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The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work [Solved]
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:17 pm
by Enigma
Sometimes the Quick Search stops working. In my active fonts, I searched for "arial" and tried everything to make it work, but without success. Only when I closed MainType 4 and reopened it, it worked.
I hope the bugs and crudities will be taken care of quickly... I haven't had much fun using MainType 4 yet - version 3 is a much more mature product.
The offer for the introductory upgrade price ends the day after tomorrow. Well, for less than 30 bucks I guess I'll buy the upgrade, but I'm far from being convinced.
Cheers,
Jan
Re: The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:49 am
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Bugs cannot be fixed if they cannot be reproduced, and I cannot reproduce this. It is possible to search by Font Name, Family, or Foundry — checkout the drop down by the search field. Searching by Foundry for "Arial" will find nothing.
Re: The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:07 am
by Enigma
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Bugs cannot be fixed if they cannot be reproduced
I'm a web developer, so I know that all too well.
I didn't refer to this special bug; I was just a little bit frustrated at that moment...
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:It is possible to search by Font Name, Family, or Foundry — checkout the drop down by the search field. Searching by Foundry for "Arial" will find nothing.
I've seen that and tried to make it work by choosing "Font name" and "Family", but it didn't work. I had to restart MainType. Until now this happened only once, but I didn't spend that much time with MainType - it's not one of my central tools...
Cheers,
Jan
Re: The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:56 am
by León Fridsma
In some rare cases MainType loses connection to the fontservice without notifying the user, but then a "Loading..." overlay should remain be visible. And without a way to reproduce this issue I'm afraid it's going to be very hard to track a bug (if any). Also please note that the quicksearch ALWAYS searches your ENTIRE library, NOT the view you have currently selected.
León
Re: The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:08 am
by Erwin Denissen
Do let us know if this happens again, as we are not able to reproduce this problem, but want to fix it.
Re: The Quick Search sometimes doesn't work
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 2:27 pm
by Enigma
Erwin Denissen wrote:Do let us know if this happens again, as we are not able to reproduce this problem, but want to fix it.
Unfortunately I don't have much time to care for my fonts at the moment, but I'll have an eye on it.
Cheers,
Jan