Colour selection in DS 6.21.252 dysfunctional; known bug or isolated issue?

[Ralph Grothe]

Hello,

I am using the Free versions of DS 6.21.252.

As written in the subject line, I cannot change any colours in DS.
Neither does it work globally via File=>Program Settings=>Preferences,
nor for the colour of the submerged hull in the Project Settings,
nor when editing the hull’s layer properties.
Although I can change any setting in the layers editor window,
however when clicking on icon in the third column for selecting the layer’s colour nothing at all happens.
The same is true when clicking on the buttons with the three dots (ellipsis) of either color project or global preference settings.

Is this a known bug in the used DS release, or could this be an issue related to my executing DS in the WINE API wrapper under Linux?

This is not just a cosmetic issue because I urgently would like to change the background colour of the view panes from a rather dark grey which seems to be the default setting to something more white,
as it contrasts the black section lines (i.e. body frames, waterlines, buttocks) too little and thus makes workig with DS unnecessarily tedious.

Regards,
Ralph

[Marven]

Very strange indeed. I’ve never heard from anyone experiencing this problem before. That doesn’t seem to help you though. Can you please indicate which operating system you are using?

[Ralph Grothe]

Hi Marven,

my OS is the latest Fedora 19


[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# uname -a
Linux pabell 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 21 19:27:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)


Wine was installed from the Fedora RPM repos


[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# wine --version
wine-1.7.0

[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# rpm -q wine{,-core}
wine-1.7.0-1.fc19.x86_64
wine-core-1.7.0-1.fc19.x86_64
wine-core-1.7.0-1.fc19.i686

[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# rpm -q --qf "%{packager}n" wine
Fedora Project


I usually start DS as an unprivileged user through the following alias


[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# su - fiddle -c alias delftship
alias delftship='WINEPREFIX=/home/fiddle/wineprefixes/DelftShip nohup wine wineprefixes/DelftShip/drive_c/Program Files/DELFTship/DelftShip.exe &> /home/fiddle/wineprefixes/DelftShip/drive_c/users/fiddle/Temp/wine.log &'


As you can see, the redirection of stdout and stderr captures a few messages from wine in a log file.
But I fear they are of little use and only meant for Wine hackers (only fixmes)


[root@pabell:/home/fiddle]
# cat ~fiddle/wineprefixes/DelftShip/drive_c/users/fiddle/Temp/wine.log
nohup: ignoring input
fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0x10094 0x00000000
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b32e80)->(0x1b331a8 0x22e978): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b32e80)->(0x1b332d8 0x22ea98): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b32e80)->(0x1b33488 0x22ea98): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b32e80)->(0x1b33588 0x22ea98): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b33968 0x22e9e8): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b33a38 0x22ea18): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b33d78 0x22eb78): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b341c8 0x22e7c8): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33e70)->(0x1b34238 0x22e928): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b34548 0x22e7c8): semi-stu
b
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b34250)->(0x1b345b8 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b348c8 0x22e7c8): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b345d0)->(0x1b34938 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b34c48 0x22e7c8): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b34950)->(0x1b34d28 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b35038 0x22e7c8): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b34d40)->(0x1b350a8 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b353b8 0x22e7c8): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b350c0)->(0x1b35428 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b33370)->(0x1b35738 0x22e7c8): semi-stub
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode namespaces not supported: L"xmlns"
fixme:msxml:domelem_setAttributeNode (0x1b35440)->(0x1b357a8 0x22e928): semi-stub
fixme:wininet:InternetAttemptConnect Stub
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x20058 enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x100ce enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x200ce enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x30134 enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x30136 enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x500ce enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x500cc enable -1: stub!
fixme:win:WINNLSEnableIME hwnd 0x600ce enable -1: stub!


However, the InternetAttemptConnect Stub entry bothers me.

In the beginning I sometimes had trouble with a hanging DS Wine session after the DS logo with the ship appeared which was inexplicable to me.
I then deactivated the search for updates setting in the global preferences, which seemed to have helped with the startup hangs.

[Ralph Grothe]

Hello again,

I have just downloaded and installed Free DS version 6.22.253 on the Windows XP laptop of my wife.

There I experienced absolutely no difficulties in any of the mentioned color selections that were dysfunctional in my Linux setting with the 6.21.252 release.

After installation I just made a tarball of the installation directory which I will unpack on my Linux laptop to test if I encounter the same problems with this slightly newer release.
Before writing the tar archive on the XP machine I set the preferences to a white background color.
So even if color selection still doesn’t work under Linux I at least have a more eye-friendly view port.

I will soon be back to report on the outcome…

[Ralph Grothe]

Having untarred DS 6.22.253 that I tarred from the XP installation into my Linux /home filesystem and having run this in wine the bug disappeared,
i.e. I can select the color from layers, global preferences and project settings now without any problem.
Must have been a bug with DS 6.21.252 that only cropped up in Wine.

[Ralph Grothe]

I sadly have to rescind my last all-clear statement, which was a bit premature.
In fact its now even worse than just not being able to select some colour.
Currently my DS is totally dysfunctional as it now keeps getting hung on start and just freezes with the DS ship and version logo.
Just the same as before with the 6.21.252 release.
I don’t know what’s going on because it used to work for the first 3 or 4 sessions.
I haven’t changed my Wine settings nor tried to run any other Windows software under Wine meanwhile.
Is there now some sort of restriction built into the latest Free DS releases?
Something that requires some sort of background auto-re-registering or authenticating against the DS website?

[John Watkins]

Has this issue been resolved? I just downloaded 6.22.253 on my laptop with Windows 8.1 and opened a design I did on the same program on my desktop, which runs XP, and the background when I’m working on the lines is so dark I can barely see the black lines. How do I get this to show lighter?

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