ACDSee Pro 2 and 2.5

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Slide Show feature worse than before in 2.5! Now useless.

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  • Tankred
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    In my optinion, pulling something out of a program doesn't necessarily make the program more stable. And I never heard of anything like removing the slideshow feature from the Pro application. Changing the handling of a feature, however, is a regular step in developing a piece of software. Some like these changes, others don't.

    Posted On October 8, 2008 - 02:05 PM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Anonymous

    Tankred said:

    In my optinion, pulling something out of a program doesn't necessarily make the program more stable.

    If the module that is removed has unstable code, removing it could make the program more stable overall..

     

    Changing the handling of a feature, however, is a regular step in developing a piece of software. Some like these changes, others don't.

    That's why a conscientious company would have their upgrade software / new version, etc install as a separate program and not uninstall or replace the old program.  That way the customer would have the ability to compare and see which works best for them.  Also means that if you don't turn out a better product than the previous one, or if you remove too much functionality with your new product, people will choose to stay with the old one so the company is more inclined to make sure they put out a good and better product without removing too much functionality so people will keep buying.  Good customer service is good for the company as well.

     

    Posted On October 15, 2008 - 05:31 AM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Tankred
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    kthompson said:

    If the module that is removed has unstable code, removing it could make the program more stable overall..

    True, but this wasn't the case, here.

    Changing the handling of a feature, however, is a regular step in developing a piece of software. Some like these changes, others don't.

    That's why a conscientious company would have their upgrade software / new version, etc install as a separate program and not uninstall or replace the old program.  That way the customer would have the ability to compare and see which works best for them.

    Agreed. Normally, I wouldn't mind a new version of a program uninstalling the old version during the install procedure. But seeing all the users with several problems, a separate install would have been advantageous. Plus, I really support your idea of having a real update and a full install instead of having the latter, only.

     

    Posted On October 15, 2008 - 12:46 PM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • John Radcliffe
    Member

    I've now had ACDSee "blue screen" on me twice while running a random slideshow. I can't remember ever having a previous version actually cause a system restart: problems might  lead to ACDSee shutting itself down, but not the entire system.

    I'll try it again at the weekend, but has anyone else had a similar issue?

    It seems to happen after about 15 to 20 minutes (i.e. approx 150 to 200 changes), there are about 500 images in the folder, I'm using a single (fade) transition, have a Dell laptop with Windows XP, and I'm using build 335.

    Posted On October 17, 2008 - 12:38 PM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • moongate
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    John Radcliffe said:

    I've now had ACDSee "blue screen" on me twice while running a random slideshow. I can't remember ever having a previous version actually cause a system restart: problems might  lead to ACDSee shutting itself down, but not the entire system.

    I'll try it again at the weekend, but has anyone else had a similar issue?

    It seems to happen after about 15 to 20 minutes (i.e. approx 150 to 200 changes), there are about 500 images in the folder, I'm using a single (fade) transition, have a Dell laptop with Windows XP, and I'm using build 335.

    What graphics card do you have in your System?

    Moongate

    Posted On October 17, 2008 - 02:07 PM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • John Radcliffe
    Member

    (1) Does this make any sense?

    Intel GMA X3100

    Accelerator in Use: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

    And apparently I have DivX 9.0

    (2) It happened once over the weekend, this time without Random mode being selected. However, I was also able to run through all the images in the folder successfully (in batches), so that would seem to rule out the problem being caused by either Random mode or a particular image or image type (although most are .jpg, there are a few .bmp .gif .png and .wmf images in that folder).

    So I guess it's down to a combination of factors.

    (3) I also note that slideshow doesn't handle header or footer text correctly, and wraps the text on to a second line, but doesn't do the same with the background. So if [     ] indicates the background, I would get something like this:

    [This is the Caption                               ]
    text of the image

    Where I'd guess that the background is long enough for the entire text, but the text actually starts a new line in the middle, and the second line doesn't have the background. Most odd. (When I compared v2 I remembered that this simply refused to display a background at all.)

    Posted On October 20, 2008 - 11:10 AM (1 year ago) (Permalink to this post)

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