Fun with MacOS (NOT) [was Re: Announceing subsurface 1.2]

[Dirk Hohndel]

So it turns out that apparently only a few of the fonts on the Mac
correctly render the UTF8 characters that I used for the star rating.

Two that I found are

Arial Unicode MS 
Apple LiSung

Even many other fonts with Unicode in their name (like Lucida Sans
Unicode) don't contain these glyphs.

Right now subsurface doesn't allow you to change the font used in the UI
so you won't get to see the stars correctly in the UI. You can change
your divelist to one of the fonts listed above - but that's not really
solving the problem that the UI is broken.

The good news is that I hate the way the current UI works when it comes
to setting the star rating (and Linus vehemently agrees), so this will
be reworked, anyway. The bad news is that for now (as far as I can tell)
you are stuck on a Mac (well, you get a UI that doesn't really work for
the star rating - so it's not really a step back from what you had
before, where there was no star rating).

I am also working on getting a Mac installer package up for download but
am running into some odd issues with creating that package - so bear
with me while I battle an OS I am less familiar with.

The good news (off topic, given the Subject: of this email) is that I
have a working Windows installer up on the website (please test when you
get a chance... so far this has only been run in a VM with Win7)

Thanks

/D

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:16:37 -0800 (PST), Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> 
> It's been about six weeks and a ton of things have changed - actually,
> if the last time you looked at it was subsurface-1.1 then you might not
> recognize the new release.
> 
> Highlights to mention:
> 
> New features:
> - new look with three-pane window and new coloring
> - show dives "latest first"
> - new statistics page
> - completely new editing logic: 
>   double-click on a dive in the dive list (or right-click and select 
>   'edit' from the menu on the text fields) to bring up the edit window.
> - show momentary SAC rate in the air use graph
> - sanitize saving of cylinder pressures (either samples or global, but 
>   not both if they are redundant)
> - new xslt based XML importer 
> - add useful testdata instead of Linus' sample dives
> - add ability to rate dives with a familiar 5-star rating system
> - more OSX/Windows cleanups and support (no more gconf !!)
> - lots of random fixes
> 
> I will make Linux, Windows and Mac binaries available over the next few
> days. For now, get the sources and start playing with it :-)
> 
> /D