WaveForms glitches

[Someone]

Hello,

while waiting for my hardware to arrive I play with WaveForms a bit and found some things that don't work out as they should.

I use the 64bit WaveForms 3.16.17 rpm from the beta page on Fedora 27. For my tests I always started it with vanilla settings by deleting static.dwf3

1. On startup the application tells me that no device could be found and presents the "Device Manager" window, in which I select a demo device. When I select DDiscovery, sometimes (not always) a half transparent window "Opening device" stays open. This seems to not happen when I select a different device.

2. I can't select fonts in the options dialog. The application starts with Cantarell and Monospace. Regardless what I do Cantarell stays the same and the script font changes to DejaVu Sans Mono.

3. When I choose the "Dark" style in the options the digital color option also changes from default to dark. When I switch back to another style like "Fusion", the digital color stays dark. This can easily be changed manually, but 2 options changing at the same time confuses at first.

Have a nice day

Stefan

[attila]

Hi @Someone

1. It is fixed for the next version. 

2. Under Fedora the font change is only working with admin (sudo waveforms), so far I don't know why.

3. The next software version will switch back to the earlier used analog/digital colors.

[Someone]

Here's a small follow up:

4. In the Logic view, when I do File/Save Project: Choosing filetype with or without acquisition makes no difference. Acquisition tabs are saved both ways.

[attila]

Hi @Someone

The with/without acquisition refers to the Buffer data. Tabs, references... are always included.

[Someone]

Hi @attila,

I see that me looking stupid comes from the fact that the help included in the software differs significantly from the one referenced on the web. See here:

https://digilent.com/reference/software/waveforms/waveforms-3/reference-manual#the_workspace_and_project

The online version now seems way outdated in comparison and I will use the included help from now on.

[attila]

Hi @Someone

I recommend using the embedded Help Tab (or Help/Browse) and SDK manual since that is most up to date and correlated to the used app version.

The online help is (or it should be) concurrent for the last public release.

[Someone]

I tried Waveforms beta 3.18.13 on Linux and found issue 2 fixed.