Re: « Colors and Patterns » works once then freezes Rev.

Tue Apr 8 11:28:31 EDT 2008

Sivakatirswami,
Thank you so much for your long answer.
The fact that you had the same problem makes me feel less alone ;-))

I got the problem with Leopard so I will have to live with it waiting  
for the next update of it ;-) (I think I could reinstall my system and  
disk but, currently, I don't feel up to do that ;-((

I think your idea of corrupt preferences could be the good one ! I  
will try to search a bit in this way,  even if it is unlikely I will  
find a solution if you did'nt find one yourself.

Again, thanks a lot

Best regards from Grenoble
André

Le 7 avr. 08 à 23:16, Sivakatirswami a écrit :
> 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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