Re: Eraser is nearly useless in Vista (and probably Windows
Will Pittenger said:
One problem might be that this is 64-bit Vista SP2.
That is precisely the OS on which I am doing most of my beta testing. I haven't had any issues with the context menu, in any version of Eraser, since version 6.0.6, of less than blessed memory. The fact that the menus suddenly appeared, presumably when the Eraser installation remained unchanged, makes me wonder whether the problem was at the Explorer end.
Will Pittenger said:
In that case, please at least add a warning to the task info dialog. Better yet would be an option to prevent recursion.
As you gather from my signature, I'm not on the programming team. But your suggestion is definitely worth feeding into Trac; you can easily get a logon, and post a ticket. Joel uses Trac as his 'to do' list, so that's the best place to make sure that ideas are properly considered.
Will Pittenger said:
Task log ... I tried it with a single task. That didn't work.
This looks like a .NET error, which I hope Joel can find time to investigate. Just to clarify, is this happening on all erasing tasks, or just in particular cases?
Although I do not generally recommend installing development builds for other than test purposes, your posts indicate that you understand the issues involved in doing so. Particularly if you have a reserve machine, you might like to try build 2153 (the build I am currently running on Vista) to see if the error occurs on that also. Development builds have a black box plugin which you can enable; if you do that, when you restart Eraser after a crash, it will give you the option of uploading the crash report to the Eraser server. (If, having tried build 2153, you decide to revert to 6.0.7, please read the 'sticky' at the head of this forum before you do so.)
David