Colouring lessons page 7
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…
PhAtfiSh sent me the following screenshot – the usual, except why does it keep happening? Although, I am certainly curious about my available options at this point:
I don’t like the choice being given.
Mac OS X Tiger (if not all versions) displays some curious redraw problems after a window has been minimised and then restored:
The Help Viewer application shipped with Mac OS 9 has an even weirder bug. If a (global?) floating window covers over the program’s window, it redraws incorrectly when you scroll the window:
The second “copy” of the floating window is an embedded QuickTime movie demonstrating use of Mac speech recognition (which is fun on the odd occasions that it understands what I said). QuickTime itself – oh, what a disaster.
The following was a freak occurrence that’s never recurred. I asked Tiger to quit multiple programs at once, leaving iCab running. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot to erase the menu bar prior to redraw:
Time to play Guess the Menus:
The following screenshot from Mackie shows a window that has mysteriously been set to the wrong window class, or the operating system has forgotten what a regular window is supposed to look like:
To be fair, bugs in REALbasic – as with Excel – probably don’t count, since it’s made of bugs by Bug workers in Bug City, but what’s with this?
Windows has this curious feature where selected menu items fade out, like a modern-day blink. I don’t know how this works, but Windows seems not to either:
I frequently find that Windows has forgotten to do anything with the menu item window. Here, I’ve selected two different items from the same menu, and both have become lodged on my screen. Explorer is, however, the main culprit, although RedSquirrel has been affected by it too, and now Thunderbird (I closed the address book window):
