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Corel Quattro Pro for Java

Corel WordPerfect for Java

CorelCHART for Java

Info Tools

Common problems for all applications:

1. The toolbar drop-down lists such as Font Size do not update their "current value" setting until the user deselects the current selection and then re-selects it (for example, by clicking outside of a Quattro Pro for Java spreadsheet cell and then selecting it again).
2. In Appletviewer java.exe, users may experience problems with the initial drawing of the workspace in the application window, in particular when there are other Windows applications in front of the Office for Java application window while it is first launching. Resizing the window will fix this problem.
3. Users may experience various other, minor redraw problems on one or more of the Java Virtual Machines (VMs) listed above. In general they are corrected by forcing a refresh, either by resizing the application window by clicking and dragging on the window edge, or by maximizing/minimizing the application window and then restoring it.
4. Undo and Redo is only available in Corel Quattro Pro for Java.
5. When closing or exiting a file which has not been saved, you are not prompted by a warning dialog box to save the document.
6. File I/O capability is not available from Netscape.
7. Importing ASCII files is slow.
8. You cannot Cut/Copy/Paste text or objects between suite applications.
9. The Font color and justification buttons do not update as you move your cursor over text.
10. Print capability is not available with this Beta. Occasionally Printing appears enabled and sends information to the Java console (or dos box); this was for testing purposes only.
11. Netscape - selecting formatting from toolbar buttons and opening drop-down menus tends to be slow.
12. No Help Buttons are set up yet.
13. File names do not appear in AppletViewer's Title Bar, only when using Java.exe.
14. Toolbar and Title bar are slow at updating when switching between open documents.
15. The Document Menu lists all open files, but does not does not indicate which document is currently being viewed when more than one file is open.
16. Netscape and other browsers - The Java Applet cannot be resized. However, there are two versions available with this Beta: (1) A High Resolution Version (shellhigh.html), designed for 1024 x 768 screens and larger (2) A Low Resolution Version (shell.html), designed for screens 800 x 600 and 640 x 480.
17. Mouse pointers have a tendency not to show busy cursors. Also, mouse cursors are slow to update in Netscape and may not indicate the proper state of the application.
18. Shortcut keys have yet to be implemented. On Unix and Macintosh machines they do not use the standard shortcut modifier keys (CTRL, COMMAND, and ALT).

Corel WordPerfect for Java

Embedding (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Formatting (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Keyboard (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Other (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Ruler (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Toolbar (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

Zoom (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

File I/O (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Upon opening a saved document, cursor is not located in top left portion of document, but in same location as when document was saved.
2. When closing or exiting a file which has not been saved, you are not prompted by a warning dialog box to save the document.
3. Importing ASCII files is slow.
4. The Document Menu lists all open files, but does not does not indicate which document is being currently viewed when more than one file is open.

Embedding (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Embedded components in WordPerfect are not page anchored, but character anchored. Cut/Copy/Page functionality is enabled only by selecting component.
2. Hitting backspace key while an embedded component is selected will delete the component if the component is to the left of the cursor. If component is selected and to the right of the cursor, hitting the spacebar will delete it. This is correct behavior given that embedded objects are character anchored and not page anchored.
3. It is difficult to exit embedded components when more than one is added to a document, thus it is recommended for this pre-beta that embedding be limited to one component. Additionally, it may be difficult to exit an embedded component if it has been inserted on a new line without text preceding it.
4. There is a slight display refresh problem when resizing an embedded component.

Formatting (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Toolbar buttons do not update properly, but display their last settings when you switch back and forth between documents, open a new document, or close the current document.
2. Cannot manually edit Font Size field in Format/Font Dialog Box.
3. Cannot select the first bullet of a bulleted list.
4. If you center or right justify a bulleted list after it has been indented, bullets will not relocate properly and remain indented.
5. Bullets of bulleted lists do not copy along with text if bullet button is turned off at insertion point.
6. Underline preview has not been enabled under Format/Font Dialog Box but is available from the Toolbar.
7. Strike-out formatting is not available, although the option appears in the Format/Font Dialog Box.
8. Text does not wrap to proper location when bulleted paragraph is indented.
9. The Font color and justification buttons do not update as you move your cursor over text.
10. Netscape - Application will freeze when the following steps are duplicated: enter some text, select text from left to right, format text (i.e., bold or italics formatting etc.), then while text is still selected hit the copy button. After these preliminary steps, position cursor at about two lines below last line of copied text and hit the paste button. The application will hang, if after pasting text, you attempt to click anywhere within the range of the area which was copied.
11. Cursor is hidden from view if you select right justify before typing. However, cursor does appear as soon as you click in document.

Copy/Paste (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Cannot Cut/Copy/Paste text or objects between suite applications.
2. Netscape - Application will freeze when the following steps are duplicated: enter some text, select text from left to right, format text (ie. bold or italics formatting etc.), then while text is still selected hit the copy button. After these preliminary steps, position cursor at about two lines below last line of copied text and hit the paste button. The application will hang, if after pasting text, you attempt to click anywhere within the range of the area which was copied.
3. Sometimes the paste button sticks and needs to be selected twice.
4. Periodically, hitting the copy button immediately after formatting while text is still selected will delete text as soon as you click in window. However, contents do get copied to clipboard and can be pasted.

Ruler (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Ability to move, delete and add tabs on ruler has not been implemented yet.
2. Tabs by default are set every 0.5".
3. Ruler gets turned off when you switch focus out of page (i.e,. switching focus between pages, opening or closing documents).

Zoom (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. The Zoom Menu does not highlight the current zoom level.
2. Zoom setting is not retained when page focus is changed (i.e., switching between documents, closing current document, or opening a new document).

Other (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Undo and Redo is disabled.
2. Marquee selection is extremely slow (especially when using Netscape). When selecting large amounts of text, it is important to bear in mind that although application may seem frozen, it isn't, it is just slow. It is recommended that you do not use the scroll bars or other keys but wait for the marquee selection to complete. This problem will be resolved in future Betas.
3. Cursor picks up text attributes to the right of cursor, not the left.
4. Cannot always select the last character of a line or paragraph if text is right justified. This problem tends to occur if the character is narrow (i.e., i or l)
5. Netscape - When text has been formatted or when window is in zoomed view, typing quickly may cause text to flicker, displaying other formatting settings temporarily. In addition, marquee selection of formatted text may have the same effect.
6. There is a slight display problem with left side of page. When window is not maximized, left margin, guideline and 2 or 3 characters of text may appear hidden.

Toolbar (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

• Periodically, hitting the copy button immediately after formatting and while text is still selected will delete text as soon as you click in window. However, contents do get copied to clipboard and can be pasted.

Keyboard (Corel WordPerfect for Java)

1. Shift + Tab does not backtab, but tabs cursor forward to next tab setting.
2. Shortcut keys have yet to be implemented. On Unix and Macintosh machines they do not use the standard short cut modifier keys (CTRL, COMMAND, and ALT).

Info Tools

Calculator

E-mail Client

General (Info Tools)

Notepad

Scheduler/Calendar

General (Info Tools)

1. When you are running the Info Tools applications from Office for Java, the window will initially open up behind the Office for Java's window and it will occasionally fall behind it as you use the application. Simply bring the Info Tools' window back to the foreground by clicking on it. It is also possible to start multiple instances of Info Tools from the Office for Java toolbar.
2. The toolbars and menus do not currently match those of the Office for Java. The File and Edit menus will appear but are not implemented or used in some applications in this release.
3. You cannot Cut/Copy/Paste between these applications, or between the Info Tools and Corel Office for Java.
4. At 640x480 screen display resolution, the applications should be run maximized.
5. The applications can take awhile to close down, especially if you have entered a lot of data (including downloaded E-mail messages). Please do not force the PIM to exit until its window disappears or you may lose data. There is no progress indicator for this process.
6. The applications can take some time to load from the Office for Java or the Shell, and there is no progress indicator to show this at the moment.
7. The InfoTools information file will not save information when launched through Netscape or the Applet Viewer. This is due to due to the security restrictions placed on Java applets by the current releases of browser Java Virtual Machines.
8. Right click menus may redraw improperly after second display.
9. Scroll bars may not function as expected on some platforms.
10. When running InfoTools as an applet, the pop-up menus appear with the "Unsigned Applet" warning.
11. The clock in the status bar is in 24-hour format with an indication of am/pm. This is not a proper format and will be changed.
12. The labels for the month calendar in the upper left corner of the InfoTools window may not be centered for all months.
13. The calculator button in the top-right corner is temporary and will be added to the standard toolbar in the future.

Scheduler/Calendar

Known Scheduler and Calendar Problems

1. There is no new appointment dialog and only one day appointments are supported in this release.
2. Alarms and Event recurrence has been disabled for this release. It is possible to store alarm and event recurrence information using the appointment properties panel, but these properties are not functional.
3. Appointment categories are not implemented in this release.
4. The spin buttons with the tab panel changes which tabs are visible. To switch tab panels, click on the appropriate tab.
5. Headings at the top of the week view are not visible in this release.
6. Switching between the last day of one month and the first day of the next month in week view may cause one appointment to appear several times.
7. Appointments are not indicated in the month view for this release.
8. Controls may appear cut off in the appointment tab panel, especially on the general tab, if large system fonts are used.
9. The Edit menu is not used in the Scheduler.
10. The year view may not draw white backgrounds on all of the months the first time the InfoTools window is resized.
11. The text on the tab panel tabs may have an outline around it when running InfoTools through Netscape.

Address Book

Known Address Book Problems

1. In this release, some scroll bars are not fully implemented. It known that the horizontal scroll bar is not appearing in the address list when several fields are selected to be displayed.
2. The drag an drop icon may flicker depending on the speed of the machine and how InfoTools was launched.
3. A temporary toolbar is being used in this release. To create a new address book, click on the New Address Book label above the list of books in the bottom left corner of the Scheduler/Email window.
4. The address book list scroll bar may not immediately reflect the addition of several address books.
5. When running InfoTools through Netscape, the column headings will have a white background, instead of grey.
6. The scroll bar for the edit fields at the right of the InfoTools window is not implemented in this release.
7. In this release, new addresses created in the All address book will also appear in the first book in the address book after the All book.
8. It is not possible to delete the All address book in this release. It is also not possible to set the custom fields in the All book.
9. When running through Netscape, the right click menu will appear with an "Unsigned Applet" label at the bottom in this release. This results in one entry being cut off.
10. The Edit menu is not implemented for the Address Book.
11. Renaming the address books may cause a temporary shadow of the text to appear. This will disappear when the Scheduler/Email window is refreshed. The Scheduler/Email window can be refreshed immediately by minimizing and restoring it.
12. The sorting is case sensitive in this release. This will be fixed in future releases.
13. If the InfoTools window is maximized, it is possible to display null fields in the edit area at the right. Dragging these fields has no effect, but will leave outlines and an error message will appear in the Java Console window.

Notepad

Known Notepad Problems

1. Importing text does not work from any of the applications other than E-mail, and that text often appears improperly formatted.
2. Word wrap is not working properly.
3. There's no way to rename folders.
4. The folder tree control is not consistent with the rest of the InfoTools applications: You cannot move folders around by drag and drop, you cannot rename notes or folders directly in the tree, and you can't select multiple notes by holding the SHIFT or CTRL key.
5. Marquee does not resize around note title in folder tree after the title has been changed.
6. Select a note, press "Delete Note", the note's title and text remain in the main application area.
7. It is not yet possible to place notes in the root of the tree, they can only be placed in a folder.
8. Creating multiple New Notes at once will result in several selection marquees. This is a display problem which will be fixed. It can be corrected by clicking on another note.

E-mail Client

Known E-mail Client Problems

1. Cannot send or receive mail when running the E-mail client through Netscape Navigator due to the security restrictions placed on Java applets. Run it standalone or in Applet Viewer. Similarly, you cannot save your e-mail messages unless you are running it standalone or modify your Applet Viewer properties to be able to read/write on your local hard drive.
2. It takes a VERY long to time receive E-mail messages with large attachments, or to forward mail with attachments. There is currently no progress indicator while this is occurring which might lead you to believe the application has hung.
3. When you are creating an E-mail message the text-entry area flickers as you type, this becomes more noticeable when you have a large body of text.
4. Occasionally you will not be able to switch between folders in the tree-view area by clicking with the left mouse button. Use the right mouse button if this ever happens.
5. There will already be a text-entry cursor present in the E-mail editor and in the signature area, but you will need to click on this area to be able to type. If you click on a field (i.e. the To: field) a second text-entry cursor will appear.
6. If the E-mail client ever experiences difficulty logging onto a POP3 server, it will ask you to re-enter your password. This *may* be because your password was entered incorrectly, but it might also happen if the server refuses you access, if your username is incorrect, or even if your POP3 server is invalid.
7. The text formatting options in the E-mail editor's Edit menu item under Style, Size, and Color never display a check mark next to them when they are active.
8. The date and time of a mail message indicates the date and time the message was retrieved from the server, and not the date and time the message was sent.
9. If you set the E-mail client to retrieve mail messages automatically after a certain amount of time, and you are in the 'Setup' options when this occurs, an error message will appear in the Java Console window.
10. When sending/forwarding/replying to an E-mail message with an attachment, you will notice garbage characters appearing in the status line at the bottom of the window.
11. The E-mail's various dialog boxes never appear with the focus properly set inside them, and you cannot move between fields using the TAB and SHIFT-TAB keys.
12. When sorting E-mail, it will sort upper case characters before lower case characters.
13. When you use the display filters (the Filter button on the toolbar), the first time you apply a filter the change is made dynamically. If you apply a second filter, the change is only made if you switch to another folder and then return.
14. The 'Filters' tab in the Email Client Preferences dialog does not do anything at the moment.
15. You can delete a folder from the tree-view control and it will not warn you if there are any messages in that folder; they will be permanently lost.
16. The attachment viewers are not yet enabled.
17. The 'Print' buttons do not yet do anything.
18. Cannot drag & drop multiple mail messages to the folders at the same time.
19. If your system is set to use Large Fonts then some of the dialog boxes will have text cut off or missing.
20. When running as an applet in Netscape, you will have the Unsigned Applet Warning attached to your pop-ups and some dialogs. Sometimes this warning covers text (i.e. if you right click on the Subject: field you will notice that Subject is missing from the pop-up window).
21. If you save a draft message with a priority of Low or High, when you re-open the draft it will have reset itself to priority Normal.
22. The delete key does not do anything, you have to use the Delete button.
23. If you rename a server using the right mouse click in the tree-view control, the changed name will not be reflected in the Email Client Preferences dialog's Servers tab.

Calculator

Known Calculator Problems

1. This calculator does not take order of operations into account.

1. There are a few known floating point problems. Trigonometric calculations which should give zero or undefined may return an extremely small or large value, respectively.
2. In scientific mode, the display at the top of the calculator may be cut off slightly.
3. 2 - 2.01 will return the incorrect value of -1 instead of -0.01 (as will most cases of # - #.01 where # is a natural number).
4. There are several messages echoed to the Java Console window by the Calculator. These messages will not appear in future releases and they are will not cause any problems.

Corel Quattro Pro for Java

Cell Referencing (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Cut, Copy, and Paste (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Editing (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Find/Replace (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Formatting (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Formulas and Function Wizard (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Inserting (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Keyboard (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Known Quattro Problems (most important to least important)

Range Name (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Refresh Problems (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Sort (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Undo/Redo (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Worksheet (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

Known Quattro Problems (most important to least important)

1. No online help is implemented yet.
2. Most shortcut keys are disabled in this release. Cut (Ctrl-X), Copy (Ctrl-C), and Paste (Ctrl-V) are the only shortcuts enabled.
3. Greyed out items are not enabled in this release.
4. Keyboard loses focus if font size button is clicked. Clicking on the spreadsheet returns focus to the keyboard.
5. When entering a range name in the name box (left most box on formula bar), pressing enter will not return focus to the worksheet. Clicking on a cell will return the focus.

Refresh Problems (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Refresh problems occur when borders are applied.
2. Contents of the formula bar are highlighted after you switch pages.
3. When cells are selected from bottom to top or right to left, refreshing problems occur when auto-filling, sorting, the application of formatting, or windows being minimized then maximized.
4. When the worksheet has a default sheet color applied, cutting data and then pasting on to any page will display the background colors of the cells with data correctly and the cells that were in the block that were empty will have a white background color until the screen is refreshed.

Auto-fill (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

• Cannot auto-fill formatting (background color, text colors, borders, etc.)

Cell Referencing (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

• Cutting and pasting a formula will not maintain cell references.

Cut, Copy, and Paste (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Paste to many does not work under Netscape.
2. All borders on the page will be deleted when cutting data anywhere on the sheet then refreshing the screen.

Editing (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

• Background cell colors and borders are not deleted when edit, delete..., row or column is selected.

Find/Replace (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Once the find/replace dialog box is open, you cannot use the replace button to replace multiple occurrences of data.
2. With data in certain cell positions, for example, B1 and A2 contain "test" -- Clicking on Find/Replace, enter "test" into the find pattern input box and click find next button. Clicking the find next button two more times will generate a "Cannot find matching data" error dialog box instead of returning to the top of the spreadsheet and starting the search from there. Clicking on the replace all button will generate a non-fatal exception.
3. Once the replace or replace all button is pressed, the cell pointer does not update its screen position when using the find next button.
4. Doing a replace all on a large number of cells, for example, 15000 cells, will take a noticeable length of time to complete.

Formatting (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. The Justified menu option in the Format, Alignment menu is not implemented yet.
2. Cannot apply cell color by blocking cells right to left or bottom to top.
3. Color drop down button on properties page drops behind the image selection input box.
4. Applying two or more colors horizontally then overlapping a color vertically will result in extra rows of the horizontal colors applied when the screen is refreshed.
5. Resizing a cell with a border applied and the clicking the down arrow on the vertical scroll bar will cause the border to return to the default size. Clicking the up arrow on the vertical scroll bar will return the border to the correct size.
6. When a background cell color is applied to a cell or a range of cells, multiple cell pointer may appear after a screen refresh.
7. Rounding errors will result when numbers where the first digit after the decimal is greater than or equal to 5 have a number format with .00 (i.e. 0.00 or #,###.00) in them applied, for example, 1.511 will return 2.00 when the 0.00 number format is applied.

Formulas and Function Wizard (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Formulas will not accept scientific notation when the number has a plus (+) or minus (-) sign for the power, for example, 1e-2 and 1e+8 will not work but 1e4 will work.
2. Formulas only accept the TRUE and FALSE strings as boolean -- not 1 or 0.
3. Formulas (COS, SIN, etc.) will not take empty cells as 0 but return #VALUE instead.
4. Range names have to be three characters or more for formulas to reference them.
5. You are not able to use the sheet name together with a range name in a formula, for example, sheet name is "Sheet1" and range A1..A3 has the range name of "Test", trying =sum(Sheet1:Test) will give #SYNTAX error.

Inserting (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

• Trying insert a row on a sheet that contains a column where each cell in the column contains data, the row will not be inserted. The same thing will happen if you try to insert a column in the sheet where each cell in the row contains data.

Keyboard (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Most shortcut keys are disabled in this release. Cut (Ctrl-X), Copy (Ctrl-C), and Paste (Ctrl-V) are the only shortcuts enabled.
2. Keyboard loses focus if font size button is clicked. Clicking on the spreadsheet returns focus to the keyboard.

Range Name (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Range names have to be three characters or more for formulas to reference them.
2. Range names are treated differently when the same range is selected from top to bottom and bottom to top, etc.
3. Cannot reference range names using the equal sign, for example, if range name is "test", typing "=test" in a cell returns nothing.

Sort (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Sorting an already sorted list will result in the keyboard losing focus. Clicking on the spreadsheet again will return focus to the spreadsheet.
2. Cell background color and borders do not move with the data when sorting is applied.

Undo/Redo (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. Cannot undo cell background colors application.
2. Cannot undo border application.
3. Cannot undo column/row resizes.
4. Cannot undo column/row inserts and deletes.
5. Cannot undo sorting.
6. Cannot undo inserting/deleting embedded objects.

Worksheet (Corel Quattro Pro for Java)

1. In a worksheet containing a lot of data, or embedded components, rapidly pressing scrollbars may cause the program to hang.
2. When selecting columns or row with the mouse using the column/row headers, you have to jiggle the mouse to keep the worksheet scrolling.
3. Cannot rename a sheet back to a default page name. For example, after you rename sheet A to Bob, trying to rename sheet Bob back to A won't work.
4. Data that exceeds the width of the column is not displayed on screen.
5. When the worksheet is zoomed (i.e. 200%), text that is entered will show up in the default text size and will return to the expected size after you press enter.
6. Under Netscape, clicking on the scrollbars will cause a non-fatal security exception in the Java console. This is normal.
7. There is no text cursor in the cell when the backspace key is used to enter edit mode.
8. You will lose the ability to retrieve columns and rows if you drag the columns/rows up onto the row/column headings. Once this happens, you also lose the ability to select entire columns/rows by clicking on the column/row indicators.
9. If you apply a large font (i.e. 72 point font), the row will not automaticall resize the row height. You have to manually resize the row height to have the data fit in the cell.
10. Formula bar input box will not wrap around when text hits the end of the input box. Text is still being accepted, but the box doesn't scroll.
11. When using the mouse to marquee cells for a formula, the screen will not scroll so you are limited to the current screen for your data selection.

CorelCHART for Java

1. Current UI is not complete.
2. Chart is very slow to draw under Unix operating system.
3. Chart numeric display is limited to 2 digits accuracy. This should be edittable in future betas.
4. You can't manipulate 3d charts.
5. No Chart wizard.
6. Chart data can't be switched from rows to columns for plotting.
7. Some updating problems with 3d charts.