« Colors and Patterns » works once then freezes Rev.

[Sivakatirswami]

Andre: Vous avez mes "commiserations" as  I had this exact same problem 
(Mac OSX) up to a month ago and months before that.  I could not find a 
solution. I resorted to using Eric's  marvelous little Rev_colorpicker 
1.1  to set colors. but used the control key to pick up colors from the 
environment or photos I had open.. I had to completely avoid the color 
picker in Rev. If I clicked once in the inspector and clicked on the 
background or foreground color... I got it the first time but the next 
time I was "dead in the water..." and had to reboot.

I never solved the problem... the good news is: after upgrading to 
Leopard the problem went away. But.. my upgrade to Leopard was rocky... 
the auto migration of my old user failed... What this meant was: the 
installation dropped a completely clean and brand new shiny system on my 
hard drive and a new "empty user." It seemed to be a nuisance at first, 
because I had to reinstall every single application and move all my 
files from the old user to the new user, enable root, and fix a lot of 
permissions by hand from the cmd line, chown and chmod everything the 
way it should be for the new user.

In the end I was happy. I had dropped 1000's of old preferences and 
applications support files that were no longer in use...and my system 
was even more stable than before. Recently when we have any difficulty 
with Adobe software, almost in every case it is simple a matter of 
tossing out certain preferences or application support files and letting 
Photoshop (or InDesign or Version Cue) rebuild those and the problem 
goes away.

So: suspect: corrupt preferences or support files... this echos the 
ancient days of Mac OS 6-7-8 when you had had to manually chase down 
bogus extensions and preferences which used to solve most problems... 
Unfortunately, I tried to find the exact files on Mac system that might 
related to the color picker issue, but never identified them... so, I 
just had to live with it until Leopard... This doesn't help you much... 
but is just my "testimony" At the end of the week Revolution is still 
probably one of the most stable apps on my box... Adobe apps regularly 
"die" in mid-air as does Audacity, Thunderbird and even BBEdit. 
Meanwhile Revolution is pretty rock solid through everything.

Andre.Bisseret wrote:
>
> Le 6 avr. 08 à 21:18, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
>> Bonsoir André,
>>
>> Le 6 avr. 08 à 18:46, Andre.Bisseret a écrit :
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Create a new stack
>>>
>>> Choose « Colors and Patterns in the Inspector
>>>
>>> Choose any item (backgroundColor for example) ; the Colors palette 
>>> shows up and it is possible to get a color for the stack background 
>>> ("OK" in the colors palette)
>>>
>>> But then, if I try to use again « Colors and Patterns » in 
>>> Inspector, the Colors palette does not show up again and Rev freezes 
>>> ; (Clicking any where I get a beep).
>>>
>>> Command + Maj + « . » unfreeze Rev, (not always) but it is 
>>> impossible to use again Colors and Patterns without freezing Rev again.
>>>
>>> To be able to get a new color, or a color for a new object in the 
>>> stack, I have to quit Rev and restart it  :-((.
>>>
>>> It is the first time I meet this issue (I used Colors and Patterns a 
>>> lot of times before without any problem).
>>>
>>> At first,  I thought it could be because I was using 2.9.0 but I 
>>> just tried with 2.8.1 and I get the same issue.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong ? Is there some setting I would have change 
>>> inadvertently ?
>>>
>>> Any help very much appreciated
>>>
>>> Best regards from Grenoble
>>
>> As you say that you encountered such an issue I can't reproduce here 
>> with Rev 2.8.1 and 2.9, I would be inclined to think it's a system 
>> issue.
>> Have you tried to use the color palette in Mail or TextEdit?
>>
>> Best regards from Paris,
>> Eric Chatonet.
>
> Bonjour Éric
> Merci for your answer. As you suggested, i just tried using the color 
> palette in Mail and TextEdit ; it works well in these two app. ! I 
> noticed yet that the color palette is different : in Rev the color 
> palette has to buttons at the bottom : cancel (Annuler here) and OK ; 
> when calling it in Mail or TextEdit, these two buttons are not there.
>
> Seems as if it was not the same color palette ??
>
> Seems it"s only with Rev, I keep freezing each second time I click on 
> "Colors and Patterns" in the Inspector ; seems like an infinite loop 
> (In fact, I unfreeze with "command maj point" but then I have to quit 
> Rev and relaunch it to be able (once) to choose a color :-((
>
> I am completely lost ; I don't know where to check !
>
> Best regards from Grenoble
> André
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