standalone is crashing on Mac OS 8.0

[Ken Ray]

Nicolas,

Is the alwaysBuffer on for the images as well? If so, you should probably
turn it off (it'll save memory). The only other thing I can think of is that
the MC application has a larger memory partition defined for it than the
standalones it creates (although I'm pretty sure this isn't the case, but
you can check in Get Info).

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "kweto" <kweto at ma.nma.ne.jp>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 8:06 AM
Subject: standalone is crashing on Mac OS 8.0


> Hello,
>
> I've a relatively simple stack for creating illustrated bingo-cards. The
> problem is that, though it runs fine under Mac OS8.0 as a stack and also
> under Windows as both a stack and a standalone, it continually crashes the
> system when it runs as a standalone on Mac OS 8.0. Specifically, the crash
> happens while the script is setting the fileNames of the 25 image objects,
> laid out in a 5x5 grid; after the 10th or so image objects has been
> successfully loaded with an image (jpg or gif), the image-object that
comes
> immediately after the last image that successfully loaded will remain
empty
> (blank) and, instead, I can literally hear the computer's HD grinding into
> some kind of looped sound, which, after a few seconds, stops and then
> everything on-screen freezes.
>
> Perhaps a memory issue? But, if so, why would it work as a stack but not
as
> a standalone? And, just in case, I tried setting the stack's buffer to
both
> "always on" and "always off". No go with either.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Nicolas Cueto
>
>