Some suggestions for jv162005

criftus

Hey,

I've been using your software since when you were still at http://www.jv16.org, and have never found any software better than what you do. Don't know if you remember me, but I e-mailed you a few times with some issues I was having with your earlier products. Actually, I'm not even sure if you're still here, what with it being Macecraft now. =P

Anyyyways, on to the real point of this message. I have a few suggestions/bug reports for jv16 Powertools 2005 that maybe (I hope!) could be added/fixed in a new build sometime in the future?

Registry Manager

- Having each tab remember which sorting method you selected would be great. I always have to click on Author twice to get it sorting A-Z every time. Gets kind of annoying. Maybe an option like explorers "arrange icons by" feature?

- You got rid of the right-click more info/details window that was in the old jv16! why? It gave you quick access to regedit and had the full registry path! The "find more information online" is okay, but I'd love that old feature back.

- I'm going from memory, but wasn't there a "custom remove" button with the remove & close buttons at the bottom? That was a useful feature as well. =(

Registry Cleaner

- The "fix" option has a lot of bugs. The "ok" button sometimes becomes totally unresponsive, and can only become available again after a full restart of the program.

General Stuff

- Changing the font to certain different ones (like Arial - a common font), makes some text not fit in the boxes provided for them. Try changing it to 8pt Arial in the options menu, you'll see what I mean.

That's about all I can complain about right now. =D

I love the program, and am still very pleased that I purchased it. It's about time I finally supported you anyways, I got more than enough use from your efforts. =)

Cheers,

Mathew L Hatton

Mat.H@Cogeco.ca

jv16

Criftus wrote

Hey,

I've been using your software since when you were still at http://www.jv16.org, and have never found any software better than what you do. Don't know if you remember me, but I e-mailed you a few times with some issues I was having with your earlier products. Actually, I'm not even sure if you're still here, what with it being Macecraft now. =P

It's still me, but I'm afraid I don't remember you. I only tend to remember people with strange names, or people who I has e-mailed me many many times.

Criftus wrote

Registry Manager

- Having each tab remember which sorting method you selected would be great. I always have to click on Author twice to get it sorting A-Z every time. Gets kind of annoying. Maybe an option like explorers "arrange

icons by" feature?

Good idea, I'll implement this for sure in the future.

Criftus wrote

- You got rid of the right-click more info/details window that was in the old jv16! why? It gave you quick access to regedit and had the full registry path! The "find more information online" is okay, but I'd love that old feature back.

The feature was removed only because of schedule issues, just like a few other features as well. But the feature will be included to the product in the future.

Criftus wrote

- I'm going from memory, but wasn't there a "custom remove" button with the remove & close buttons at the bottom? That was a useful feature as well. =(

This feature is implemented in the next version which is released later today.

Criftus wrote

Registry Cleaner

- The "fix" option has a lot of bugs. The "ok" button sometimes becomes totally unresponsive, and can only become available again after a full restart of the program.

These problems should be fixed in the version released later today.

Criftus wrote

General Stuff

- Changing the font to certain different ones (like Arial - a common font), makes some text not fit in the boxes provided for them. Try changing it to 8pt Arial in the options menu, you'll see what I mean.

I know what you mean, but I don't think this is indeed a great problem. The font change feature is only meant for people who use different character sets and need to use a special font to see all the characters right, for example the Chinese and the Japanese.

Of course, it would be possible to make the entrie GUI dynamically sized based on the font's size but that would be a huge task to do. I have been improving the sizing of the GUI elements in each version to remove the most common problems e.g. with different languages, but I doubt I will never have the time to make it 100% dynamic.

criftus

Great to hear all of that stuff is going to be fixed! =) You're right about the font thing - it's not really that big a deal at all, just something I noticed. No need to go to a lot of trouble just to fix that. Thanks for replying so quickly as well.

Don't worry about not remembering me either. =P I think I only e-mailed you once or twice - and that was quite a few years ago to boot. No biggie.

Keep up the great work,

Mathew L Hatton

Mat.H@Cogeco.ca