Crash and burn

[MisterX]

Shari,

Are you using pictures in htmltext?

repeat for every control x in your stack
  save control x to xml object in stackxmlmatrix
end repeat

restore to a new stack... 

Sorry to have no better news, but I got these
crashes too... one bad image will do it...

what version of MC, OS are you using?

X (crashed and burned and rewritten...)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Shari
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 19:33
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Crash and burn
> 
> 
> I know there isn't a fix for this, and y'all are going to tell me to 
> start the entire project and rebuild every square inch of it.  But I 
> was one day away from final release, and to add weeks to the 
> release... dang it all!
> 
> Everything was working perfectly, initial beta testing was good, 
> turned it into a standalone and several things failed.  Some code 
> hadn't been saved, some coloring hadn't taken hold, the Help btn 
> wasn't the last button, small potatoes.  Fixed 'em all and next thing 
> I know, the entire thing seems to be corrupted.
> 
> Reinstalled Metacard.  No change.
> 
> Card 1 has a graphic that now does not appear on launch (and it is 
> visible and not behind anything).  Leave the card and come back and 
> voila, the graphic appears.  Nothing in the openCard scripts to make 
> it show up.
> 
> Card 1 has a field, a Table of Contents field with each line being a 
> link to a card.  Sometimes when clicking on a link, Metacard quits. 
> Other times with the SAME link, it works.
> 
> There is a Table of Contents menu that has the same problem.  So this 
> cannot be a card 1 issue.
> 
> Cards > 2 have a button that goes to cd 1.  Sometimes it works, 
> sometimes it fails (Metacard quits).
> 
> on mouseUp
>    visual effect "checkerboard"
>    go cd "Table of Contents"
> end mouseUp
> 
> This actually started when I was editing something (either field text 
> or attempting to open a script to edit it) and instead of doing the 
> deed, the beach ball started spinning, and spun and spun and spun and 
> I had to force quit.  Then almost everything I did caused the beach 
> ball to spin and spin and spin and force quit.
> 
> Pretty hopeless?
> 
> In rebuilding, will I have to rewrite every inch of text and reformat 
> it all with the colors and links etc.?  And create everything brand 
> new?
> 
> Or can I copy/paste the fields and buttons?
> 
> In other words, WHAT exactly gets corrupted?  Do objects get 
> corrupted or is it something "hidden"?
> 
> 
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