Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions wrote
>> Note that there is a nasty bug in FileIO Xtra which will crash Director is
>> you try repeating through a large list creating files.
>
> What is your basis for this claim. I've used FileIO extensively and not had
> this problem. What version of Director? What OS?
Hi Bruce,
Sorry - I should have been more explicit. I use FileIO extensively without
much problem, except that I have found that in Authoring Mode on a Mac, that
if I repeat through a large list creating text files, Director will crash or
'quit out unexpectedly' part way through the list. This has happened quite
consistently over the years (Different versions of Director, MacOS - most
recently, MacOS 9.0.4 and D7, FileIO 7.0.2r85 - I think it was). I was told
years ago that there was a memory leak with FileIO and that it 'was a known
problem' about creating several files within a repeat loop - and my
experiences seemed to confirm this. I've never really bothered to verify the
claim, happy with workarounds that work fine (such as writing the files out
on stepframe or some other threaded system). If you've never heard of the
problem, then it may well be a furphy.
Luke
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