Other GUI oddities page 2
A selection of weird graphical interface anomalies. I’d write something witty here if I coud think of it =) (And I have over 100 images left to process)
I would guess that in the following screenshot, Photoshop and Windows are both trying to show tooltips at the same time? Evidently both are determined to see that I get the message.
From Mackie, Safari seems to be having trouble communicating:
The following composite screenshot (d’oh!) shows attempts to rename folders in Outlook Express 5; the rename edit boxes were showing up exactly one row out:
There is a bizarre bug in REALbasic where if you open the menu bar just as an Open or Save dialog box is opening, the menu bar is damaged. All the menu item icons appear to have grown larger and then disappeared.
On closing the dialog box, the menus return to normal
but remain permanently stretched. The exact effects do vary though.
REALbasic, ah, REALbasic. Or FAKEbasic to the wise. Here, an unhandled exception tooltip is stuck on the screen:
I have no idea what happened in the next picture – a dialog box in Rumpus seems to have gone awry:
Finally, a testimony to the delights of bespoke Visual Basic software. Team Photo Automation. Complete rubbish. It maximises and minimises Photoshop for you but grabs the wrong window handle and maximises the nearest dialog box it can find:
The error itself is because Photoshop (maybe from poor instructions from Team Photo, I cannot tell) is trying to repeatedly export its clipboard during automated A4 image manipulation and the Office multi-clipboard is complaining that it can’t be stocked up with 300 dpi A4 images. Of course, this also stops you using the clipboard for anything else during the process. Lovely. Rejoining the true Windows world came as quite a shock.