Re: Dia freeze up

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

I never did find a temp file.  I may be looking in the wrong place.  Hints?

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Hans,
>
> I may have spoken too soon about re install fixing it, but it is easy
> so I will try again.
>
> Also the anti-alias - do you mean the setting in View Defaults?  I
> have that unchecked.
>
> I don't understand "antialiased (cairo) rendering" if that is different.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:
> > At 09.09.2012 16:32, Michael Ross wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > This happens often, and I don't know how to trouble shoot it to provide
> > > better information.
> > Checking changes in your usage pattern could be a starting point (or maybe
> > you are seeing more freezes with Dia 0.97.2 than with Dia 0.97.1?)
> >
> > > Running 0.97.2 on Win7
> > There was a big dependency update with the last minor update of Dia with the
> > dia-installer. So you might trigger some bug comming with that update.
> >
> >
> > > Just now I was placing an arc between to circle centers.  The 3rd pick is
> > > to change the diameter, when tried to do this it got stuck and I have the
> > > busy cursor.   I will have to kill the program to get it free, start
> > > again,
> > > and loose my work.
> > I recently had a freeze in cairo related to arcs with invalid parameters.
> > Are you using the antialiased (cairo) rendering? If so the probabilty of
> > freezes might be reduced by switching to the non-antialiased.
> >
> >
> > > This happens nearly every time I use Dia.   I have not kept good track of
> > > what I am doing when this happens.  It may only be the arc, but it may be
> > > other functions as well.
> > Maybe the log-file %TEMP%\dia--0.97.2.log contains more information.
> >
> >
> > > Any ideas about how to stop it without killing Dia?  Any ideas on how to
> > > tell what causes the problem?
> > Not that I thought it would help, but last time reinstallation seems to have
> > solved your problem (-:
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2012-June/msg00087.html
> >
> > -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org -----------
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