greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (08/15/89)
I have a fairly sophisticated NIB file that I can't open
any more (system 0.9).
I have been developing a program over quite some time, and
using Interface Builder heavily. Yesterday I couldn't open
the interface file; in fact, Interface Builder crashes
consistently when trying to open the file.
CLUES:
1. The last time I saved the file, I was quitting out of IB
and it mentioned that the file had been modified and asked
me if I wanted to save it; I said "yes". I have never
saved it that way in the past, I don't think.
2. The interface contained in the file is OK, as I can build
the application with "make" and it runs just fine.
3. The '~' backup file is identical and also unopenable.
4. Strangely enough, I can succesfully open the file if I
open another interface file first, THEN try to open it, but
not always or reliably.
5. I had just finished hand-constructing a bunch of icons
with "Icon" and pasting them onto buttons in the program.
6. I constructed and deleted a few objects during the last
session with IB, notably some boxes and text objects, while
experimenting with the visual design.
7. I used "bring to front" and "send to back" for the first
time during that session.
I can't think of anything else. I don't know how to salvage
this interface and welcome any or all suggestions.
Thanks,
Glenn Reid
{decwrl,sun,next}!adobe!heaven!glenngreid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid) (08/16/89)
I have another bit of mysterious information about Interface Builder not being able to open my interface file. I had the bright idea to run it under "gdb", and although there appears to be no symbol table, it does give an interesting error message. Here is the session. When I "run" the program and open the interface file, it crashes as follows: heaven> gdb /NextApps/InterfaceBuilder GDB 9i0.83, Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for GDB; type "info warranty" for details. GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "info copying" to see the conditions. Reading symbol data from /NextApps/InterfaceBuilder...reading Objective-C data...done. Type "help" for a list of commands. (gdb) run Starting program: /NextApps/InterfaceBuilder Objective C error occurred in object at 0xe3ba0 of class FREED(id) message name sent to freed object=e3ba0 === stack backtrace (in reverse chronological order) === === [receiver selector args] @sentFrom[ClassName methodName] === Program received signal 6, IOT trap 0x502ba84 in kill () I am stymied by this one. It looks like some object is being freed before its time, resulting in the error. Anybody have any suggestions? Glenn
David.Hall@f222.n106.z1.fidonet.org (David Hall) (10/14/89)
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e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) (08/31/90)
Something I did (I don't know what :-( has me in a real bind. It's something to do with fonts in Display Postscript. Here are the symptoms: Terminal when launched as a background process from another Terminal window, starts up OK, except the menu box is blank, apart from the Header bar. At the same time an error message is echoed on the parent window. The message reads: DPS client library error:PostScript program error, DPSContext 1218c %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%% These two lines get repeated seven or eight times. Digital Librarian starts up when launched from the workspace manager, but there is no text anywhere, except in the header bars of the menu and the main window. Text typed into the request window shows up, but nothing appears below after a search. The internal icons are present, but not their labels. WriteNow briefly opens a window and then dies immediately. I have not tried other applications, but it seems likely that they to will have problems. What did I do, and how do I fix it? Colin Allen e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University (409) 845-3606 College Station, TX 77843-4237
e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) (08/31/90)
Of course, one more thing to follow up my previous posting for help... I can't rtfm (for the NeXT documentation) 'cuz WriteNow won't work. Colin Allen e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu Department of Philosophy Texas A&M University (409) 845-3606 College Station, TX 77843-4237
wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Shipley) (08/31/90)
Colin Allen writes: >Something I did (I don't know what :-( has me in a real bind. It's >something to do with fonts in Display Postscript. Here are the symptoms: > > DPS client library error:PostScript program error, DPSContext 1218c > %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%% I'd do a "dread -l", and look for some global setting of a font that is invalid. If you see it, use "dremove" to nuke it. -wil shipley
adonis1@nwnexus.WA.COM (Adonis Corporation ) (09/04/90)
In article <7845@helios.TAMU.EDU> e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) writes: > DPS client library error:PostScript program error, DPSContext 1218c > %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: --nostringval-- ]%% >These two lines get repeated seven or eight times. > > >WriteNow briefly opens a window and then dies immediately. I have experienced the same problems. My best observation to date indicates that the problem only occurs when my memory configuration exceeds 8M. I have had no problem with either my original NeXT memory or my new 1M SIMMs as long as I stay at 8M. I share your interest in any solutions to this problem. -Doug
neuliep@speedy.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Neuliep) (10/16/90)
Could anyone tell me where I can buy an optical disk? Does anyone have an old one they could sell me? Please respond via e-mail because I dont read this newsgroup often. Thanx -Mike Neuliep neuliep@speedy.cs.uiuc.edu
geoff@circus.camex.com (Geoffrey Knauth) (05/28/91)
My experience with the following files: citall.mf cmcbx10.mf cmcbxsl1.mf cmcbxti1.mf cmcitt10.mf cmcsl10.mf cmcss10.mf cmcssdc1.mf cmcti10.mf cmcyr10.mf cyrcoding.mf cyrillic.mf cyrl.mf cyru.mf cytextit.mf has been very painful. Metafont immediately gives me error messages about isolated expressions when I run it on the steering file cyrillic.mf, and TeX won't let me proceed without ".tfm" files. TeXView compains about a "design size mismatch" when it tries to run MakeTeXPK, and I get miniscule dots for characters. After eights hours of getting nowhere, I feel as far from "plug and play" as can be. If anyone was ever able to use this stuff on a NeXT machine, how did you do it? Thanks for any help. Geoffrey S. Knauth E-Mail: geoff@bos.camex.com Camex / DuPont Imaging Systems Inc. VoiceMail: (617) 426-7550 x451 75 Kneeland Street Reception: (617) 426-3577 Boston, Massachusetts 02111 --standard disclaimers--