You've raised some excellent points and pointed out a few flaws in the
distribution. I'll be posting a revised version shortly to address many of these
issues. If you don't mind, I'll post these points to the Wiki site
http://www.simberon-support.com:8080/ElastoLab+Beta+Test and follow them up
there rather than clutter up povray.general.

Thank you for your feedback

David Buck
Simberon Inc.

Marjorie Graterol wrote:

> Pentium III, 160.0MB RAM and win98, second edition 4.102222A.
>
> *I don't have Direct8 , and I did not want to download it today either. It
> is possible to assume then that I am deaf, -which is possible for any user,
> isn't it? :-) .  Completely aware of this, I opened some scenes with sound.
> It obviously  brings an error to the screen, which is perfectly normal. What
> happens is that the box appears many, many times for the same error. I had
> to reset the machine, because it crashed. Is it possible for that box to
> appear only once, ?
>
> *At About (Help) there is an Unhandled Exception, ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (of
> course there is no help yet), but once again, it appears a lot of times.
>
> *Although it is a beta version, -or precisely because of it-, a readme. file
> is highly needed. I think it is necessary to state at least the purpose of
> the software, to whom is intended,  and what can you expect to do with it.
> It also counts for a screen that can say the same. It should be able to
> "sell"  the software and give the user a reason to buy it, I think.
>
> * Changing "gravity" (Please forgive me if it is not that!) at the clown
> scene, gives an error "Primitive has failed".
>
> Appearance -or what I see-
>
> *The installation process is neat, straightforward and almost independent of
> the user. It looks pretty good also.
> However, there is little consistency between the interface and the frog that
> welcomes the user. Maybe this is the goal (to keep it simple ). I don't know
> how changing button would compromise simplicity and objectivity.  On the
> other hand, buttons seem understandable- :-).
>
> *The right click function is obviously locked. I really hope it is used, at
> least to give a description of what is going on on the screen. Speaking of
> which, the text size -in "Tips" is big. Maybe it is my setting, 1280*1024
> but I am afraid it would be worse at 800*600.
>
> * Labels or some sort of "tip" would be nice when editing environment.
>
> * I saw the unlock dialog at least twice in unexpected -to me- places.
>
> Overall, I think it is possible more refinement, and interaction with the
> user. I am not aware of all what is behind, but I perceive there is a lot of
> work.
>
> Best Regards,
> Marjorie Graterol
>
> "David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote in message
> news:3AAB7AAA.D7C6D3B6@simberon.com...
> > Simberon is proud to announce the release of the public beta 4 version
> > of ElastoLab - the Physics Playground.  This application is written in
> > VisualWorks Smalltalk with C++ primitives.  It allows you to develop 2D
> > scenes that incorporate particles, springs, elastics, gravity, air
> > resistance, and more.  You can find ElastoLab at
> > http://www.simberon.com.
> >
> > David Buck
> > Simberon Inc.
> >
> >

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