Bugs item #1841000, was opened at 2007-11-29 15:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by dooglus You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757416&aid=1841000&group_id=144022
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Crasher/nasty bug Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Duplicate Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: WinXP: Can't start synfig anymore Initial Comment: AMD Athlon, WinXP Prof., binary files, Hello. Well, before a long time I experimented with synfig and started working and was very satisfied with the fast and easy handling of the program. When I started experimenting with the animation feature once the program crashed. Up to that time (I think this happened more than a year ago) I was unable to start synfig anymore. I tried to delete and reinstall anything (GTK, Core, Studio). Anytime a new release would come up I tried to install the new releases and also I tried installing third party releases and so on... It worked never again. Long time past since the crash happened (at least one or two versions before 0.61.07) and so I am not able to explain detailed how I did it but I can say how synfig behaves since then. When I start the studio the console and the studio loading screen pop up. The loading screen shows the loading bar as expected and many different things get loaded (as usual). When the loading finished and the tool window and the sheet window should come up... nothing... In the task bar I have two tasks then, both called "Synfig Studio". The first one is the console (which is blank) and the second one gives absolutly nothing on clicking to it. When I shut down the latter task the console gives several shut down information and finally both tasks are gone. When I double click onto one of the example files (e.g. candy.sifz) I everytime get a canvas browser, layers browser and the sheet window where the image should be drawn. The sheet is blank everytime I try this but in the layers browser you can see all the different layers. Maybe this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: dooglus (dooglus) Date: 2007-11-30 05:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1546005 Originator: NO This is a duplicate of 1836848. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: dooglus (dooglus) Date: 2007-11-30 05:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1546005 Originator: NO Looking at the 'settings' file in your attached zip file, I see lines like these: dock.dialog.60434976.pos=-40000 -53331 dock.dialog.61503857.pos=-40000 -53331 window.toolbox.pos=-32000 -32000 These are setting the position of the windows to be several feet off the screen, so you don't get to see them. I committed a fix (svn r1167) that sets the position to (0,0) when the config file calls for negative values, but didn't yet find out why the file is getting corrupted in the first place. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: dooglus (dooglus) Date: 2007-11-30 05:08 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1546005 Originator: NO File Added: Synfig.old.zip ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: dooglus (dooglus) Date: 2007-11-30 04:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1546005 Originator: NO there's a box to 'upload and attach file' right in this bug report page, at the bottom. But it's OK, I see it on the patch tracker now. I'll copy it here. If you're interested, there are usually a few of us chatting on IRC, in the #synfig channel of freenode. See http://www.synfig.com/2005/12/29/synfig-irc-freenode-net/ for details. Discovering and fixing synfig features and bugs together. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2007-11-30 00:05 Message: Logged In: NO Oh, and thanks alot :)! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2007-11-30 00:04 Message: Logged In: NO I wished I had reported here several month ago ;). Worked perfectly. Since I am not able to attach a file (the zip of synfig.old) in comments I will add it to the patch area. Sorry for that but I don't know any better solution to let you get the file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: dooglus (dooglus) Date: 2007-11-29 15:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1546005 Originator: NO Do you have a folder: C:/Documents and Settings/<your name>/Synfig/ If so, try renaming it to "Synfig.old" or something before running synfig. Does that help? If it does, please zip up a copy of the Synfig.old folder and upload it here so I can take a look and see what in it is causing the problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757416&aid=1841000&group_id=144022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
