This section lists all known bugs and limitations.
If you come across any problems not mentioned below then please
report them to Andrew Trevorrow
(andrew@trevorrow.com)
or Tom Rokicki
(rokicki@gmail.com).
Problems on all platforms
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Golly is a work in progress and we hope to add more features:
support for toroidal universes, cells with more than two states,
non-rectangular selections.
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All editing operations are restricted to cells whose coordinates
are within +/- 1 billion. There is also a bug in the hashing
algorithm that prevents you from editing any cell states if the
pattern is very large (outside the +/- 1 billion limits).
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Pattern rendering needs to be optimized.
Mac OS X problems
Windows problems
Linux/GTK problems
Linux/X11 problems
Linux users are strongly advised to install GTK+ and run the GTK
version of Golly. Unfortunately the X11 version has lots of bugs:
- Resizing the main window very small can cause Golly to crash
(and another bug prevents setting the window's minimum size — sheesh!).
- No support for full screen mode.
- No support for dropping pattern files onto the main window.
- Limited clipboard support (you can only Paste after using Cut/Copy).
- You can't use Preferences > Color to change any colors.
You'll have to quit Golly and edit the *_rgb settings in GollyPrefs.
- Links in the help window can lose their color.
- No alpha channel support so inversion is used for selections.
- Can't create our own magnifying-glass cursors so arrows are used.
- Escape key doesn't cancel progress dialog.