LZ: USGARD: First Looks
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LZ: USGARD: First Looks
I just got USGARD and have been playing around with it and here are
my first impressions/bug finds. I personally dont like the way the start
menu extends so far to the right, the window should be shorted to the end of
the text, at least for the start and program menu. Under the contrast
changer, the pixel after the bar is never there...
The explorer is neat, but needs work. For one, when I went into F1
copy program, then pressed exit, it really messed up my memory, 2nd mem doesnt
work and there is a wierd string as the bottom file of the explorer. How come
libs dont have their own typetab entry? I think it would be nice if the
title bar would have a free mem display on it. Also, why cant the explorer
do scrolling like the control menu does? it would look a lot better. The
filter stuff seems to sometimes filter out all the files, even when it
shouldnt. The Run What? screen could look better :)
Safehold is really clumsy the way it is written now. I can see the
programming problem. It needs to be able to figure out if it was started
by startup, startup from turning it on, or by the user. So it can quit to
TI-OS, shutdown, or go into options respectively. Then it would have the
same usefullness as the old safehold did, fast and easy to use.
The library stuff seems to lack a little bit. Mainly with the problem
of running a program and not knowing what lib it needs. This will especially bea problem when you give a program to another user and it wont work. One
partial solution would be to somehow display the lib number from explorer, but
it would still be the main problem with this shell.
I dont mean to just criticise (sp?) the shell :) When I first saw
the shell, I was completely amazed. I love all the support you give to
programmers, and I hope they will use current library functions and create
good libraries to keep code small. I also am eager to see the Expander
support and link mode support stuff. Great Shell guys! w00w00!