Colouring lessons page 4
This screenshots gallery generally relates to screenshots of graphical interfaces. The fundamental nature of a graphical interface is colouring in the screen with lots of pretty pixels. And for some reason, we still cannot seem to even get that much to work reliably…
Anti-aliasing of text on the screen is normally skipped below a certain font size: typically 12 pt in Mac OS 9 and maybe 14 pt in Windows. Except Windows turns it back on for really really tiny sizes to absolutely ensure you can’t read anything:
The following screenshot is what programs looked like after installing the Japanese language kit in Windows before I had to reboot:
A classic mistake to make in computer graphics is to assume a pale if not grey or white background for icons, one that should have been solved in Windows Messenger 4.7 with ease given that Windows XP natively supports 32-bit icons. But hey, it’s Microsoft.
My development environment of REALbasic (go on, boo if you like!) has various problems of its own which do not bode well for going and developing software with it. And we’re not even talking about all of its crashes but just its state of confusion. As you switch between events and methods in a window, it keeps track of the cursor position of each one. Which is nice. Except when the cursor was off to the side on a long line and this happens:
It also has a fantastic propensity to screw up filing dialog boxes:
While we are on the subject of development environments, Arne (do you know any other Arnes?) sent me this one from the Sesam Java IDE
I just don’t get how things like this happen. Did it think it was in Australia for a minute?
The next two are rather odd – running ShadowIRC and Doom at the same time:
The Doom Chamber of Mirrors:
VNC is not the most well-implemented system, probably owing to its nature of hooking the user interface from the outside. But this is just silly:
In comparison to some of the above, the following screenshot is pretty mild. Task Manager has just forgotten to redraw part of its window. Quite how, I have no idea. (Do you ever forget to breathe?)
