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I got a message saying that Vensim would need to be restarted. Then the model window flashed, which I assumed meant Vensim closed and relaunched. Is that the case? if not, flashing is weird. Eventually Vensim crashed and I had to relaunch, and the toolbars didn't have labels. So I guess Vensim didn'...

I feel I've done this in the past, but this is a clean installation of Vensim on Windows... How do I remove the toolbar button labels? I'm trying to regain screen real estate. I tried uncheck "Show labels", using smaller icons, etc. Vensim does relaunch, but the labels remain. Here are my ...

You might not be trying to follow official guidelines like a good macOS app, but it should be easy to capture a keystroke and call the correct command. It can be platform specific code that is #ifdef'd if needed. Doable if you want to spend the time.

the more that I use Vensim with my MDL in a git repository, the more that I really wish Reform and Clean were enabled by default. I suggest turning it on by default, using the "Alphabetical by Group" and "Terse" settings. Or maybe "As originally entered" by default, but...

in macOS Vensim v8.0, if you hover your mouse over a variable, the Comments and Units text that you'd like to see are horribly garbled. Screenshot attached.

In Vensim macOS v8.0, Page Up and Page Down don't change views unless you click in the diagram window. Reproduce: 1. using the view menu (lower left corner) choose any view. 2. Try using Page Up/Down to move to another view. (Doesn't work) (FYI: on macbook, Page Up is fn-UpArrow and Page Down is fn-...

The bottom of the variable name text is cut off in the Equation Editor window. This makes text harder to read.

Screenshot attached.

The text in a Units Mismatch window doesn't wrap, making it useless.

Screenshot attached.

In macOS v8, you can't copy and paste text.

Try: highlight the units text, press cmd-C, click in the Comments text field, cmd-V to paste. This doesn't work.

Vensim has some really handy keyboard shortcuts/accelerators. One big set is the number key row for choosing your tools, instead of clicking toolbar buttons. On macOS v8, there are so many different mouse focus and window focus issues that using the keyboard is basically impossible. For instance, yo...

Maybe similar to the double-line graph artifacts, I'm seeing that the text of variables names gets doubled up when I switch between the Lock tool and the Hand tool.

Version 8.0 macOS

Screenshots of both tools are attached.

Hand tool is okay; Lock tool has the doubled text.

I was clicking to move and close a custom graph definitions window (that you get when click "Modify" in the custom graphs window) and Vensim just disappeared. Total crash. Happened so suddenly I'm not sure how I could reproduce. Stack trace below. ================================== Process...

In macOS v8.0, the button text in the toolbar overlaps. Hard to read. Screenshot attached.

See attached.

Vensim 8 beta 23.

Well this showed another dialog bug, with text falling off the screen. I don't know what it says, but the setting isn't "Raw" so I assume it should be zooming in like it is on Windows. Attached screenshot with the Control Panel setting and the Graph. Two issues now: 1. Not adjusting y-axis...

Before posting, I checked my toolbar button (right-clicked on it). What setting should I be looking for? "tight" and "loose"?

Does v8 only produce vdfx files? If so, I think what you suggest makes sense. Another option is to only show the extension if there are two files with the same root name, otherwise hide it. That way vdf (old) files don't look funny unless you have two datasets with the same name.

The legends on graphs for macOS v8beta19 include the file extension (.vdf or .vdfx). They don't on vensim on windows v7.x.

See examples on this issue:

http://www.ventanasystems.co.uk/forum/v ... 272#p27346

Another pair.

I was using a model today that someone shared with me from Windows. They wanted me to look at a graph to see the behavior. The graphs are different between Vensim (win 7.x) and Vensim (mac 8beta18). The Windows graphs autoscale the y-axis and the macOS graphs don't (they have zero at the origin). Se...

in Vensim DSS v8 beta 19, many/all of the toolbar buttons are very low resolution, which makes them difficult to read. This makes the user interface harder to use (extra time, every time, to read it) and harder to discover (because harder to discern what the icon is supposed to be). Examples: * what...

I think the images in the toolbar have strange black edges around them, with weird backgrounds sometimes too. In the attached screenshot, the Subscript window button has the black line artifacts on the left and bottom edges. The Control Panel button has weirder background issues (seems like more tha...

Standard practice on macOS is that the application menu is the name of the application, and then the first time is "About <appname>". Vensim DSS (v8 beta 19) has the "Vensim DSS" misspelled (without a space) and then "About Vensim" instead of "About Vensim DSS"...

I opened the Options window (under VensimDSS menu) in v8 beta and the window doesn't have focus. The title bar of the window is dim and weird looking for being frontmost.

Is there a way to use a command file to export at Vensim model to the XMILE file format? Tom thought there might be, but I don't know the syntax.

If not, please add this feature to v8.