[Qt-creator] Regressions in beta

[Charles N Burns]

As of the December 19 build, the font issue appears to be resolved.
Slow file access over a network share remains.

--Charles Burns


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Thorbjørn Lindeijer
<thorbjorn.lindeijer at nokia.com> wrote:
> ext Charles N Burns wrote:
>> - The font now looks messed up for both the drop menu text and for the
>> list of files in the project (main.cpp, foo.pro, etc). It looks almost
>> as if QT is doing its own font antialiasing, and certain letters are
>> awkwardly thicker than others, as if they were horizontally shrunk. I
>> am on Vista Enterprise 64-bit, standard font AA (not "cleartype") and
>> am running in the native LCD resolution. See attached screenshot.
>
> That definitely looks very ugly. For testing it would be helpful to know
> exactly which font and at which size you configured for your
> applications, and possibly your DPI settings.
>
>> - Clicking on files in the project now has about a 4 second lag time.
>> For example (in screenshot) if I am editing main.cpp, then
>> double-click on model.cpp on the left, it takes about four seconds
>> before "model.cpp" becomes the active (highlighted) item and the file
>> is displayed in the editing window. During this time, CPU usage jumps
>> by 50% (probably 100% on one core).
>> It does not seem to "cache" whatever it does, because if I move back
>> to main.cpp for example, it takes another 4 seconds.
>> Once the file is displayed, editing works fine at the normal speed.
>
> That's also bad.
>
> Unfortunately we don't have a 64-bit Vista machine to test with at the
> moment, and we haven't seen these problems (at least not that severe) on
> 64-bit XP and neither on 32-bit Vista. But we'll be sure to look into
> these problems.
>
>> Aside from the occasional bug (which is to be expected in a beta),
>> this editor really makes me smile. It is rare that a both group of
>> people who are good at programming and a group of people that are good
>> at user interface both get together and work on something. There are
>> so many editors out there, but they all suck in their own special way.
>> It's so refreshing to see someone get it right (at least within the
>> terms of my preferences -- a lot of people really like their preferred
>> editor, and that's fine too).
>
> That's very nice to hear! :-)
>
> Regards,
> Bjørn
>
> --
> Thorbjørn Lindeijer
> Software Engineer
> Nokia, Qt Software
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