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Bug Watch: July 2005

14 Jul, 2005 By: Steve Johnson Cadalyst

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A comprehensive look at how well Autodesk is doing at fixing existing AutoCAD bugs in the new releases

Before we begin the hunting season on the plethora of new AutoCAD 2006 bugs, this month we look at how well Autodesk is doing at fixing the old ones. The Bug Watch columns available at http://www.cadalyst.com date back to January 2003. Which of those bugs are fixed, and which remain?

First, let's take a look on the bright side of life. The following bugs were present in AutoCAD 2005, but they are fixed in AutoCAD 2006:

Blind Find 1	May 2003
Blind Find 2	May 2003
SDI = Slip-up, Defect, Imperfection	December 2003
Lost in Base	February 2004
Txt2mtxt Torture	March 2004
What's the Buzz?	May 2004
Space, No Line at Front Here	June 2004
A Spell of Bother	October 2004
Holy Color Calamity, Battman!	November 2004
Table Trouble 1	November 2004
Table Trouble 2	November 2004
Perverted Revert	March 2005
Xopen Doesn't	April 2005

This next batch of bugs is partially fixed by AutoCAD 2006. Each bug is absent if you use the new MText editor. However, some people will want to avoid the new editor for good reasons, including bugs that I will discuss in the coming months. You can revert to the old editor by setting the MTexted system variable to OldEditor. If you do so, you will discover that the following bugs are still there:

Breaking a Non-breaking Space	August 2003
Wrap Trap	April 2004
Ruler Fooler	April 2004
A Fine Mess	September 2004
Another Fine Mess	September 2004

The next bug is also partially fixed by AutoCAD 2006. In this case, AutoCAD now only makes life difficult on screen -- plots come out fine.

TrueType False Type

March 2003

The following bugs were present in AutoCAD 2004, but they are fixed by AutoCAD 2005 (and 2006, with one exception):

Right Click, Wrong Response	March 2003
Plot Style Stumble	March 2003
Flipping Thing	April 2003
Faulty Default	May 2003
Return of the Scream Menu	June 2003
Gray Area	June 2003
Extension Exasperation	June 2003
Left Just Ain't Right	July 2003
Concentric Consternation	July 2003
Frozen First Failure	October 2003
Palette Palaver	November 2003
Txtexp Torment 1	November 2003
Txtexp Torment 3	Decvember 2003
Color Conundrum	January 2004
Accidental Attribute Appearance	January 2004
Palette Peeves	February 2004

Unfortunately, AutoCAD 2006 unfixes the Textexp Torment 1 bug that was fixed in 2005. It's actually worse now -- when you explode text in 2006, it is further out of position than before and at the wrong scale.

The following bugs were present in AutoCAD 2002, but are fixed by AutoCAD 2004, 2005 and 2006:

Dimstyle Dialog Distress	January 2003
Layout of Order	January 2003

So where does that leave us? The following 35 items are yet to be fixed:

Attribute Angle Affliction	February 2003
Lock Shock	February 2003
Spitting at Image	April 2003
Childish Leaders Don't Want to Change	April 2003
$7 Won't Buy You a Leader	April 2003
Look at the Size of This OLE	July 2003
eTransmit eTrouble	August 2003
Devious Previous	August 2003
Extents Elusion	September 2003
Pointless Paper Pans	September 2003
Txtexp Torment 2	November 2003
Txtexp Torment 4	March 2004
Qleader Quirk	April 2004
Menu Mouse Move Mayhem	April 2004
Txt2mtxt Torture too	May 2004
Paper Space Zooms to Outer Space	July 2004
Intersection Indiscretion	August 2004
Open, Please Enter	August 2004
Magic Spell	October 2004
Wrong Spell Revisited	October 2004
Holy Mirroring Mayhem, Battman!	November 2004
Block Lock Shock	November 2004
Still Active Bug is Still Active	November 2004
My Leader is a Stick Head	December 2004
Deleterious Delete	December 2004
MPEdit Finds PEDITACCEPT Unacceptable	December 2004
PEDITACCEPT Finds Sysvdlg Unacceptable	December 2004
Renaming Profile Prevents Palette Proxy	December 2004
Just a Fraction Out	January 2005
Vexatious Viewports	January 2005
Mysteries of the Pyramids	February 2005
Not Exactly	February 2005
Gradient Gripe	February 2005
DBMOD, He Be Odd	March 2005
Lost In Stupid Parentheses	April 2005

Several of the above bugs date back to Release 13. Special mention should be made of the Menu Mouse Move Mayhem bug. This dates back to Release 14, but it is worse in AutoCAD 2006. In the interest of balance, I should also point out that the Renaming Profile Prevents Palette Proxy bug is rendered largely irrelevant due to the new Workspaces feature in 2006.