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Re: Canvas 2.0 almost works!
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> writes:
Tom> Hi,
Tom> Just wanted to make a quick report on E/L 199p3. I've just
Tom> tried Filemaker Pro 2.0 and it works beautifully (no more
Tom> corrupted files and I can read in my big research tracking
Tom> data base).
Yay. It turns out that Filemaker Pro is the only app in a year and a
half to have failed due to a bug in Mat's synthetic CPU. I have
actually tried to figure out the corruption file several times
previously but it was only through luck that I happened to run
Filemaker Pro with a debugging version of the synthetic CPU. When I
did, Filemaker Pro worked. It took me a while to figure out that the
difference was due to different versions of syn68k, but once I knew
that, Mat very quickly found and fixed the first syn68k bug (that I
can remember, at least) in a year and a half.
Tom> Also, Canvas 2.0 (an old version, I know) almost
Tom> works!! It fires up and and I see what appears to be a
Tom> flawless new document with tools but then it crashes executor
Tom> suddenly with the following error message...
Tom> executor: XError `8': BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Tom> X_CreateCursor
Tom> I'm going to try to install Canvas 3.5 later today and cross
Tom> my fingers...
Hmmm... I'm not sure what's causing the BadMatch error, but I suspect
that you're going to get a "m68k pc jumped to 0!" death with Canvas
3.5, since we were getting that with a demo version of 3.5.2. We
fixed that bug and a couple other Canvas related bugs, but those fixes
won't be out until 1.99p4.
Tom> Tom
Mat is still fighting with the bug that makes Executor unstable under
Windows 3.x, and we're also still trying to figure out the slowdown
when opening DOS drives under Windows '95. When we make substantial
progress on those two, we'll release 1.99p4 which has fixes that make
Executor work better with Canvas 3.5.2, HyperCard 2.3 built
stand-alone applications, Quark XPress 3.5 and more that I can't think
of.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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