So since it's on the sale I took the plunge and purchased the application. It still cost me £80 in the sale which is not a cheap piece of software.
I loaded it up and instantly started to notice glaring bugs in the application.
For starters I have a 4K monitor. The application does not scale properly to this resolution and even a simple 720x1280 window does not fit on the screen so I have to scroll up and down to view the window.
When trying to drag and drop objects, you click and hold the object, but the dashed outline appears in a completely different part of the screen at the wrong size. So trying to move objects around is a pure guessing game.
The transparency does not work properly either. If you set a background image, then put an object over the top, and then put an image with transparency over the top of that, the transparent parts show the background image and not the object one level below it.
I have now had to drop my resolution back to 1920x1080 to have any hope of using the application.
For an application that should normally cost £160 I find this incredibly annoying. If this was my application I would be ashamed of myself for asking such a high price for such a crappy piece of software.
Sorry to go off on a rant, but this software costs more than the Windows 10 operating system and has the feel that it was designed by a college kid learning to program in Visual Basic in a single weekend.
If this application cost around £20 (Which is all it should cost!) then I would be a bit more forgiving.
I am tempted just to get a full refund and then design my own front end using either HTML or knocking something together using the Android SDK. Since I can control all the devices and read all the values using JSON quieries it would be simple enough to do.
I bought this software because I though it would be a nice simple way to construct the user interface, but I feel well and truly ripped off.
/End Rant!!! :)
I loaded it up and instantly started to notice glaring bugs in the application.
For starters I have a 4K monitor. The application does not scale properly to this resolution and even a simple 720x1280 window does not fit on the screen so I have to scroll up and down to view the window.
When trying to drag and drop objects, you click and hold the object, but the dashed outline appears in a completely different part of the screen at the wrong size. So trying to move objects around is a pure guessing game.
The transparency does not work properly either. If you set a background image, then put an object over the top, and then put an image with transparency over the top of that, the transparent parts show the background image and not the object one level below it.
I have now had to drop my resolution back to 1920x1080 to have any hope of using the application.
For an application that should normally cost £160 I find this incredibly annoying. If this was my application I would be ashamed of myself for asking such a high price for such a crappy piece of software.
Sorry to go off on a rant, but this software costs more than the Windows 10 operating system and has the feel that it was designed by a college kid learning to program in Visual Basic in a single weekend.
If this application cost around £20 (Which is all it should cost!) then I would be a bit more forgiving.
I am tempted just to get a full refund and then design my own front end using either HTML or knocking something together using the Android SDK. Since I can control all the devices and read all the values using JSON quieries it would be simple enough to do.
I bought this software because I though it would be a nice simple way to construct the user interface, but I feel well and truly ripped off.
/End Rant!!! :)