I've been collecting a list of fixes and improvements I'd like to see made to Suunto's Dive Manager software. Before trying to submit it to them, I thought I'd see if any of you would like to add to this list. Some of my complaints have to do with the software not behaving like a "normal" Windows application, and others have to do with the nature of the application itself.
Bug/Suggestion List for Suunto Dive Manager Software
Bug/Suggestion List for Suunto Dive Manager Software
- After pasting text, the cursor stays before the newly pasted text. This runs contrary to all standard Windows applications that support pasting cut or copied text. The cursor should move to the end of the newly pasted text.
- Managing a dives gear list is very buggy and seemingly unpredictable. Sometimes when you add gear, say OK, and then re-open that dive, all of the gear disappears from the gear list. And although you the software lets you insert and delete gear on the Dive Gear tab, when you close that dive and then reopen it, the gear isnt as you left it. Sometimes inserted gear goes away if there was gear there already. Deleting items makes the items change in a very strange way. Deleting all items and re-adding all gear at the same time seems to be the only thing that works.
- When you Cancel out of the Update Dive window, you should not be prompted Do you want to save the changes to this record?. [Worse yet, this prompt appears even if you didnt make changes to this record.]
- It would be very nice to have Previous and Next buttons on the Update Dive window as there are in the Graph window.
- Along those lines, in the Graph window, when at the first dive, the Previous button should be disabled (grayed-out) and when at the last dive, the Next button should be disabled.
- Double-clicking on the window icon of the Dive Log window, the Update Dive window, and the Graph window should close that window. [Note: double-clicking on the main Dive Manager application windows icon does properly close the Dive Manager application.]
- Sometimes the color shading of the Dive column doesnt change shading color when the dive series starts over at 1. This results in adjacent dive series being the same color.
- Why not use that color shading across the entire row of the Dives window and not just for the Dive column?
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I know that there have been other threads about this topic in the past, but the ones I saw seemed to contain general gripes ("I don't like ..."). Let's see if we can ask for specific behavior or display changes and see if we can get some action from them.
Thanks.
