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ShapeShifter slows window movement down?

MacNN Troubleshooting 14 posts Jul 9, 2005 to Jul 12, 2005

#1 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 09:35 MacNN

Just tried ShapeShifter 2.1.1 in Tiger 10.4.1 if I move a large window arround the window doesn´t hang with the cursor, it´s like when you resize a window, you move the mouse but the window needs a short time to be moved there too.
Can´t remember that it was like this in Panther, can´t remember which was the latest SS version I tried on that though.
Any one else with this problem?

#2 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 09:47 MacNN

No, and the topic has been brought up before.

#3 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 10:25 MacNN

uhm? No nobody has this problem but the topic has ben brought up before? That makes no sense :/

#4 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 10:32 MacNN

People have asked if SS slows the system down.

What theme are you using? There is a bug with the latest version of SS involving transparent spaces.

#5 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 10:41 MacNN

I tried with UnityGk and Fear Platinium 3

#6 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 10:52 MacNN

Have they been updated for Tiger? That could cause a few problems. Tried any other themes? Was it working all right before the update?

#7 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 11:10 MacNN

Don´t know which themes are updated for Tiger. I tried Kamino V2 and NEOS 2.0 now, same probs.
It´s the first time I use ShapeShifter in Tiger, so I don´t know if the OS, SS or the themes are causing this prob.

#8 Sat, 9 Jul 2005 - 14:05 MacNN

It's an OS thing, at least in Panther (or it could just be the speed of my old hardware running the OS). It demonstrates a "magnetic effect" where the window is pulled slightly behind/after the pointer when moving both themed and unthemed windows.

#9 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 - 01:44 MacNN

I've had a few reports of this from Tiger users. I can't duplicate it myself - it seems to be video card dependent, and it seems to be fairly rare (I'll probably get a bunch of "me too's" now!). I assume it has to do with window server compositing of windows, as it happens only when dragging or resizing windows.

ShapeShifter 2.1.1 was an improvement over 2.1 for Carbon apps, and I hope to still make more improvements in a future version for Cocoa apps, even though I don't experience the issue myself.

#10 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 - 01:50 MacNN

Quick question about the development of Shapeshifter, do you work on major versions simultaneously with incremental releases or do you work on getting the kinks out of current versions and then move onto major upgrades when you're satisfied with what's out there?

#11 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 - 06:47 MacNN

I work on major releases at the same time I work on incremental releases, but I only concentrate on one at a time, and major releases won't go forward if there are a substantial number of incremental things that need looking after. In other words, major feature stuff has been on hold pretty much continuously since early February, which is when I began working on the Tiger transition. After releasing SS 2.1, I immediately began working on the 2.1.1 update, and I'm about ready to rock a 2.1.2 release. After that, it looks like major release code'll be back on the front-burner again.

Actually, I have worked on major release stuff since February, but only when my brain has needed a break from the mundaneness of bug fixing - probably under 20 hours total, versus probably 1000 hours for Tiger and bug fixes.

Mmmmmwwwhy do ya ask?

#12 Sun, 10 Jul 2005 - 10:56 MacNN

Everybody likes the new and shiny so I was just curious as to how your development cycles. There's no point in asking about future plans but at least now I know where things stand on the path to new and shiny :-)

#13 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 - 03:28 MacNN

FWIW, I found the info about the development cycles interesting. More geek info is always appreciated!

#14 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 - 06:16 MacNN

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