Bugs, Crashes and Suggestions

I am a bit late but i have started beta testing FF4 and it seems really good. Here is everything so far and i will post other bugs as i find them.

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Bugs / Crashes -
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When i installed V4 and run it from the default shortcut the program starts (visible in task manager) but is never visible. I am guessing it is trying to render or something also as it's CPU was 50% always, after a long time (i waited hoping it would load) it closed.

I then found out that if i go to the bin folder and run Filter Forge x86.exe directly it works fine. So something seems broken with the installers shortcut setup.

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Following these steps will crash FF4 -

1) Load a filter with older components such as "Decorative Tiles" then go into the Filter Editor

2) Group a node which uses older Color controls (in this case Perlin Noise with Color 1 and Color 2)

3) Drag in a new Color control from the Components dialog

4) Use the shortcuts Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V and the program will crash

I just noticed a bug with the commandline, when you use the .png filetype as a output it will render jpg format but renamed as .png instead so basically it's not saving the correct image format.

Here is a example of the code which will do this -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Tasks>

<Task>
<Image value="" width="100" height="100" />
<Selection value="" />
<Result path="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\Output\000.png" />
<Filter value="C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Filter Forge 4\My Filters\Filter.ffxml" />
<Preset value="0" />
</Task>

</Tasks>

Yes, copying and pasting color controls has already been reported.

As for your command-line task, everything works as expected. The format should be specified by the format="PNG" attribute of the Result tag, not by the file name.

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With the FF4 beta also installed alongside FF3, FF4 will load in task manager but never appears on screen.

Cannot reproduce: I have all versions since FF1 installed, and double-clicking an ffxml file opens the filter in FF4. Please provide more detail and post the filter in question.