"Bug" in DVDA

Aje wrote on 2/12/2003, 2:32 AM

I´m from Sweden and have been working with DVDA for a couple of days now.
I´m very impressed of the possibilitys of this authoring program but I have found
a little bug in the text editing function.
In sweden we use the letters å ä ö that probably even don´t show up on your computers with english language (its an a or o with 2 dots or a little ring over).
The letters Å Ä Ö can´t be written in menus with CAPITALS just with small letters.
I don´t know if you can call this a bug but it is rather irritating when we use those letters quite often in Sweden.
Aje

Comments

sacherjj wrote on 2/12/2003, 11:45 AM

I've found that I can get some letters to appear when they can't be typed in directly by going into a Word Processor (MS Word in my case) and producing the character. Then I copy and paste it into DVDA. DVDA doesn't understand Alt key codes for extended letters (ex: Alt+0167), but Word does. Once I have the ASCII or UNICODE character for this font, DVDA seems to understand it correctly.

SonySteveS wrote on 2/12/2003, 1:08 PM

Aje, this does indeed look like a bug. I've entered it into our database and we'll try to have it fixed for the next update.

Sacherjj, are you using the Beta or the final version? There was a problem with entering extended ASCII text using the Alt key in the Beta, but this should be working fine in build 160.

Aje wrote on 2/13/2003, 3:53 AM

A new text bug detected today
I use the swedish IME and today I detected several errors
when holding shift down to get the
! " # ¤ % & / ( ) = ? ` signs
several of them don´t match and some isn´t even available
Aje

SonyTony wrote on 2/13/2003, 8:56 AM

Aje,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Before we release an update a workaround is to type the desired text in an application like notepad, and copy/paste the text into a DVDA text object. Please let me know if that doesn't work...

Aje wrote on 2/13/2003, 4:05 PM

Thanks for the tip it work just fine
and I know for shure that you can fix this
little problem in the future.
I just love this program