For the sake of possibly supplying some better understanding, here you go
AJ.
The issues which I saw this morning were within a single session, i.e.
everything was working fine and normal and then it wasn't. So it would not
seem to be some leftover from a previous session or the last day.
With the font issue, I was editing a bunch of component fields on
several parts. Most went just fine and then I opened one and the window was
a different size and shape (30% bigger & tabs split to two rows). The next
thing I noticed was that the font in the window was bold and not the normal
system font.
With the ignorant command strings, I had also been working along for
a reasonable time using all the regular shortcut keys that I normally use,
select inside, move selection, deselect all, etc., etc.. Everything was
fine. I selected a small group of symbols, it highlighted fine, pressed "M",
"S", nothing happened. Tried several key stroke shortcuts, nothing happened.
A few of the menu commands worked and I saved my work, closed the DDB and
closed Protel. Restarted Protel and the problem was gone and I haven't run
into either again today.
I normally leave my system (NT4) turned on but logout regularly
every evening. So no cold boot. No warm boot. Just login each morning.
Yes I have seen the infamous Protel not shutting down a few times
that I have caught it, usually when logging out at night and then the logout
tells me that Protel is still running. When this occurs I then usually
double check through Task Manager to make sure Protel is now completely
shut-down before I retry to logout.
Brad Velander,
Lead PCB Designer,
Norsat International Inc.,
#300 - 4401 Still Creek Dr.,
Burnaby, B.C., V5C 6G9.
Tel. (604) 292-9089 direct
Fax (604) 292-9010
website www.norsat.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew J Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:17 PM
> To: Protel EDA Forum
> Subject: Re: [PEDA] The Mysteries of Altium, Jeraldo investigates stay
> tuned.
>
>
>
> Seen it. sporadic, so again attributed to the program's
> idiosyncrasies, perhaps some more of that boasting about "10
> minutes for a day's work" thingy I just read about in another post<g>
>
> >Several other commands are also not functioning. Shut down
> >Protel, restarted, system came back up with everything
> working normal. A day
> >and a half later I have not seen the same problem again (in
> the past I have
> >seen this several times and just want to avoid the slow
> shutdown, restart
> >routine).
>
> Try closing your work, and then kill the app (from NT's task
> manager) and restart. Perhaps something's being left behind
> during shutdown. Protel doesn't always letcha know when
> things don't shutdown properly.
>
> Q: do you leave your system up all the time, or does it get
> turned off at the end of the day?
>
> Neither NT or 2k are absolutely immune to leftovers and
> dangling crud, just significantly more bullet-proof than
> their predecessors. I like to shutdown and restart (from the
> OFF position) at least every other day.
>
> r,
>
> aj
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