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But lately, every time I try to open any Light Table object, the disk
goes nuts, the system slows to a crawl (preventing me from doing anything
else), and after a few minutes, the WPS goes down in flames.  Of course,
background tasks continue to run and when the WPS comes back up,
everything is fine (although all my open folders are closed and the Light
Table is closed).

Is this a known Light Table bug?  Is there a fix?  Is it video driver
related?  (I have Cirrus 543x PCI video with the latest drivers from the
Cirrus BBS).

Larry

Quote:>I love the Multimedia Light Table folders included with Warp.  But I seem
>to have a problem with mine.  They worked for a while, mostly, but would

>Is this a known Light Table bug?  Is there a fix?  Is it video driver
>related?  (I have Cirrus 543x PCI video with the latest drivers from the
>Cirrus BBS).

>Larry

                                                        r.l.dempsey

Quote:>I love the Multimedia Light Table folders included with Warp.  But I seem
>to have a problem with mine.  They worked for a while, mostly, but would
>occasionally cause the WPS to crash.  When I opened it, the disk would
>thrash incessantly until the WPS went down and reloaded.  I surmised that
>this might have been due to the a bug in the Light Table code that causes
>a crash when creating a thimbnail for a corupt image.

>But lately, every time I try to open any Light Table object, the disk
>goes nuts, the system slows to a crawl (preventing me from doing anything
>else), and after a few minutes, the WPS goes down in flames.  Of course,
>background tasks continue to run and when the WPS comes back up,
>everything is fine (although all my open folders are closed and the Light
>Table is closed).

Can anyone repeat?

Robert
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Quote:>I love the Multimedia Light Table folders included with Warp.  But I seem
>to have a problem with mine.  They worked for a while, mostly, but would
>occasionally cause the WPS to crash.  When I opened it, the disk would
>thrash incessantly until the WPS went down and reloaded.  I surmised that
>this might have been due to the a bug in the Light Table code that causes
>a crash when creating a thimbnail for a corupt image.

>But lately, every time I try to open any Light Table object, the disk
>goes nuts, the system slows to a crawl (preventing me from doing anything
>else), and after a few minutes, the WPS goes down in flames.  Of course,
>background tasks continue to run and when the WPS comes back up,
>everything is fine (although all my open folders are closed and the Light
>Table is closed).

>Is this a known Light Table bug?  Is there a fix?  Is it video driver
>related?  (I have Cirrus 543x PCI video with the latest drivers from the
>Cirrus BBS).

>Larry

This problem has come up for discussion before.  I believe it is a Light Table
bug.  Certain gifs will cause the light table to grind away until it uses up
all your swap space.  My experience has been that this is more of a problem
with grey scale gifs though it did happen to me once with a color gif. Perhaps
too many occurences of a single value sends the light table into an infinite
loop.

Unfortunately I do not know of any fix for this.

Eric

RH> >I love the Multimedia Light Table folders included with Warp.  But
RH> I seem >to have a problem with mine.  They worked for a while,
RH> mostly, but would >occasionally cause the WPS to crash.  When I
RH> opened it, the disk would >thrash incessantly until the WPS went
RH> down and reloaded.  I surmised that >this might have been due to the
RH> a bug in the Light Table code that causes >a crash when creating a
RH> thimbnail for a corupt image. > >But lately, every time I try to
RH> open any Light Table object, the disk >goes nuts, the system slows
RH> to a crawl (preventing me from doing anything >else), and after a
RH> few minutes, the WPS goes down in flames.  Of course, >background
RH> tasks continue to run and when the WPS comes back up, >everything is
RH> fine (although all my open folders are closed and the Light >Table
RH> is closed).

RH> I experienced a bug.  I noticed that if the Light Table folder or
RH> any folder above it has a space in the name (the default name of a
RH> Light Table folder is "Light Table") then double clicking on the
RH> frame to view the picture doesn't work.  I get the disk activity and
RH> system slowdown but no picture display.  Haven't noticed any WPS
RH> crashes though.

RH> Can anyone repeat?

I have found that if I drag too many object to a Light Table folder the
WPS falls over and cannot recover. If I let the light table create less
than ten object at a time then it works fine. This appears to be a bug
in the WPS. I say this because I have a FTP application that use the WPS
and folders to pull the info off a FTP server. The author of the app
suggests that if the site has a large number of objects you must
minimise the target folder or reduce the number of objects you are
attempting to create. Apparently the WPS was not supposed to create
large numbers of objects on the DESKTOP in fast succession.

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RH> >I love the Multimedia Light Table folders included with Warp.  But
RH> I seem >to have a problem with mine.  They worked for a while,
RH> mostly, but would >occasionally cause the WPS to crash.  When I
RH> opened it, the disk would >thrash incessantly until the WPS went
RH> down and reloaded.  I surmised that >this might have been due to the
RH> a bug in the Light Table code that causes >a crash when creating a
RH> thimbnail for a corupt image. > >But lately, every time I try to
RH> open any Light Table object, the disk >goes nuts, the system slows
RH> to a crawl (preventing me from doing anything >else), and after a
RH> few minutes, the WPS goes down in flames.  Of course, >background
RH> tasks continue to run and when the WPS comes back up, >everything is
RH> fine (although all my open folders are closed and the Light >Table
RH> is closed).

RH> I experienced a bug.  I noticed that if the Light Table folder or
RH> any folder above it has a space in the name (the default name of a
RH> Light Table folder is "Light Table") then double clicking on the
RH> frame to view the picture doesn't work.  I get the disk activity and
RH> system slowdown but no picture display.  Haven't noticed any WPS
RH> crashes though.

RH> Can anyone repeat?

I have found that if I drag too many object to a Light Table folder the
WPS falls over and cannot recover. If I let the light table create less
than ten object at a time then it works fine. This appears to be a bug
in the WPS. I say this because I have a FTP application that use the WPS
and folders to pull the info off a FTP server. The author of the app
suggests that if the site has a large number of objects you must
minimise the target folder or reduce the number of objects you are
attempting to create. Apparently the WPS was not supposed to create
large numbers of objects on the DESKTOP in fast succession.

**********************************************************
* Marc Mitsialis-Souster  (CNA)                          *

*                                                        *
* WARPED to you from IBM OS/2 Warp via *space        *
*                                                        *
*          All comments are my personal opinions         *
*              unless otherwise noted.                   *
**********************************************************

 * RM 1.3  * Eval Day 184 * Resistence is useless!!(if less than 1 ohm).

The danger with using only one light table folder is that if you get a
reference created in that folder there is usually no way to clear up the
problem with out deleting the entire folder.