Does your MC crash too?

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Thanks Ken,

Actually, I set an image (not in any group) as a background picture (it 
doesn't need resizing and no mess with patterns' sizes.)

The image was imported in the beginning so it has not changed. 
There is a second image which servers as a viewer for this image browser. 
This means the image changes frequently.

The only operation that affects the browser image is rotating the image 
using the angle property and resizing it to fit the
window. 

The background image was never resized or manipulated. I did a blend 
change because it was nicer. Wop, the stack size
jumped from 100KBs (approx) to 3MB... I suspect the image was decompressed 
for the blend effect. 

To see if this was the cause of the jump in sizes, I tried to reset the 
image effect to srcCopy. Saved, no prob but no change in stack size 
(arghh),
so I restored the image blend, I saved and crash!

--

In the htmltext problems, I made a stack that downloads a website's 
images. So in the start I made a preview of the page in a field where
the images were nicely displayed. But the stack started crashing on a 
daily basis. I removed the html preview and no more crashes! 

Is this a proof?
--

Hope this is enough to "experience" these crashes. 
Fortunately the script changes of the crashed stacks can be recuperated 
but the rest of the work
is usually lost. 


On 13/08/2003 08:17:19 metacard-admin wrote:
>Xavier,
>
>If you could post exactly what you're doing that causes the crash, we
>could try it on our own systems. "Images and htmlText with pictures"
>doesn't quite cut it. When you say "changed a blend level on a
>background picture" do you mean a group that contains an image with its
>backgroundBehavior true?
>
>Let us know and we can help out...
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software
>Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of MisterX
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 12:27 AM
>> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Does your MC crash too?
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Im getting hyperFrustrated due to the amount of crashes I get in MC.
>>
>> For the most part, the one factor that is present in my
>> stacks that seems to cause the crashes is images and htmltext
>> with pictures.
>>
>> It's now 2 weeks Im trying to resolve these without any
>> success. And the number of crashed stacks, LOST HOURS is
>> starting to get on my nerves.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm that they have the same problems?
>>
>> Is there Anywhere or anyone who can explain how to clear
>> correctly an image?
>>
>> In this case, I just changed a blend level on a background
>> picture, save the stack and crash... Stack corrupted AGAIN!!!
>>
>> (french obscene wording like in the matrix skipped for your
>> comfort) ;)
>>
>> Who do we write for support now?
>>
>> cheers
>> Xavier
>>
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