Windows Mail in RTM

[Al]

I hope that MS will get some of the folk of the Windows Live Mail effort and
back to fixing up Windows Mail.

IMHO, It is just barely ready for prime time.

The one item on my punch list that I have mentioned before is one that I
would not find acceptable in a freshman comp sci project!

When I do bulk operations on the message list, deletes, or moves, or empty
recycle bin, the amount of flutter and jitter and ultimately unpainted
messages are unacceptable. The fact that messages are left unpainted on the
list is a show stopper IMHO. The flutter and jitter are of concern under
ADA. This could presumably be due to a drivers issue, but so what. It's
still MS's job to get it right.

Someone left out the two lines of code needed to prevent this. (That's all
it would take in Framework!)

I work very hard to keep this from happening in my code. I wish MS worked as
hard

MS LURKERS: If you want details holler.

Regards,
Al Christoph
Who will be announcing a revolutionary program for dealing with pictures in
Windows Mail in the near future.
Watch for requests for beta testers (free license), if your email contains
lots of pix.

 

[Hillbilly]

" flutter and jitter "???
Don't happen on mine

 

[Al]

Thanks for your response:

This problem is not noticeable if you have less than a page worth of
messages on your screen. I save 100 MB of email per day for testing purposes
so I see a lot of messages at one time.

To attempt to reproduce problem at its worst:
1. Create or go to a folder with a large number of messages - multiple
"pages" as displayed in the message list. (I'd do at least 100 messages.
Your deleted items folder is the best bet.)
2. Select the first and extend the selection into the top few messages of
the last page. Note the number of messages unselected.
3. Delete them or drag them into another folder.

If you have the problem
1. The list will go wild while this happens. (This is a potential American's
with Disabilities Act problem for employers, etc.)
2. The list will appear to end much too soon i.e. to have to few messages in
it. Now run the mouse (you may need to drag it, but I think this happens
just by moving it) over the lower portion of the message list, messages that
are "missing" will repaint themselves. They are missing only in the sense
that after the update they did not get repainted. (This is a show stopper!
It happened to me yesterday after the install, but I was not able to
reproduce it this morning as I cleaned up my deleted items folder. Oh well.
It's not a figment of my imagination, but I guess I don't know the exact
circumstances to make it happen.)

The PC is a home brew with a 4.0 rating running Vista Ultimate more than
satisfactorily otherwise:
1. AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000 + 2.16 GHz ( but as of today running 32 bit
vista)
2. 1023 MB of ram
3. NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Display adapter (Microsoft WDDM)
Driver is NIVIDIA 8/21/2006 version 7.14.10.9686
Online update of driver says I have the latest and greatest installed.
4. PnP generic monitor

Regards,
Al