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Comment by joeguilmette | Hacker News Reader

Great idea for an app, however: it doesn't work

-Click 'Next artwork' cycles through 2-3 of the same painting

-Selecting every single 'Technique' throws a 'No high resolution artwork found in those filters'.

For a $5 app this is not good. I've contacted Apple Support for a refund. Sorry to be harsh, but shame on you for selling software that was clearly not tested.

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Not the OP, but as a dev I can not thank you enough for your post/feedback. Highlighting areas where the project can be improved is infinitely more useful than getting told the project is "awesome" or even worse "somebody else, who is not me, would buy this" - neither of which improve my project or give me cashflow.

- This appears to be a OSX/Yosemite bug. If you examine the thumbnail in display preferences, the artwork is changed by artful, but the OS fails to update for a few people, for some reason. Reports are that a reboot fixes it.

-I just tested it and selecting all techniques does work. Perhaps you had other filters selected that narrowed the return set too much? Try making your filter selections more broad.

What is your specific configuration?

I have a '13 MBA with Yosemite.

I had no other filters selected, only 100% of the techniques...

Ok I think I have an idea for this. It was happening for me (only alternating between the same two pieces, even after multiple reboot). The "fix" was to toggle the "Resize small art to fill screen" which completely removes this repeated image effect, while re-enabling it brings back the problem.

Edit: nevermind, problem came back after a few "Change art now" button presses, even after toggling all the checkboxes in the top-left.

Rebooting does not solve the problem. Artwork doesn't change every hour. I can get it to choose new Artwork sometimes by killing and restarting the App.

"This appears to be a OSX/Yosemite bug"... I have to wonder. If you didn't test your OSX app on the latest version of OSX... Did you even test it at all?

I'm sorry you have been having problems. It was developed on Yosemite, and I did test. Unfortunately the bug was difficult for me to reproduce until just recently. This is a bug only some have been seeing related to how the OS caches images. I have submitted a fix, and the update is currently waiting for approval by Apple. Hopefully it will be available on the App Store soon.

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