frame 8 and 9 crashing

[Anita Legsdin]

I have a file that reduces both Frame 9 (p237) as well as Frame 8 to a pile
of dusty rubble, although I'm wondering why it's only starting to crash NOW.
The file has been in production since September, and this is the 4th update
to it. Here are the particulars:
 1. Windows 7, 32-bit
 2. There are 2 major conditions in the file (SOAP and XML)
 3. Frame crashes when creating only one of the conditions (XML)
 4. It didn't start crashing until I added this 4th update--which is located
far from the location which is messed up.

I added a new table, with about 8 rows at the end of the table marked with
the SOAP condition. About 8 or 10 pages later is the table which has been in
the file, unchanged, since the first version; the first 3 rows of this table
have alternating SOAP and XML conditions applied. This is the page that is
now, suddenly, messed up. The .fm file that I reopen after the crash has
text superimposed on top of other text (only on the page with this last,
original, table). The SOAP version of the guide is produced with no
complaint; it's only when I try to set the XML condition that Frame screams
and disappears. The error happens immediately after I set the Show/Hide
Conditions dialog.

With Frame 9, the crash is sudden and violent. Frame 8's crash is much more
polite (the error message is not the system error message, but a note from
Frame saying it has encountered an error and needs to quit).

If someone wants to see the actual file, I can email it to you. If you have
any hints, I'd appreciate hearing them. I finally removed the special
conditions applied to the first 3 rows of the original table, and now it
works smoothly, without crashing. What I don't understand is, if I added
section B, why should it be section A, in a different part of the chapter,
that fails?

Thanks,

Anita Legsdin
Technical Writer
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