[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Don't trash those prefs

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From: Robin <robinc@...>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:19:32 +1000
> 
>> This also works for a problem I encountered in which when I did a "Run"
>> (while converting a project), instead of running for a while then showing
>> the error list, it just sat there forever with the little cursor spinning
>> away happily but not getting anywhere. After trashing the "STAZ" folder (and
>> then accepting the new prefs on re-loading the project) it worked fine
>> again. (Making a new project and adding all my files to it did not work, as
>> from what else I read it shouldn't).
> 
> 
> The problem was probably not in the prefs file. It was the pref
> setting. By throwing away the file, you forced the editor to rebuild
> it with a default set. The default set allowed the compile to
> complete.
> 

Hmmm. But all I'd changed was appearance settings (font, color, boldness)...
???

In case it gives a clue, the problem seemed to build up when I was swapping
between projects. That is, I was translating a test project and occasionally
needed to check some simple things, so I Loaded the "pi" file of a small
test project (after closing the project window of the main project), then
went back to the main project, and so on. I started getting the spinning
wheel of death, but could fix it by quitting and restarting. But eventually
even that wouldn't work, nor would making a new project and bringing all the
files back in. But trashing the prefs did the trick.

BTW, perhaps I simply haven't read the manual closely enough, but there is
no obvious way to swap between projects the way you could in FBII: you can
open a new one's pi file but the existing project seems to stay in memory
(at least, the Windows menu still holds all the files you had open).
-- 
Robin
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