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- From: anwar+@cs.cmu.edu (Anwar Mohammed)
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- Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
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- Date: 23 Aug 92 14:02:46 GMT
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- In article <BtEIqq.AIq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >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.
-
- Yup, that did it. However, I can hardly imagine that this makes
- Framemaker crash and/or log you out "all the time" and renders Framemaker
- "unusable".
-
- >
- >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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