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Hi:

This one is quite strange, I just cant find a hook with which to figure out whats up..

Can you email support@gearotic.com so I can send you a special version to test. Ill make one that
initializes in stages to see if we can figure out whats hanging you up..

Thx
Art

Installed 3.01100, no change. Autotrain still hangs.

Besides it hardly snows in Rock anyway, not like the 200+ inches we get up here, although they get the colder end of the temperature/lake effect snow tradeoff.  My smaller snowblower is 6 1/2 feet wide...

I moved up here to go to Michigan Tech, back around the time that vacuum tubes were the hot thing...

Kirk

Heh, the snow's not that bad and we know how to handle it so it rarely impacts life up here. If you love forests and raw nature with sparse population the UP is as close to perfect as you can get.

between MooseLake, living just south of Houghton Michigan and Dfuess in Rock Michigan
id have to think you guys are hiding out, LOL
I have spent a few weeks at what we called "Camp Rock", a river cabin right on the Escanaba River and then also at Michigan Tech University several times.
Very nice country but damn you guys get the snow.
Good to see fellow Michiganders.
;D

Hi Dfeuss:

  I see a strange refocus to the search button on init, so Ive removed it and tested. I , of course, see no change,
but this DOES look like some graphic issue, and I have seen it happen before in terms of seeing certain labels refuse
to refresh on some system reports. Gearotic uses an architecture that was kinda crossover at the time. The ribbon
bars are created by me manually for example, and not in a bar designer as one would do it now in the newer compilers. This can cause a message loop of some sort.. though hard to say where or how at this point. I have few reports of issues, yours seems the worst, while a couple others do have the missing labels at times. ( And even I have seen that happen, though when I look for it, its gone. On my systems at least, this bug is ephemeral.  I hate that.. so...

  Since I hope to do a release within a week to 2 week time frame, ( I have one more tool to add and a few smaller
bugs to trace before I do so.. ), I will take some time and refresh the calculators code to see if I can tighten up
anything I see that's a bit nonstandard. The Calculator is actually pretty simple GUI wise, I'm not seeing any of the
stranger controls I do use , like the numerical sliders and such. 

  As your not getting an actual error, Im assuming at this point its a control focus issue, where a control starts
a wait-on-event sequence and it never happens. (These can be a bugger to find if I cant repeat them, so cleaning is
often the only way to find them.).

  If, on the next release, the calculator still fails to run, contact me again, and I will make a special version
for your machine with debug messages that may help us track it down and kill it once and for all.

Thx
Art

I can't say that I've used every dialog but I have designed a number of trains using all gear types and most of the escapements and this is the only glitch I've encountered so far. Is there perhaps some control that's unique to this dialog or perhaps a memory overrun from the dropdown control (it does have quite a long list of perhaps dynamically loaded elements)? It could also be a library update if my library versions are different. Have noticed a couple of things though, I'll post screenshots as I encounter them again: http://www.fuess.net/images/Screenshots/Screenshot2.png

dfuess:

  Ive looked into the code, nothing is actually done until one hits the search button. Selections and such shouldn't lock up,
they don't actually do anything until later. 
I'm thinking it may be some graphics issue. I cant yet find anywhere that's suspicious. Is it the only module that seems
to lock you up?

Art

I have restarted the program and answered both yes and to the reset question. No difference in the hang behavior either way. The Windows log shows:

The program Gearotic.exe version 3.0.0.1 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
Process ID: bb8
Start Time: 01d227dbb402ef17
Termination Time: 21
Application Path: C:\Gearotic Motion\Gearotic.exe
Report Id: 249e04fd-93cf-11e6-a2c9-985fd34914a8
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

There was nothing I could find in "Security and Maintenance"

I have noticed that ANY attempt to interact with the auto train dialog causes a hang. Even selecting an entry in the Presets drop down menu.

Hi:

Hmm, doesnt sound like the tables, sounds more like its locking up on something..

Have you tried a general reset, ... start the program, kill it with the task manager of
windows. Restart and it will ask if youd like to reset the settings. Say yes. Any change?

Art