Very Computer

I've installed the Practice Viewer upgrade for JPEG support in Warp's
Light Table folders which has worked OK for a few folders with a few
images - a much-needed improvement :)

However last night I was happily creating thumbnails for a couple of
directories containing an assortment of GIF, PNG & JPG files (PNG
support would be nice!) and then wondered what would happen if I
interrupted the process (one folder had >50 images, the other ~20) so I
closed the LT folders & then re-opened them once CPU activity had
dropped back to ~zero. This consistently crashed the WPS very quickly
(SYS3172 IIRC, whatever that means - my OS/2 machine is at home), which
then reloaded itself successfully. This repeated when opening either
folder one-at-a-time, some time after the folder had become repopulated
with thumbnails - previously-created thns were visible OK. Eventually I
got fed-up and deleted the LT's... :(

Ne1 else experienced this? Is it just PVU? It's putting me off
registering...  (tho' now BMT has a secure server It'll be easier)

(My system: Warp 3.0 + FP22, 24MB RAM, DX2-66, ET4000 W32p 2MB DRAM,
 1024x768x65k desktop)

Cheers,
        James.

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Quote:(James Price) writes:

I had similar problems with the Light Tables. They are EXTREMELY
flakey/buggy in WARP v4.0.

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James R. Himmelman

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I've found GIF's (about 50% of them) crash my light folders (and system)
I switched to Warp v4 last weekend and haven't tried the lightfolders
yet under v4 yet but I don't have to much hope.  I belive I heard that
v4 does jpeg's also but I'm not sure.

(James Price)14 Nov 1996 12:06:36 GMT writes:
:>
:>I've installed the Practice Viewer upgrade for JPEG support in Warp's
:>Light Table folders which has worked OK for a few folders with a few
:>images - a much-needed improvement :)
:>
:>However last night I was happily creating thumbnails for a couple of
:>directories containing an assortment of GIF, PNG & JPG files (PNG
:>support would be nice!) and then wondered what would happen if I
:>interrupted the process (one folder had >50 images, the other ~20) so I
:>closed the LT folders & then re-opened them once CPU activity had
:>dropped back to ~zero. This consistently crashed the WPS very quickly
:>(SYS3172 IIRC, whatever that means - my OS/2 machine is at home), which
:>then reloaded itself successfully. This repeated when opening either
:>folder one-at-a-time, some time after the folder had become repopulated
:>with thumbnails - previously-created thns were visible OK. Eventually I
:>got fed-up and deleted the LT's... :(
:>
:>Ne1 else experienced this? Is it just PVU? It's putting me off
:>registering...  (tho' now BMT has a secure server It'll be easier)
:>
:>(My system: Warp 3.0 + FP22, 24MB RAM, DX2-66, ET4000 W32p 2MB DRAM,
:> 1024x768x65k desktop)
:>
:>Cheers,
:>        James.
:>
:>--

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:>Life, don't talk to me about life...     Marvin

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>I've found GIF's (about 50% of them) crash my light folders (and system)
>I switched to Warp v4 last weekend and haven't tried the lightfolders
>yet under v4 yet but I don't have to much hope.  I belive I heard that
>v4 does jpeg's also but I'm not sure.

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//** Lawrence Henderson

: >>I've found GIF's (about 50% of them) crash my light folders (and system)
: >>I switched to Warp v4 last weekend and haven't tried the lightfolders
: >>yet under v4 yet but I don't have to much hope.  I belive I heard that
: >>v4 does jpeg's also but I'm not sure.

: >I had this problem previous, but I haven't had this problem with Warp V4.

: Same experience with WARP3.0. No problems under WARP4.0 FWIW.
: //** Lawrence Henderson

Oh great ... so it's fixed in Warp 4 but it's _not_ fixed in any of the
FixPacks upto 22 (!) for Warp 3 & I can't afford to upgrade & my colleagues
are NOT impressed with this instability :(

(though it does show the WPS recovering well <grin>)

To whom should I report this? The UK support is a tad unresponsive...

Cheers,
          James

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Price)20 Nov 1996 10:25:32 GMT writes:
:>

:>: >>I've found GIF's (about 50% of them) crash my light folders (and system)
:>: >>I switched to Warp v4 last weekend and haven't tried the lightfolders
:>: >>yet under v4 yet but I don't have to much hope.  I belive I heard that
:>: >>v4 does jpeg's also but I'm not sure.
:>
:>Oh great ... so it's fixed in Warp 4 but it's _not_ fixed in any of the
:>FixPacks upto 22 (!) for Warp 3 & I can't afford to upgrade & my colleagues
:>are NOT impressed with this instability :(

I can tell you that the light table in Warp 4 is still very delicate and
a JPEG with an error in it that will still view in another viewer will hang
all light tables and the associated IBM viewer.

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