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matt lohkamp marked one of Justin Ho's replies in BumpTop as useful. Justin Ho replied to the problem "pictures on walls not high quality anymore?".

matt lohkamp asked a question in BumpTop on April 09, 2009 08:30:

picture stuck outside environment bounds

This is crazy - I'm not sure how it got out there, but I've been dumping a bunch of pictures onto the bumptop, and doing the 'global grow/shrink' function, and this one (pinned to the wall) got kicked out into the black abyss outside the walls:



Using the photo browsing feature, I can 'fly out' to it, where it jiggles around and slowly rotates, but i can never get it back 'inside the box'.

matt lohkamp reported a problem in BumpTop on April 09, 2009 08:14:

inadvertant global grow / shrink is annoying

This wouldn't be a problem if there was a global undo feature, but until then, holding control and rolling the mouse wheel while clicked onto the bumptop and no other icon scales all icons simultaneously - something I do about 95% by accident, and 5% on purpose. Adding an additional button might be a good way to alleviate this -

select icon(s) + control + mouse wheel = targeted resize
shift + control + mouse wheel = global resize

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 08:07 to the question "How soon - if ever - are we going to see thick files come back?" in BumpTop:

I agree - this was the first thing that I noticed was missing when I first tried it.

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matt lohkamp reported a problem in BumpTop on April 09, 2009 08:04:

overlapped icons grabbable through icons on top

So I've got a stack of a dozen or so mid-sized photos sitting on the desktop, in a pile. If I pick one, grow it to cover the others, then set it down, it remains sitting on top, just like you'd expect.

But when I click in the middle of that one picture that's sitting above the others, covering them up, I grab through it to one below - this shouldn't happen. Oddly enough, it isn't consistent - some pictures are 'easier' to grab through then others.

A comment on the question "infinite desktop - misleading term." in BumpTop:

well yeah, that much is obvious - but did they have to call it something misleading? all I'm saying is - you can't call something 'infinite' and then give it big black definite edges. – matt lohkamp, on April 09, 2009 07:39

matt lohkamp reported a problem in BumpTop on April 09, 2009 07:34:

bug rendering grown images in presence of other huge pictures

After dropping a picture of splattered colours onto the bumptop, then 'grow'ing it up to the size shown, I dropped in another .jpg - this one is pretty big: 260x2485. As you can see, it caused pretty profound graphical glitching, which looks like a shading error - like it's trying to render a shadow but it's messing up. Dragging other images across the glitched out surface causes these weird blocky areas to redistrubte themselves, flickering across the surface of the image.

PS - after deleting the afore-mentioned big tall .jpg, the glitched out photo stays that way - in fact, now the entire surface looks like it's covered with 90% opaque black, and it still flickers when other icons are dragged across the surface.

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 07:30 to the idea "Twitter should not open in a browser each time." in BumpTop:

I completely agree - I realize it's to prove that the tweet went up, but after the first or second time it becomes annoying rather then reassuring.

matt lohkamp started following the idea "Twitter should not open in a browser each time." in BumpTop.

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 07:26 to the idea "A door to close Bumptop" in BumpTop:

I'm not sure that I see the benefit of this - I mean, hit 'alt-f4' if you want to close it quickly, or right click the icon in the taskbar and pick 'exit bumptop'.

Or, if you wanted to, you could always make a batch file that'd do it, give it a door icon, and pin it to the wall...

matt lohkamp marked one of Justin Ho's replies in BumpTop as useful. Justin Ho replied to the question "invalid twitter login".

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 07:14 to the question "Error message: "You are missing some core Windows Fonts! Please resolve that issue before starting BumTop."" in BumpTop:

'bum top?'

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 07:13 to the problem "Blurry Wall Photo Res." in BumpTop:

I had something like this happen too - I had a nice big gigantic (2600x1200 or something) photo sitting on my bumptop that I'd grown to fill about 2/3 of the screen - but after restarting, it was a big blurry mess of super lo-res badness. New pictures look okay - but I can't convince the old one to res up its thumbnail (the zoom in view looks fine)

matt lohkamp started following the problem "Blurry Wall Photo Res." in BumpTop.

matt lohkamp replied on April 09, 2009 07:11 to the question "invalid twitter login" in BumpTop:

I haven't had any problems connecting to twitter at all - it asked me log in the first time, and it worked.

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matt lohkamp reported a problem in BumpTop on April 09, 2009 07:07:

'throwing' icons into wall-mounted items shouldn't be allowed

The reason I pinned my recycling bin and twitter icon to the wall is that I didn't want to accidently toss stuff into them while playing around with the physics - to no avail.

Since the icons are in a 3D space, it's incongruous to allow items that are on the floor plane to somehow be 'thrown' into items that are halfway up the wall - the thrown item should bounce harmlessly off the wall.

A comment on the problem "can't make a pile out of two icons with gesture" in BumpTop:

sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't - I just wanted to make sure it was clear that I was suggesting this as a sort of ideal situation, not complaining that I couldn't figure out how to do it. :] – matt lohkamp, on April 09, 2009 01:29