🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello!  I've been working on a project this summer designing dialog boxes for
a piece of software.  The software I chose to do this was SuperPaint.  I own
1.0, which has always worked fine for me, but I was able to borrow 2.0 from
a friend for the purposes of this project.  I was favorably impressed, at
first, with the new features, like the n-gon and the ability to stretch
text, etc.  The speed could have been better, though...

Anyway, I started work on the dialogs, and much to my dismay, as they became
more complicated (in the object layer), the software would crash while saving.
This not only wiped out the changes since the last save, but it KILLED MY
SAVED FILE, too.  Needless to say, I was a bit peeved.  This happened on both
a MacPlus (2.5MB RAM, trillions of inits, MF 6.1b7, 128k Ram Cache, Sys 6.0.2),
the same Plus under just Finder with no cache, and on a Mac II with tons of
memory and almost no inits (basically, Pyro).

Question:  What's going on?  This seems like a pretty big bug to me!  These
drawings were complicated, but they certainly weren't unreasonable.  I mean,
we're not talking about 500 objects, here!  To further complicate matters,
SuperPaint 2.0 won't save in any format even remotely compatible with other
software!  1.0/1.1 won't open it properly ("This document is too large to be
a SuperPaint document. Scaling to fit", then scales all objects down in size).
Draw opens the 2.0 format (they call it PICT), but loses all of the grouping,
text formatting, etc.  (all of which was very necessary).  

I was able to get the work done by doing _one_ dialog/page, thereby keeping the
object count down (and I also saved dual copies of each file, so that when the
limit was reached, I had another).

Comments?  I was going to send in my upgrade $$ for 2.0, but I don't plan to
do so now, unless this has all been fixed...

--Mike

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