Resizing main text frame, was: Framemaker 8, Windows 8.1 and click-and-drag

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi Dave,

I also noticed that FrameMaker crashed sometimes when
I resize a frame down to the bottom. In my case it was the
main text frame on a body page. Windows 7 Enterprise,
FrameMaker 8, 10, 11.

I did not test yet, whether it happened less often when I drag the
frame slowly. I noticed it less often with FrameMaker 11 (now maybe
once a month). My assumption was that there are problems with
certain files. MIF washing did not help.

Best regards

Winfried

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dave Reynolds
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 3:42 AM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; 'Lea Rush'
Subject: Re: Framemaker 8, Windows 8.1 and click-and-drag

Hi Lea and Rick

Does it depend on how quickly you drag the cursor across the text? I'm using Frame 8 on Win 7 and I've had a few crashes when resizing an anchored frame down the page. I can't prove it, but I feel it might be to do with how quickly I drag the frame handle. So, if I now have to make an anchored frame a lot bigger, and drag the handle a long way down the page, I do it slowly. Seems to have worked so far.

Cheers

Dave
Rick Quatro wrote, on 17/09/2013 11:41 a.m.:
Hi Lea,

I have seen the same behavior with FrameMaker 7.2 and 8 with Windows 7.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com<mailto:rick at frameexpert.com>



From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lea Rush
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 7:25 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Framemaker 8, Windows 8.1 and click-and-drag

Hi all,

I crossed my fingers that FM8 and Win8 would play together reasonably nicely. It's almost fine except for the above-referenced action: click-and-drag to highlight. It doesn't always happen, but when it does, FM freezes irreparably. I have to force it closed, and the autosave may or may not survive. Argh. I use click-and-drag much more often than I realized, and it's pretty much a dealbreaker.

I'm posting less asking for help and more as a warning for my fellow FM8 holdouts. I suspect that I'm going to end up using Remote Desktop to run my Win7 machine on which FM8 worked fine. Do not go unto Win8.1 with old Framemaker; there be monsters.

Lea

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