Comments and questions for Ed, or anyone else who is interested.
Environment: Mac G4/867, 1.5 GB RAM, VM off Mac OS 9.2.2 Nikon LS-4000 While scanning slides, I saw a couple of unexpected application quits with error ID 2. When I opened the program for the first time, it crashed when I closed the opening splash screen. In another session it saved some scans but crashed when I switched back to VS after working in another application. In both cases, Firewire connectivity was hosed after these crashes. I had to restart my computer in order for VS to see my scanner. Another crash: I scanned a neg and VS froze my Mac after filling the preview display with a random pattern of black horizontal and vertical lines. The "Device | Batch scan" and "Device | Frame number" controls did not always appear. When I loaded a neg strip in my film strip adaptor (SA-21), I sometimes needed to force several updates of the Device tab before I see these controls. This might be related to corruption in the .ini file. If I hit the directory selecting button for "Files | Default folder" it brings up the normal dialog but there is no "Save" button. There is only a "Cancel" button and an "Open" button to burrow into folders. "Prefs | Animate crop box" enables animation of the focus marker, but not the crop rectangle. I clicked on the focus marker in the Preview display (to move it), and the marker jumped to another position on the image. It followed my mouse dragging, but relative to its shifted position, not under the cross cursor. This happened with "Prefs | Animate crop box" enabled, and "Device | Rotation = Left". The documentation has no description for "Prefs | Preview memory" and "Prefs | Scan memory." Defaults are 50MB for both, but I was able to acquire and save a >100MB scan. What is the significance of these controls? Control list in Prefs tab has finally grown long enough to bring up a scrollbar on my monitor. When the scrollbar is moved to either limit, controls are not clipped correctly. Parts of controls are drawn over the tab labels, or over the buttons at the bottom of the window. Sometimes parts of controls are not erased when the window updates after a scroll. I think I understand the function of "Prefs | Min dimension", but I still do not understand the meaning of the control's name, or the numbers that it takes. Can anyone explain this? I have "Prefs | External viewer" enabled, and "Prefs | Viewer" set to Photoshop. Scan files are written with the correct creator type and icon. But VS does not automatically cause Photoshop to open these files after a scan. This feature worked correctly for me in at least one version of VS (shortly after the feature was introduced). But I have not seen it work in any of the VS versions I have tried in recent weeks. I tried the usual remedies for file/app association problems: rebuilding Desktop files, examining the file mappings in "Internet Preferences" file (accessed through Internet control panel, or File Exchange control panel), trashing and rebuilding the "Internet Preferences" and "File Exchange Preferences" files). Are any other users of VS for Mac OS 8/9 seeing this? -- Julian Vrieslander <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
