jawbox wrote:Jeff,
Running the newest alpha in mac, the print button does not work, you have to go into the actual menu to print or hit apple button & P
With version 1.1.0.11-alpha, the "Print Button", as well as the menu command 'File | Print', and also the keyboard command 'ctl-p', each work okay for me in
WinXP -- they each bring up the 'Print' pop-up screen to allow me to select a printer and preferences, and then proceed to print the recipe. HOWEVER, I still have the same problem with truncated data that I mentioned earlier in another thread (that post was on January
20th, and so far has been unacknowledged by anyone); anyway, in all three printouts for THIS test, the first page ends somewhere in the midst of the Schedule 'list of steps' with only the upper portion of a line printed, and the second page begins with the Schedule 'graph', shown in full. I printed out three different recipes, each with a different number of ingredients, to test for any consistency regarding where the 'list' is truncated, but there is no particular place or 'line' that this happens.
Also, I will add at this point that when I used the 'Ctl-p' keyboard command the third time, the first page printout stopped in the midst of the 'Analysis' section, leaving about 4" of blank space on page one, although it printed all of page two starting with the graph at the top. I had to run that command again (the
fourth printout during this test) to get the first page to print all the way to the bottom to check the truncation point, described above. This particular oddity -- leaving 4" or so of blank space -- has happened to me before, but I have never reported it because I occasionally have printer issues with my system and had just assumed that it way my system.
Now I'm not so sure, especially since my occasional printer "issues" in other software have never involved THIS particular oddity as far as I can recall (the other issues are typically that the printer can't be found or else some sort of a pop-up error message about my "printer buffer", both of which require a re-boot to resolve). This 'oddity' issue with BTP (my third printout this test) does NOT require a re-boot, since my fourth printout printed without one. This 'oddity' does not occur very often, and is only an intermittent problem at best, but I'm curious if anyone else here has had the same problem or if it is just my system.
Finally, I think it is important for more than one member to confirm the same problem with software; this lets the developers know whether it is likely to be a genuine issue with the software. I therefore hope that someone else with a
Mac system will report if they are having the same problem as you, jawbox. As for replies to our posts in this particular "TEAM" forum, I have found it extremely frustrating when I have made bug reports which have been completely ignored, such as the one I made before yours in this thread
FIVE days ago and which has not been acknowledged by
anyone -- not even a simple acknowledgement of "Same here" or "I'll look into it". That isn't the first time that my bug reports have not been acknowledged by
anyone, and this isn't the first time that I've complained about it, nor is it the first time that I've suggested that a simple reply by the developers, like "Noted", is appropriate and eventually expected. My time is just as valuable as everyone's, and I have volunteered a lot of it for this software, and ignoring me makes me feel dadgummed unappreciated. But aside from my feelings, the important issue for all of us is that when a post is unacknowledged and then another different bug is tacked onto the thread along with maybe a couple of posts about the
newer bug, there is a good chance that the former, unacknowledged bug, will be overlooked if it hasn't already been noted. Soooo, how do I know whether my last bug report -- which was that I can't 'drag' water or mineral salts into a recipe from either inventory or the ingredient database -- has been duly noted or if it needs me to spend my time reporting it again? Or maybe it's just my system; I don't know without confirmation. I don't blame other
members for not responding, because they have no responsibility to do that; I do, however, have a BIG problem with Jeff and Lathe not doing it. Now, I'm always willing to consider that they
might have been unavailable, but my post was on January 21st and Jeff posted in another thread later on that same day and then again on January 24th. Not getting around to fixing the bug is one thing; customer relations is another. I know that I have often been a pain in the butt with my complaints, but I have done an
awful lot of their work for them for free, too, and this sort of treatment irritates me even more than the bug itself.
Bill Velek