Re: Problem with graphics view...?

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 1. Is there a step-by-step set of instructions somewhere
 (perhaps in the archives, ...I've looked there, but maybe
 I'm not searching for the right thing) for achieving what
 Mr. Fenda suggests? I would not mind trying this out.

 2. You are right Patricia when you say:

> As to why copying the files back into the Xy directory fixed things,
> would that not suggest that some vital file had gotten corrupted in the
> lockup? Of course, that still leaves the reason for the lockup unknown.
>
 That also crossed my mind. But what is it that gets corrupted?
 Right now I don't know, and I don't have the time to experiment.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Sun, 28 May 2006, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

> Correo Fenda wrote:
> > My "graphics view" is the Robert Holmgren's POSTGHOST frame. I have
> > assigned it to SHIFT+F8:
> > 66=JM,(,2,.,P,r,s,K,b,d,A,r,g,),p,o,s,t,g,h,o,s,t,NO
> > I get a beautiful preview (no comparison with native XyWrite graphics
> > view) and I can print the document to any Windows printer. The only
> > drawback: obviously, it's not editable. But I think it's OK for your
> > purposes.
> Manuel,
>
> That's brilliant. AND no (or much briefer) sickening seconds of black
> screen. Unfortunately, however, after trying that, CLIP refused to paste
> into Tbird. I had to close both Xy and Tbird and reopen them. But as
> I've said before, Tbird has problems with the Windows Clipboard. And
> CLIP reported "XX Bytes clipped" so I'm blaming Tbrid, regardless.
> Anyway, one would not be likely to need CLIP and Graphics view in the
> same session, so it's still a better solution.
>
> M.W. Poirier wrote:
> >> What I finally had to do in the end was delete my XY4
> >> directory, taking care not to delete my sub-directories,
> >> and reload my XY4 directory. That solved it.
>
> As to why copying the files back into the Xy directory fixed things,
> would that not suggest that some vital file had gotten corrupted in the
> lockup? Of course, that still leaves the reason for the lockup unknown.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx
>
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