[softwarelist] Re: Broken frame in O-Pro

In message <4ec41d6450.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just hit what appears to be a corrupt frame in an O-Pro document.
> The frame contains a bitmap, and has (or had) a polygon outline.  I
> edited it, and it displayed fine.  Then a couple of minutes later,
> O-Pro reported "Bad path element" and shrank its window down to
> nothing (which IIRC is what it does when it hits a redraw error).

> After a lot of messing around, I finally tracked the problem down to
> the one frame.  It displays OK if guidelines are off, but gives the
> above error if they are on.  The frame can not be selected with the
> mouse, so it seems that it can't be deleted (in the end I moved the
> rest of the page contents onto the pasteboard, deleted the page,
> inserted a new one, and rebuilt the layout).

Drag a frame using CtrlShiftDrag around the frame. The frame is then 
selected and you can then delete the frame with CtrlK.

Queer thing is you can send it backwards or forwards but <Menu> does 
not function. Possibly a certain following order of keypresses led to 
this problem.

> I've no idea if it will be of any use or interest to David, but I've
> put a copy of the page up on the web at

>   http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~sfryatt/temp/op-doc.zip

> I don't remember exactly what I did to cause the problem, although it
> wasn't anything out of the ordinary as far as I know, so there may not
> much be that much to learn from the file.  The frame in question is
> bottom-left on the page, and contains the G/spanner/cog logo.

> O-Pro for RISC OS, 2.77 (14 Jan 2009), on RISC OS 5.14, for what it's worth.

> (That webspace may disappear suddenly, without warning.  If it does,
> I'll stick the file up somewhere else if anyone is still interested by
> then.)

FWIW


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JohnvV
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