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If you find a bug or have a suggestion, contact me and I'll add it to this table.
| Number | Date | Class | Software | Description | Status |
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| 49 |
04/05/08 |
Bug |
Do178Builder |
Search operations sometimes
highlight text that's near the found text, rather than highlighting the
found text itself. This only occurs if the text contains Unicode
encoded as UTF-8. There's no way for this to occur by using Do178Builder-only operations, but it
can occur if you have cut-and-pasted the text from some other source,
such as from OpenOffice.
It's a little bit insidious, because Unicode can appear in all sorts of
unexpected places in such a cut-and-paste, as for example in
“right-and-left quotes” vs. "straight quotes". |
Problems like this are
predictable from the wxWidgets
documentation, but I appear to be doing all of the things that are
suggested to avoid the problem. I'll continue to look into it. |
| 48 |
03/23/08 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
Sometimes, after a Search operation or a Markup operation (like adding emphasis), the text is not highlighted. This is known to be some kind of unfortunate interaction between wxWidgets and GTK+, or perhaps with the X-Window system, and is not a bug in Do178Builder per se. (You can see the same effect in sample programs provided with wxWidgets itself.) Not everyone experiences the problem, but I have experienced it on multiple platforms with multiple versions of wxWidgets / GTK+ / X, and failed to experience it on some other platforms. I'm not sure at the present time if there is any prospect of fixing it. | I've tried to work through it in
the upstream libraries, but without much success so far. |
| 47 |
05/02/04 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
There are apparently some
circumstances under which file-locks aren't removed, even though
Do178Builder has exited. |
05/02/04: I've tried to
close up holes where this may happen, but principally have added
prompts allowing the user to override the locking --- accompanied by
stern warnings not to do it. ... But you know what? I no longer would really advise using file-locking. File-locking is useful only if you are sharing a Do178Builder database with multiple developers, and when you're doing that it make change-control of the documentation very difficult. Your mileage may vary, of course. |
| 46 |
05/02/04 |
Bug |
Do178Builder |
File-locking
isn't taken into account for the File/SaveAs function. |
Fixed
05/02/04. |
| 45 |
03/29/04 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
On some targets (SuSE 9.0), the
editor dialog isn't resizable. On others (RedHat 8.0), the editor
dialog can be resized once, but then won't allow it to be resized again
later. On still others (RedHat 7.3), the editor dialog resizes
fine. Clearly, there's some problem here with different versions
of wxWindows. |
To do. |
| 44 |
11/10/03 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
The
Win32 build procedure is
broken (again), apparently by the fix to PR #38. |
This
is due to some problem with
the wxClientDisplayRect function in Win32 wxWindows 2.2.7, and
apparently
has been present since about 08/07/03. It has now been worked
around, as of 11/12/03 and later, but only by the expedient of
bypassing some checks on window resizing. Therefore, it hasn't
really been perfectly fixed in any permanent sense. In the process, I've also discovered that Do178Builder doesn't build at all in Win32 using wxWindows 2.4.2. |
| 43 |
08/07/03 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
Apparently,
I never implemented
File/New. How silly of me. (Thanks to Yigal Rahamim.) |
Fixed 03/28/04. |
| 42 |
08/07/03 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
It has been reported that the SGML created by Do178Builder cannot be processed under Windows using Adobe FrameMaker+SGML. I'd hypothesize that this is due to Do178Builder producing UNIX-style end-of-lines (line-feed only) rather than DOS-style end-of-lines (carriage-return plus line-feed). (Thanks to Yigal Rahamim for this report.) | Needs looking into. |
| 41 |
02/25/03 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
A feature
to move to the next TBD item would be
valuable. |
This is a
duplicate of PR #35. |
| 40 |
02/25/03 |
Issue |
Do178Builder |
A feature
to expand or contract all list items
would be valuable. |
This is a
duplicate of PR #29 & 30. |
| 39 |
02/25/03 |
Bug |
Do178Builder |
Sometimes, it doesn't seem possible to add a new
item (the button is grayed out), even though adding an item is allowed,
so you may need to add it at a higher position than you wanted.
(It seems to happen--rarely--with the last item of an allowed
type.) |
To do. |
| 38 |
02/25/03 |
Bug |
Do178Builder |
In RedHat 7.3, the program
crashes--seemingly--when the database becomes too complex and you try
to expand an item. ... More info (08/06/03): I think this may actually be a video-card driver problem specific to my own computer. It seems to occur only when the Do178Builder window is expanded larger than 1280x1024 pixels (for example, on a 1600x1200 desktop). |
"Fixed" 08/06/03. The "fix" is really just
a workaround. It prevents the Do178Builder window from expanding
beyond 1280x1024. (However, this "feature" can be overridden from
the command line.) |
| 37 | 04/08/02 | Bug | Do178Builder | Does not build with wxWindows v2.3.2. (Thanks to Philip Dalrymple for bringing this to my attention.) | Compilation
errors were fixed 04/08/02. However, there
are still linker errors -- at least on Linux for PowerPC -- which need
to be resolved.
Partial
workaround: Use wxWindows 2.2.7
or 2.3.1
instead. (I have been using 2.3.1.) (I don't honestly know if this is fixed now, but since I am
able to build under wxWidgets 2.4, 2.6, and 2.8, I assume that it is.) |
| 36 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: remember which outline items were expanded and which options were checked (in Options/Project-options) from one invocation to the next. | Thinking about it. |
| 35 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: button to advance to the next not-yet edited field relevant to a given DO-178B document. | Thinking about it. |
| 34 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Upon loading an XML project, it should be possible to automatically update all hint-fields, CC entries, and document-relevance entries according to .template.xml. This would reduce the inconvenience of upgrading .template.xml. | To do. |
| 33 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: conversely from PR #32, it would be nice (for a mature projects) to remove all unused records. | To do. |
| 32 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: add all missing sub-records. (In other words, when a project is created, it contains all possible records in the outline view, but the user may have subsequently deleted some of them, thinking they weren't needed. Or, an updated .template.xml may contain new sub-record types. It would be great to be able to add these without manually checked every single line item.) | To do. |
| 31 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Options/Project-options dialog exists (and works) but I've not yet implemented any effect on the editor or document-creation (I think). | To do. |
| 30 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: contract-all button. | To do. |
| 29 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: expand-all button. | To do. |
| 28 | 03/01/02 | Bug | newlib-1.9.0 DO-178B documentation |
The RSC issues described in N8110.97 need to be covered. | To do. |
| 27 | 03/01/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | .template.xml should account for the RSC issues described in FAA notice 8110.97. Thanks to Jeff Knickerbocker for calling N8110.97 to my attention. | To do. |
| 26 | 03/01/02 | Bug | Do178Builder | There seem to be circumstances in which adding a new record does not automatically add all of the sub-records. | Fixed 03/28/04. The odd thing about this is that all of
the correct code was in place, but enough was commented out to make
sure that only the first child of any given item actually
appeared. I suspect it was done deliberately, but I don't know
why. |
| 24 | 02/25/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | At first I thought the notion of having a single version number for all documents was good, but now I'm not sure how acceptable it will be for most people. | As of 11/10/03, each
of the output documents can have its own revision code and document
number. |
| 23 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | How come there are no "maximize" and "minimize" buttons on the editor window border? | To do. |
| 22 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: an integrated Replace function. | Thinking about it. |
| 21 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: an integrated spelling checker. | Thinking about it. |
| 20 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Nice to have: a facility within Do178Builder, or a standalone utility, for comparing two different versions of the XML and providing a new version with the changes highlighted. | As of version
11/10/03, the Sections.log file is provided
when SGML is built, and the output files are separated by date (by day,
anyway) as well as project name. These two changes provided
almost everything needed for decent change tracking. However, it
would still be nice to integrate it into the GUI somehow. 12/17/05. Look at this workaround. While it may be a "workaround", I find it so intensely satisfying that I'm perfectly happy to retire this problem report. |
| 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Where graphics are inserted, a file dialog for selecting them would be nice. | Thinking about it. | |
| 17 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Allowing markup in item titles would be useful -- for example, for code (like function names) used in section headings. | Thinking about it. |
| 16 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Noted an instance (in the Linux PPC version) in which clicking a choice in the "Expert" dropdown list displayed garbage in the editor text control. (Went away when redrawn, though.) | To do. |
| 15 | 02/24/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | I think an "undo" (or at least, "delete markup") capability would be very useful. | Thinking about it. |
| 14 | 02/18/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | The editor dialog should automatically size itself upon creation to fill a goodly portion of the screen. | To Do. |
| 11 | 02/17/02 | Bug | Do178Builder Win32 version |
When the editing window is manually resized, the hotbutton area over the text control is not redrawn properly. | To do. |
| 10 | 02/17/02 | Issue | Do178Builder Win32 version |
The executable is huge when built with mingw32. (2.1M
as opposed to 290K Linux versions.) Update: Using the strip command supplied with mingw32 reduces the executable to about 1.1M. |
Look into building with free Borland C++. |
| 9 | 02/17/02 | Bug | Do178Builder | Well, now that I can get an XML file loaded from the command line, I don't know how to call up the editing dialog automatically. *Sigh*. | To do. |
| 02/16/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Require online help. | To do. | |
| 6 | 02/16/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | The "search" and "search again" hot-buttons are not yet functional. | To do. |
| 4 | 02/12/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | Need a conversion tool for translating XML formats from one version of Do178Builder to the next. | To do. (Not a problem yet.) |
| 3 | 02/12/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | May need to invent an actual DTD (rather than just .template.xml) for the Do178Builder XML project files to avoid being socially ostracized. | Investigate |
| 2 | 02/12/02 | Issue | Do178Builder | The built-in text editor is not adequately WYSIWYG. I don't believe that including DocBook markup tags directly in the text is user-friendly enough. | Awaits a rich-text editor widget in wxWindows (and a
rationale for visually indicating many of the allowed markups). ... or switching to Qt. |