Severe crash with Rev 2.8.1 under MacOSX 10.4.9 (was: How to find amazing stuff)

[Joel Guillod]

May be the crash Joe reported is NOT due to the RR Search engine!!!  
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This afternoon I have experienced two unexpectedly exits from  
Revolution and I restarted my machine. And then I had a very severe  
crash during a normal development session. I had no problem under Rev  
2.7.4 for the same business. Before the crash the only "unusual"  
thing I made is printing a few cards and the print actually occured.  
But then when I exited Revolution the session has unexpectedly closed  
and I spent much time to be able to restart MacOSX (10.4.9 PPC). The  
Preview application was the only one opened apart from Revolution  
(and Finder of course) and I have not worked with any other  
applications during this user session.

If some other one experienced such a behavior, think about filling a  
bug before some catastrophic event happens... with 2.8.1.

Joel


> I just tried the Search Engine you mentioned. There appears to be a  
> very serious flaw to the Search engine - causing Revolution to  
> unexpectedly quit and probably doing other damage as well, since my  
> only recourse was to reboot. Even the dock was unresponsive. If I  
> tried to reopen Rev, it appeared to reopen with the startup Rev  
> Splash screen, but then was nowhere to be found. I realize I'm not  
> being very specific, but this all was caused (twice) by clicking in  
> the small black (color selection) box that appears in the upper  
> right portion of the Search results window, the one that says it  
> lets you select a color for keywords. As soon as the color  
> selection dialog appeared and I attempted to change the color, Rev  
> quit and the other things I mention occurred requiring that I reboot.
>
> Just thought you'd like to know, since you say you wrote that part  
> of the docs.
>
> I'm running Rev 2.8.1 on OS 10.4.9 with an Intel Mac Dual Core. The  
> first time it happened I had Isolator 1.0 turned on. The second  
> time, I did not. Neither time did I have any other applications  
> open; running  Safari as the web browser.
>
> Joe Wilkins