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In article <BtEIqq.AIq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Since I've gottten so much mail on this topic, I thought I'd demo a
>recent problem with Frame.  Here's something that I bumped into
>recently that crashes Frame 3.0 on a NeXT 2.1 machine:
>
>Go to the References page (this probably works anywhere though) and
>turn on snap-to-grid w/ 1/8".  Lay out a frame that is about 3" wide
>and 2" high.  Inside the frame, place a line segment of any width.
>Place the line segment at the top of the frame after drawing the line
>segment. Shrink the frame to use up the most minimal space to hold the
>line segment.  If you shrank the bottom or top to make the frame
>(essentially) 0" high, then Frame will quit instantly giving you no
>chance to save your work whatsoever. It will die because of something
>like "locked focus on wrong view" error (it'll be logged in the
>Console log). Really incredibly helpful when I used Frame and hadn't
>saved in the past 4 minutes and lost all the work.  Now I've got the
>auto-save set to one minute.

Yup, that did it.  However, I can hardly imagine that this makes 
Framemaker crash and/or log you out "all the time" and renders Framemaker
"unusable".

>
>I didn't think that Frame would die when I originally did this, and I
>didn't even do it to "test" Frame, I just thought that since it knew
>how high the line segment is (I made mine 3 points high), that it
>would make the inside of the frame 3 points high as well.  Alas, it
>dies and never saves the work anywhere before it does so.
>
>The other problems that I have had with Frame have been random, hence
>I cannot come up with repeatable demos of them, but I have been able
>to demo this problem on request.  At first, I thought that my problems
>were RAM problems, but all other apps (and the OS as well) work as
>expected, so it has to be a Frame problem.
>-- 
>-- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
>-- No NeXTmail please


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