Framemaker 8 hangs

[Yvonne DeGraw]

Hi David,

I've encountered the same hanging issue when using the mouse to 
select with FM 7.0 on Win 7 64-bit. Never had that problem with Win 
XP either. My solution, when I need to use FM 7, is to "not do that" 
as much as possible. I've pretty much trained myself to use keyboard 
selection (and save a lot). My hands still mess up from time-to-time. 
I've noticed that it happens more when you hesitate or pause a bit 
longer during the mouse-drag selection. It usually works if you are 
quick about it--but still not worth hanging with no .recover file if 
you haven't saved recently.

I don't have this problem with FM 10 on Win 7 64-bit, and I've tried 
it with a long pause during the drag just to be sure.

I don't minimize windows much (2 big displays), so I don't know about that.

Linda G. Gallagher wrote:
>David,
>
>I've seen the same thing when highlighting with a mouse with my 
>installation of FM 8 on Win 7 64-bit. I don't recall ever having 
>that problem in all the years I used FM 8 on Win XP.
>
>I don't think this really fixed it, but I did find that I was 
>missing an update. I believe the latest version is 8.0p277. Make 
>sure you have that.
>
>If you find a solution, please let us know.
>
>I've not noticed the minimize window problem.
>

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