[softwarelist] Re: CrossStar problem.
- From: Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:49:45 GMT
On 28 Nov 2011 David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> In message <cf2c4d3952.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dr Peter Young
> <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>> I suppose I would try removing all my dictionaries and replacing them
>>That sounds like a lot of hard work!
> Hmm. Well this is only temporary to see where the fault is.
> Problem is that things can be set up in different ways. Dictionaries can
> be stored inside the applications, in a !Words folder or a !UserWords
> folder. You might have more than one !Words in which case it is not
> certain which one is the active one.
Ah, yes, I found this out years ago. My dictionaries are only in
!Words, in Boot.!Resources, so that all the apps can share them.
> But in the simple case of you having just !Words, getting rid of the old
> dictionaries is as simple as renaming !Words to !OldWords.
> Then copy a new !Words from e.g. your Ovation Pro CD, and then double
> click it to make it current.
A problem there, I'm afraid! Something has happened to my OPro CD over
the years, and it's now unreadable. What I'll try is to restore an old
!MainDict from the Iyo backup well over a month ago, and see if that
makes a difference. However, I have my doubts as to whether the
problem is with the dictionaries, as they all work perfectly well with
OPro and Messenger Pro; it's only CrossStar that crashes.
> I imagine someone clever saying "just copy a new !Words somewhere other
> than the existing one and then double click it".
> Plan B, CrossStar has a Words->Load menu, which will let you control
> which dictionaries are loaded - that will also let you see if a
> particular dictionary is causing the trouble (have each one loaded in
> turn and see if the crash happens).
Yes, I had already tried that, and the crash happens no matter which
dictionary is loaded.
> If you locate a problem dictionary then you have to recreate it, doesn't
> take long, menu over the word list, save, create dictionary, dump the
> file you just saved in to the word list.
> The above is simple and you should not lose anything. But leave it until
> you have time.
> I would be interested if anyone else has this problem on ARMv7, ARMini
> etc.
So would I! If it's just me, please don't spend too much time on it,
as I can always run CrossStar on VRPC, where it behaves. The effort of
having to start Windows might even deter me from cheating with the
crossword :-)
I'm still in the middle of a busy period, so I may not be able to do
more testing till Thursday at the earliest. In the meanwhile, I've
tried the old dictionary from the Iyo backup, and the new CrossStar
crashes, but only with the Solve option, Anagram works fine. Is this a
pointer, perhaps?
One final thought: in connection with a problem with another app, I've
been advised to install UnplugTBox and run the other set of toolbox
modules; this has solved the problem with the other app, but could
this have upset CrossStar? The whole of this toolbox business is way
over my head, but it's perhaps worth mentioning that the VRPC also
runs UnplugTBox, and this doesn't upset CrossStar there.
Many thanks again,
With best wishes,
Peter.
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