls. don't get me wrong, I think the V5 software is a great improvement in terms of UI and functionality, but it is still buggy and should not be called final, or at least be accompanied by appropriate release notes.
Concerning the fubar release of the "first final". Ok so somebody messed up the "final" build, s*** happens, nevermind. But it would have been nice if the previous beta had still been accessible on the website over the weekend while the broken "final" was out, so that users would have had a way to reinstall the previous version. I would like to suggest that you keep the links for older versions up until V5 has become more stable.
JuMo