Display getting cropped to the right on Tiger

[tgos]

If this is a duplicate, I'm sorry, but I have not found any ticket for that. On my Mac (10.4) I often see the issue that the display is cropped to the right. That means the progress bars go beyond the right window border and I cannot see the pause or reveal buttons. Sometimes pausing one download and resuming it fixes the issue, but not always. Usually the problem occurs directly after starting the client, it won't happen once the client is already running and the display is correct. I'll post a screenshot to show the problem. Usually I have this problem if I have so many torrents running that the right scrollbar is shown. There never is a scrollbar shown an the window button, thus I cannot even get to the cropped part by scrolling.

[tgos]

Screenshot illustrating the problem

[livings124]

This issue only occurs on Tiger 10.4. Since Transmission 1.5 will require Leopard 10.5, this is a non-issue.

[tgos]

IOW I have to upgrade my operating system for over 100 bucks to get an error-free Transmission (or at least one you can work with)? Time to switch to another P2P client, I guess.

BTW, how do you know it only occurs on Tiger? If it is a duplicate of a known issue, you should close it as duplicate and not as wontfix. If it is no duplicate, the issue is unknown and without analyzing what is actually causing the issue in the first place, how can you make an assumption like that?

[livings124]

This is a known issue that is Tiger-only. I'm not sure if there was a ticket - feel free to hunt it down and change the reason for closing..

Transmission is a free application written by the developers on their free time. Dropping 10.4 support allows for new features to be added that require 10.5 functionality; it also makes development a lot easier in general. Leopard has been out for over a year (1.5 years by the time Transmission 1.5 is out) - Apple already requires it for many of their apps such as iLife and iWork.

If you can come up with a fix for this issue on 10.4 feel free. The code is available and I would gladly add it to a 1.4 point release.

[Robby]

Yep, this is an annoying problem in 1.4x that is there everytime I launch T. A workaround is to click the green button twice.
Please re-open. This is a valid problem, at least for 1.4x.

[livings124]

Can those with issues try ​http://files.me.com/livings124/hki3qg

[livings124]

Better yet, try ​http://files.me.com/livings124/5k68hi

[livings124]

Rolcol confirms that this is fixed, but I would like more feedback.

[Robby]

It is fixed in that last build, yes. :)

[Rolcol]

I don't have Tiger... You may have mistaken me for someone else. If I said something by accident that made it seem like I tested it, I'm sorry but I haven't.

[livings124]

Whoops, it was rob-to86.

[livings124]

The reports on the forums have been mixed. Let's err on the side of caution and not mark as fixed for now.

[tgos]

Since the latest update the problems does not always occur, but still pretty often. Best known work around when it happens: Making the filter bar displayed and switching between the different categories there before switching back to "all" and it is displayed correctly again. As a Mac developer I doubt that this is a bug in the OS. I don't know of any other application that has this issue, nor have I ever had to code around a comparable issue in any of my applications.