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 <h...@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 ----------- > Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to > get along without it. -- Dilbert > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? Dalai Lama To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Warren Buffet Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
