On 11/23/05, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...38...> wrote:
If you mail me the file then I'll pass it to Tim to look at.
I just submitted a bug with that file because it also causes a crash with large negative gaps (I must admit I increased the gap limits myself in the dialog in CVS, but I do think the limits of 100px were too small).
When making discrete decisions like whether a box should be moved above, left, right or below another one, naturally there are certain knife-edge points on the boundary between two of those discrete choices:
This is understandable, but note that I run into this test case on one of the first tries, i.e. without much testing.
If non-determinism can be reproduced even when starting by opening the file rather than using Undo, then I wondered whether selection order could ever change the result (in cases where two solutions are equally good, such as the examples above).
Yes, I just tried that. Even without undo it gives different results upon load. The selection method is always Ctrl+A.
Are the two possible outcomes both reasonable, or is one noticeably better/worse?
I'd say one is definitely more compact (and thus "better") than the other. But, even in the better one, at least one rect is still positioned nonoptimal - see the second bug that I just submitted.
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