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- From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:10:59 GMT
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- Since I've gottten so much mail on this topic, I thought I'd demo a
- recent problem with Frame. Here's something that I bumped into
- recently that crashes Frame 3.0 on a NeXT 2.1 machine:
-
- Go to the References page (this probably works anywhere though) and
- turn on snap-to-grid w/ 1/8". Lay out a frame that is about 3" wide
- and 2" high. Inside the frame, place a line segment of any width.
- Place the line segment at the top of the frame after drawing the line
- segment. Shrink the frame to use up the most minimal space to hold the
- line segment. If you shrank the bottom or top to make the frame
- (essentially) 0" high, then Frame will quit instantly giving you no
- chance to save your work whatsoever. It will die because of something
- like "locked focus on wrong view" error (it'll be logged in the
- Console log). Really incredibly helpful when I used Frame and hadn't
- saved in the past 4 minutes and lost all the work. Now I've got the
- auto-save set to one minute.
-
- I didn't think that Frame would die when I originally did this, and I
- didn't even do it to "test" Frame, I just thought that since it knew
- how high the line segment is (I made mine 3 points high), that it
- would make the inside of the frame 3 points high as well. Alas, it
- dies and never saves the work anywhere before it does so.
-
- The other problems that I have had with Frame have been random, hence
- I cannot come up with repeatable demos of them, but I have been able
- to demo this problem on request. At first, I thought that my problems
- were RAM problems, but all other apps (and the OS as well) work as
- expected, so it has to be a Frame problem.
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
- -- No NeXTmail please
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