How to make Xara X crash

[Egg Bramhill]

Windows XP Home. Couldn't get it to crash. Sounds like it could be a graphics card problem.
Egg

[Bob Hahn]

I'm using Windows 2000.

For those who try this experiment, you don't need to be all that precise like I wrote in my original message.

You just need 2 feathered shapes and a rectangle. Select the feathered shapes and rectangle, apply ClipView. When you start to zoom in, Xara will disappear.

-Bob.

[masque]

Win XP pro, Nvidia graphics card, 2ghz athlon, 1gb DDR ram and no vanishing xara.

derek

ps. don't remember using clip view as much as this before though.

[gdavidson]

A 4 year old PIII 450MHz, 256Mb Ram, TNT2 with XP PRO, Xara disappears.

PIII 550MHz, W98SE, 320Mb RAM, ATI card - Xara didn't disappear the same way but I got a Kernel32 error before it quit.
(XARAX caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0167:bff7a138.)

P200, 64MB RAM, 98SE, Cirrus card same as above Kernel32 error then quit.

I can't get it to behave on any machine I try it on!

The key thing about provoking the crash is to pick the magnifier tool and single-click (not drag click) on the overlapping area each time.

Strange that not everyone seems to get the problem.

--
Graeme

[Egg Bramhill]

I can get it to crash as well now. I never use the magnifier tool in that way but drag-select an area, but if I click on the area it crashes with no warning message.
Egg

[dalel]

Still no crash up until %8000, then I tried using the slider to look at another part of the zoomed image, and it crashed (the old "illegal operation" crash).

http://talkgraphics.infopop.net/1/Op...&ul=1101906325
Why, I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir, because I’m not myself, you know...
- Lewis Carroll

[gdavidson]

Hehe - sometimes the slightest detail makes all the difference http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

I'll need to get into the habit of drag-zooming. I wonder just how many crashes could be put down to single click zooming in other situations!

Hmmm...

--
Graeme

[raffon]

P4 2gig 512 RDRAM Intel MV850 motherboard
Matrox 400 dual head.
W2K SP1

Can't get it to crash in any of the above mentioned ways.

+++"Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won."+++

The Duke of Wellington

[mikeengles]

Hello

Yes, I have the same. WinXP pro Matrox G550.
Pentium2.53, 1Gb of ram.

Mike Engles

[michaelward]

I have an Athlon XP 2200+, Nvidia Geforce4 MX, 1 GB RAM, running XP pro.

Can't crash it with any of the above methods.



Michael Ward
http://www.leythers.co.uk
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