Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Wednesday 5th

The past few days have been spent knee-deep in tweaks and refinements, kicking off with the conversion of the HTML documentation to a Word file (which will, in turn, make it easier to produce a proper Windows help file and a PDF).

The next major task was to finish off the keyboard input and finalise the keyboard shortcuts on the various menus. Despite being a relatively simple task, this ended up spanning a couple of days, for a number of reasons; firstly, as the program grew and evolved, certain shortcuts that initially made sense no longer did. Plus, after careful experimentation it became clear than not every menu action needed a keyboard equivalent. And finally, certain features needed to be made more consistent with the likes of, say, PhotoShop.

While changing keyboard logic and moving checks and function calls, I did manage to track down some more obscure bugs, as well as adding and tweaking some of the menu commands (which means that my lovely docs are now out of date...!).