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Is this the right place to post bug reports on 2007?

At the moment I prefer to use 2004 but I did try 2007 recently.

Apart from 2007 being very slow to operate and tune I did find an annoying bug.

On my PC the fonts are too small on the 2007 schematics so I have to zoom right in to read the default fonts. (1600x1200 monitor)

If I change the screen fonts then the SW locks up once I try to exit the menu screen.

The cancel button does nothing and if I press HELP the software crashes out to the "Microsoft Encountered a Problem" box.

It does this every time on my PC.

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MZachmann Nov 1, 2007 5:59 AM
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Hi,

I'm not sure I know how you're changing your screen fonts to cause the lockup. What menu screen are you talking about?

In 2007 you can change the schematic fonts simply by double-clicking the schematic and picking a new font.

Also, in general 2007 is about the same speed as 2004. What application causes you to think it is 'very slow to operate?'.

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jross Nov 1, 2007 8:56 PM
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Hi,

I'm not sure I know how you're changing your screen fonts to cause the lockup. What menu screen are you talking about?

In 2007 you can change the schematic fonts simply by double-clicking the schematic and picking a new font.

Also, in general 2007 is about the same speed as 2004. What application causes you to think it is 'very slow to operate?'.

Regards,
Â Mark

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Hi thanks for the reply.

Yes, it's the schematic fonts that I am referring to.
If I edit them from 4.5 default I get the lockup.
However, I did try again with the smallest fonts in the menu ( 8 ) and that seemed to work!
I was trying bigger fonts before. It crashed out every time previously and I must have tried about 6 times.

The speed difference is very apparent when tuning.
2004 is very fluid in this respect but 2007 is very jerky and slow in comparison. I tend to use the tune option a lot using the hotkeys so the overall impression (in the way I tend to use the product) is a loss of speed.

I'm trying to swap over to 2007 because we will probably want to upgrade EMPOWER to MOMENTUM GX on all our keys.

2007 certainly makes 2004 look dated but it's a shame about the tune speed. Maybe I need a new PC!

I also miss the F5 graph update feature during tuning. Is this hidden away somewhere in 2007 as an option? I prefer it to the solid 'original' trace that 2007 stores on the screen.
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jross Nov 1, 2007 10:26 PM
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OK I found out how to get the font lockup problem again.

I must have missed the OK button at the top when editing the fonts yesterday and clicked OK at the bottom of the menu. (this OK button is still live?)

If this OK button gets pressed in error then the SW locks up.

Then pressing help gets the MS problem screen.

Is there a way to set the fonts to be a bit bigger as a default or does this have to be done on every schematic?

It looks so much better (on my monitor) once the fonts are enlarged.
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MZachmann Nov 1, 2007 10:52 PM
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Hi,

1) The default size in 2007 is larger than it was (actually a tiny bit bigger than 2004) but there's currently no easy way to set a default other than 6.5 pt. Conversely, you can easily change the default template - which will set the font size when you do a file new.

2) You shouldn't be able to click the ok underneath. We fixed this a couple of weeks ago for the next release. However, you haven't crashed - the font dialog just went below the product (you can see it in the main menu bar at the bottom). Click the Font button to bring the dialog back to top if this happens to you again.

3) We have seriously enhanced graphs since 2004 (slowing them down) and slightly changed the way the tune bar causes calculation - which makes it seem choppier than it was. We're still working on making the control 'feel' silky smooth but the actual simulate speed is very close to 2004 (faster on a lot of stuff, slower on a some). Don't forget that tuning has a lot of new capabilities - and one is to turn off analysis calculation (for analyses you don't recalc such as empower) while tuning. You may find you're just calculating too much stuff.

Checkpoints are the new replacement for the old tuning dashed lines. You can set checkpoint lines to be skinny if you want. Turn them off with a C in the graph window (or use the checkpoint buttons). After you use them a bit you'll never want to go back (multiple checkpoints, checkpoints with markers, checkpoints with mouseover, ...).

Overall, we really think you'll be impressed with 2007.08. It does have a few rough edges after the 2005 rearchitecture (still) but the product is light-years ahead of 2004 in a lot of ways.

I have a very interesting 20-minute video contrasting the two products objectively if you're really curious.

Mark
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jross Nov 1, 2007 11:16 PM
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Hi,

1) The default size in 2007 is larger than it was (actually a tiny bit bigger than 2004) but there's currently no easy way to set a default other than 6.5 pt. Conversely, you can easily change the default template - which will set the font size when you do a file new.

2) You shouldn't be able to click the ok underneath. We fixed this a couple of weeks ago for the next release. However, you haven't crashed - the font dialog just went below the product (you can see it in the main menu bar at the bottom). Click the Font button to bring the dialog back to top if this happens to you again.

3) We have seriously enhanced graphs since 2004 (slowing them down) and slightly changed the way the tune bar causes calculation - which makes it seem choppier than it was. We're still working on making the control 'feel' silky smooth but the actual simulate speed is very close to 2004 (faster on a lot of stuff, slower on a some). Don't forget that tuning has a lot of new capabilities - and one is to turn off analysis calculation (for analyses you don't recalc such as empower) while tuning. You may find you're just calculating too much stuff.

Checkpoints are the new replacement for the old tuning dashed lines. You can set checkpoint lines to be skinny if you want. Turn them off with a C in the graph window (or use the checkpoint buttons). After you use them a bit you'll never want to go back (multiple checkpoints, checkpoints with markers, checkpoints with mouseover, ...).

Overall, we really think you'll be impressed with 2007.08. It does have a few rough edges after the 2005 rearchitecture (still) but the product is light-years ahead of 2004 in a lot of ways.

I have a very interesting 20-minute video contrasting the two products objectively if you're really curious.

Mark

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I see what you mean about the font window.

However, the lower buttons still 'click' and the help button causes a crash every time.

Not a problem to me any more as I can avoid these buttons when changing fonts

I'm also trying to get all of our engineers to swap over to 2007 because of the new MomentumGX feature. (but I'm not actually in charge of who uses SW, that's down to the IT dept)

There's about 15 RF engineers in this building and AFAIK we are nearly all still using 2003 or 2004. We have approx 6 keys now.

If your video could be made a bit shorter then it would be worth sending it to us.
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