Re: [icon-users] TW hang when inserting cross-refs

  • From: Bruce Harvey <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 10:17:54 +0100

Do you know anyone with the Mac version of VA? Perhaps you could do the same 
test on that to see if its a PC windows problem.

Have you asked Aaron about the problem?


Regards  Bruce

Bruce Harvey
bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Alternative Physics Site
http://bearsoft.co.uk 






On 12 May 2012, at 19:04, gwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have an occasional problem with some operation in TechWriter completely
> stiffing the system.  I'm running TW Pro V9.00 under Virtual RISC PC.
> The latest such incident caused my CMOS RAM to get trashed.  It took some
> time to figure out how to reset my settings, so I'd like to not have this
> occur again.
> 
> Last night I was entering some cross-references into a 10MB TW document.
> There are over 500 bookmarks in this document.  As I added in new links to
> each cross-reference, there was a momentary hour-glass before the new
> link was inserted into the document.  I created a new bookmark, went into
> the test and inserted the cross-reference to that bookmark.  The system
> hung.  I do not recall if the hang occurred before or after the hour-glass
> appeared.
> 
> I also had this behavior when inserting a regular bookmark in the previous
> version of TW.
> 
> Have others had this problem?  Is this a problem of TW?  Of RISC OS?  Or
> of the underlying Windows system?
> 
> Gareth
> 
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