crash rash

[Friedrich F. Grohmann]

Chipp,  

     Thanks for your suggestion which made me aware of a possible source 
of my troubles. I tried it yet, alas, it doesn't work in my case. Somehow 
I have to assume that Rev is having serious problems with Chinese. I had 
situations were I changed the font size in a field and then "undo" -the 
application quits; add a character in a field or select the text from a 
certain point to the end and try to cut it -I had to fore quit; etc. etc. 
 Fortunately, one begins to gain painful experiences. It seems, for 
example, that one has to add a hard break within the text before the 
point up to which one wants to delete text in order to avoid crashes...

     But then, things are happening not necessarily in perfectly regular 
manner and not every crash case can be traced back to Chinese text in 
fields only. Let's say I open Rev, go to my file via the menu, save as 
and then touch the menubar -unexpected quit. What I am forced to do now 
is to copy the file in the folder and then rename it before opening it. 
At least it will save me the troubles of quitting or force quitting but I 
can hardly imagine that this is the way Rev is supposed to function.

Fritz


>Subject:     RE: crash rash
>Date:        8.2.2004 13:01 Uhr
>Received:    8.2.2004 15:24 Uhr
>From:        Chipp Walters, chipp at chipp.com
>
>Fritz,
>
>try in the msg:
>
>set the breakpoints to empty
>
>and see if it doens't fix your problem. I had a similar problem on XP and
>traced it to the above.
>
>-Chipp
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:57 PM
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: crash rash
>>
>>
>> I am working with Rev 2.1.2 on a PowerPC G4 with OS 10.3.2 . Recently,
>> Rev has been crashing with great regularity. After saving and closing the
>> application I am developing, a mere touch at the menubar will, before I
>> can pull down any menu, lead either to an "unexpected" quit or the
>> rainbow wheel.
>>
>> Rev crashed the first time when Chinese text in fields went berserk.
>> Though it  seems I've managed to circumvent similar episodes by now, the
>> present frequency  of crashes makes me wonder whether nothing more
>> fundamental is going wrong. Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Fritz