https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326 DisplayFusion RSS: Development Setbacks Mon, 25 May 2026 10:01:30 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#5 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:00:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#5 DisplayFusion Sometimes it was just individual buttons, but most of the time the entire taskbar just hangs and locks all the buttons in place. I have had 2 testers experience this issue, but if you haven't had this issue then there's nothing to worry about. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#4 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:03:41 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#4 DisplayFusion I hate being a tester and having nothing to test - it seems I am unable to reproduce the lockups in W7 - but I wonder....

Was it causing issues like *buttons* - aka apps - being locked onto the taskbar and never going away? Irfanview was notorious for that but all of a sudden seems to have stopped doing it.... ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#3 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:44:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#3 DisplayFusion I can't thank you enough for testing all of these betas and special one-off builds. I really want to nail this down before I release the final version, I hate releasing software with known show-stopping issues. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#2 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:23:01 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326#2 DisplayFusion Hope I'm not causing you too much headaches! I tend to bring my machines to their knees quite often, so if it works for me, it will probably work for anyone! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:35:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/development-setbacks/?ID=fb91665b-370f-489d-9fc5-4f6a687cd326 DisplayFusion Don't panic, it's not that bad! I am having to re-write large sections of the program in order to try and deal with intermittent thread locking issues. This will delay the next beta by about 1 week, and despite my best efforts I'm sure that a bug or 2 might slip in. I am planning on releasing Beta 18 before next Wednesday (Feb 11), and I can pretty much guarantee that we will hit Beta 25 before these issues get worked out. This seems like a lot (and it is) but I firmly believe in the "release early, release often" principle when testing. I like having testers start using somewhat buggy code early in the development cycle to make sure everything is heading in the right direction. This prevents issues where I spend months working, then release a beta for testing only to discover something fundamentally wrong and having to start again.

A big thanks to everyone who has stuck around for all of these releases, and I can't wait to get this nice and solid for a final release. ]]>