Re: [StrongED] Testing StrongHelp 2.90b1 (Urgent)

[David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Graute, on 20 Mar, wrote:

> In message <09fcaa1f56.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 19 Mar 2017  Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > I've just reported trying the same steps with PrintPDF 1.11, and I
> > > can't reproduce the crash. Apologies both to Fred and to Steve, but
> > > why this should have happened I have no idea. I will go on using
> > > StrongHelp 2.091b and will report any other weirdnesses, if they
> > > happen, which I imagine they won't.
> > 
> > My brain hurts. Before I shut the computer down last night StrongHelp
> > crashed again, and it has done again this morning. This time, the Help
> > files of StrongED, StrongHelp and NeXTBar were fine, then the crash
> > occurred trying to access Transient's help. This means that PrintPDF
> > doesn't contribute to the crash after all.
> 
> It seems to be the NeXTBar manual that's causing this. I've downloaded a
> fresh copy (v1.30) and ran it. This opens a window stating that it's an
> unregistered copy. Click on 'Instructions' (in blue) in that window and
> StrongHelp crashes.
> 
> The Sprites file inside the NeXTBar manual seems to be corrupted, Paint
> complained about 'Bad mode'. Replaced it with a valid sprite file and a
> click on 'Instructions' opened the manual without an error.
> 
> Strangely, double-clicking the manual opens it perfectly fine, even with
> dodgy sprites file.

I have now seen the crash after looking at the NeXTBar 1.30 StrongHelp.

It is a bit weird, it does not immediately crash !StrongHelp, that happens
later on some other entirely innocent file.

Paint gives a "Bad MODE" error but !StrongHlp can render it as can !Draw. A
"corrected" version of the file can be extracted from !Draw after which
there are no more crashes (yet?).



-- 
David Pitt

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