[softwarelist] Re: Broken frame in O-Pro

On 31 May, Jhr JMAH van Vredenburch  wrote in message
  <bcb1236450.janvred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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.

Thanks -- I couldn't find the marquee drag option.  In fact, with the frame
then selected by this route, changing it back to rectangular and then to
polygon again seems to reset things.

I wish I'd known about that last night...

> 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 seen it before, so there's obviously something that I sometimes do that
triggers the problem.  I use polygon frames a fair bit, however, so it's
clearly not /that/ common a bug.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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