Current status of BoxSearch & reply to minglw
not...@vip.sina.com
only have two new ideas, and plan to release new 5.0 version in 1 or 2
month. When writing code, new ideas appear continuously, out of my own
imagination. Putting these into codes and doing test will cost a lot of
time. So the final 5.0 version is postponed. Perhaps there will be
pre_1, pre_2 ... version for preview.
Now reply to minglw. I'm sorry that I didn't see your post on
SuperSoko's forum. Usually I only look new post listed on the top page
of SuperSoko. You edit your previous post, but it's not considered to
be "new post" by the system.
In fact, I can debug without the help of IDE. I have defeated many
difficult bugs for job. To fix the bug you reported, I esimate 5-10
times' test is needed, that means 1-2 weeks' time. At the same time, I
update source code every day. It will be chaos if I do debug & develop
work simultanously. I will send you test version after the next stable
point.
There is a trick to do "Save&continue" for optimization. Suppose
when the program is optimizing "100-150 of 200", you cancel the
progress. A dialogue appears asking you whether to replace previous
one. Select "yes", now you have "half optimized" answer that step 0-100
is optimized. You can save this answer and continue optimization later,
begin at step 100.
minglw
Since you mention this, I have a suggestion to make this a bit more helpful.
During optimization, the "100-150 of 200" is only displayed breifly
and then it disappeared. And the user will not know what "step" they
are in until it starts the next step of the optimization.
Can you make the "progress text box" scrollable so that the user can
scroll back to see the entire progress ? (or have other ways to
indicate to the user the step they are in.)
I understand doing both debugging and developing new code, it can be
chaotic if not managed properly. There's no hurry. Take your time
to work on it and send me the debug version when it's ready.
Thanks!