Okay, I've had a long last five hours tearing my hair out trying to figure out what's going on. Here's the scenario. Earlier today I was working on a simple app in RB2006r1. I hit "Run" and got the compile progress bar and a "rainbow cursor" that would not go away. I switched to other programs and though they were initially responsive, within seconds they too had the same eternal rainbow cursor. Then I noticed the Dock was dead (app names not showing up when you point at the icons). So I had to a hard reset to reboot.
After rebooting, I continued to have the same problem with the eternal rainbow cursor showing up. At first it seemed random, then I figured out it was happening every time I opened the folder that contain the project I'd been working on. Figuring that folder was damaged, I ran Disk Utilities and DiskWarrior to no avail. Finally I resorted to Terminal and navigated to that project folder and deleted the "My Application.debug" file. Once that file was deleted, everything worked fine again. I could view the folder in the Finder, etc. Now here's the problem: I can't seem to compiled ANYTHING in RB2006 any more! I downloaded and installed r3 and it does the exact same thing. Even starting with a brand new empty project and hitting "Run" or "Build" causes the same eternal rainbow cursor! Even worse, the half-created (I'm assuming it's only half there) application file is apparently deadly to the Finder and OS as any attempts to look at the folder it is in causes the rainbow cursor problem. I have to use Terminal to delete the file just to get my OS working again! Obviously, this is not a viable work situation. I basically cannot compile in RB and if I do, it hoses the folder I compile into and locks up my Mac with an eternal rainbow cursor and forces a hard reboot (I cannot get Force Quit or anything to work once the rainbow cursor takes over). But I'm at a loss as to how to fix this or where to even troubleshoot. I installed a whole new version of RBr3 during this process and that didn't help, so it's not specific to a particular version of RB. That makes me think it's some sort of conflict with an OS library or something else on my system that that RB uses during compiling that might have become corrupted or something, but I don't even know where to begin to look. Does anyone out there have any ideas? Should I reinstall something (and if so, what)? What in the world is RB doing during compilation that might cause this kind of thing? This is a fresh install of RB2006r3 dragged right off the Disk Image with no additional plugins or anything. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.4 on a 1Gz PowerBook G4 with 1GB of RAM. Ideas? Anyone? -- Marc Zeedar Publisher REALbasic Developer Magazine http://www.rbdeveloper.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
