Hi Bill,
I just noticed the second paragraph of your message. I trust you have
received the license by now. If not, let me know. I'm really glad you
like the book enough to buy a replacement copy!
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On 7/20/2015 05:10, William Prothero wrote:
Mark:
Thanks for testing this. It does give me more confidence that it’s some oddity
on the student’s computer.
FYI: I have bought your book (2 of ‘em. I lost one) and InstallerMaker (still
haven’t gotten a license emailed, tho). The 3 days aren’t up, tho. Anyway, I’m
looking forward to using it.
Best,
Bill
On Jul 19, 2015, at 4:12 PM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
Okay. With this info, I'm unable to see any pixelation.
I have tested the app on a 2.2 Ghz laptop with 4 GB built-in memory running
Windows 8.1, i.e. nothing fancy and your students probably have a similar or
better configuration. The sytem is Dutch.
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On 7/20/2015 00:43, William Prothero wrote:
Mark:
Keeping in mind that the info I got was from my teacher/collaborator, Sabina
Thomas, and her info was during an online video chat with one of her students
in Japan, what I understand is that the pixellation showed up after opening the
MAP part of the application, doing a profile plot, then plotting Quakes from
the “Select Data To Be Plotted” dropdown menu. That’s the information I have.
I hope you don’t waste too much time on this because there is so little
available information to help in debugging the situation. At this point, my
solution is to try to get as many folks as possible to try it on Win8, and if
the problem occurs again, beg, pay, whatever to get them to provide more
detailed information about their computer and its settings. I think if you have
any hunches or WIn8 idiosyncrasy info that could affect this, I could explore
that further, but …..
I’m reluctant to bug Sabina’s student further about this. BUT, I am wondering
if there is an app she might download that could send me information about her
computer, that would help. Just thinking aloud. She might be willing to do that.
Thanks for looking at this. I really appreciate it.
Best,
Bill
On Jul 19, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
_Where_ and _when_ should the pixelation show up exactly?
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On 7/19/2015 23:42, William Prothero wrote:
Mark:
The pixellation should show up on the steps you took.
However, I don’t see it and another LiveCoder who downloaded it and played it
on Windows 8 doesn’t see it. Lowering the screen resolution shows the effect,
but that would show the entire window pixellated, and that isn’t what is shown
on the image. Only the part that is snapshot’d shows the pixellation. It really
stumps me. I’m wondering if there could be some kind of jpg difference between
countries. I could understand possible font differences, but the problem is the
snapshot area(s).
I’m wondering if there could be some timing problem, rarely seen, where the
snapshot is taken before the underlying image is fully updated. The map image
is a big one, with its size and location changed, but the data plot is just a
group of lines and fields which is displayed, then snapshot’d.
Debugging this seems hopeless without being able to reproduce the effect,
though.
At this stage, unless there is something about Windows and ‘png’ files in
Japan, perhaps with a different language, I don’t know how to debug it. It’s
very hard to get students to give feedback, after the assignment is over and
they are onto other things. Probably also unfair to ask them to participate in
debugging. So, I only ask once.
One of my debugging strategies is to ask grad students at the UCSB geology
dept. to try the program and I pay them $20 for feedback. I may try that
strategy and if they see it, and I could get hold of their computer, something
might pop out.
BTW: I put the apps and problem images on my web site at:
lhttp://earthednet.org/downloads/index.html
<http://earthednet.org/downloads/index.html>
Very odd.
Bill
On Jul 19, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
Bill,
I performed step 1 till 7. What are the steps to check if anything relevant is
extremely pixelated?
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On 7/19/2015 19:09, William Prothero wrote:
Mark:
Thanks for looking at the app.
Instructions:
1. launch app
2. Click on “Begin” button with option key down.
3. At Welcome screen, click on “Go To Map” button
4. At Map screen, select “Quakes” form the dropdown labeled “Select data to be
plotted”
5. Click on “Save Map Image” (optional)
6. Click on the “+” magnifier button, move the mouse over the map, and then
click. The magnifier symbol should move with the mouse.
7. Make an elevation plot by first clicking on the “Make A Profile” checkbox,
then drag the mouse across a segment of the map image.
The snapshot is taken whenever the map screen changes. Symbol data are drawn
into the snapshot image data. The map is a very large jpeg, which is reduced,
then the snapshot is taken. When the map is magnified (by increments of a
factor of 2), or moved, a new snapshot is taken.
It appears that the pixellation occurs at the snapshot step. There is a region
below the map (initially grey) that holds the data plots. This plot is created
by creating the various graphic elements (fields, boxes, lines), then a
snapshot taken, and then the plot elements deleted. The plot image is then the
snapshot. This was also shown as pixellated (by the student with the problem),
so I think it is most likely a snapshot problem.
Thanks so much for looking at this, Mark!! I have not been able to duplicate
this problem on my Parallels hosted Windows 8.1 system.
Best regards,
Bill
On Jul 19, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
Bill,
I had a look at your app. There is no "export snapshot" button or menu item.
Please, provide instructions as brief as possible.
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