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[Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robin Mills <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Guys
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> I've tried this on a 'clean' Mac in the test lab (a 'virgin unused version
> of MacOS 10.5 and 10.6).  Here's what I saw:
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> Notice that there is a Status Bar - however Igor's graphics are NOT
> clipped.
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> If I use Finder/View/Hide Status Bar, the window gets smaller (without
> clipping the graphics).  When I close the DMG and open it again, it
> remembers not to show the Status Bar.
>
> I don't think we should spend any more time on this 'clipped' graphics
> issue because:
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> 1) The clipping seems to be only on Andre's machine.  And even if the
> clipping occurs, no information is lost.  This is cosmetic.
>
It looks to me an ideal task to Andre to fix this.


> 2) The graphics look very nice to me as they are.
>
Indeed. Thank you Robin and Igor!


> 3) It has taken up hours already.  There are 'real' issues to be addressed
> before 0.28 ships.
>
Sure. We should now concentrate on testing if everything is functional.


> 4) The mechanism to make this work is undocumented by Apple, so making
> changes is not simple and has an uncertain outcome.  Changing anything might
> lead to more unexpected results and more hours spent on this matter.
>
I'll ask Steve Jobs, next time I see him.

Good work!
Stani

>
> Robin
>
> On 7/14/10 9:49 AM, Robin Mills wrote:
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> André
>
> Here are last night's builds.  I'm going to try to reproduced this today in
> the test lab on a couple of 'clean' machines:
>
> http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchAPP-20100713-rmills-imac.dmg
> http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchPKG-20100713-rmills-imac.dmg
>
> Robin
>
> On 7/13/10 11:25 PM, Zrtveni Jarac wrote:
>
>  Tell Andre to send us some screenshots to see the "damage" which is
> caused by a status bar, to discuss what can be done...
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Kekeljevic
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Robin Mills <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx> <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>; Zrtveni
> Jarac <zrtveni@xxxxxxxxx> <zrtveni@xxxxxxxxx>; André Renault
> <kestrel.andre@xxxxxxxxx> <kestrel.andre@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Wed, July 14, 2010 7:54:14 AM
> *Subject:* New Phatch Packaging
>
> Comments welcome:
> http://clanmills.com/articles/macinstallers/
>
> I'll publish the binaries tomorrow, and fix any suggestions you'd like to
> make about the build string.  I used Arial-Italic and used a single black
> string for the build information.  I'd like to put it at the bottom -
> however it gets hidden on André's machine, which insists on clipping the
> graphics and showing a the status bar.  I don't know what it's doing that -
> I'm fairly sure it's OK on the machines at work (I'll check that out
> tomorrow).
>
> Robin
> http://clanmills.com
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