In message <[email protected]>
          george greenfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
> 
>> In message <[email protected]>
>>           Peter Howkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:14:44PM +0000, george greenfield wrote:
>>>> Is anyone running Photodesk (3.09 or 3.10) successfully on 0.8.9?
>>>> 
>>>> I'm getting an 'insufficient memory (case 4)' error in a task window
>>>> when attempting to save retouched JPEGs since upgrading from 0.8.8.
>>>> I've set 256MB of RAM and a large image cache (15x the size of the
>>>> retouched file).
>>> 
>>> Try reducing the memory to 128MB and retesting, it appears many versions
>>> of RISC OS have issues with 256MB.
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>> Problem persists with memory reduced to 128MB, unfortunately. I tried
>> the previous version of Photodesk, 3.09, on an earlier installation of
>> RPCEmu 0.8.8/4.02 (same PC) and the retouched JPEG saved normally.
>> 
>> George
>> 
> RPCEmu 0.8.9 has been exonerated! It turns out that what you MUSTN'T
> do is add Photodesk to Resources:$.Apps (which is what I had done a
> few days previously). It was only when I copied across my current copy
> of !Boot into the 0.8.8 installation, whereupon the problem magically
> reappeared, that I realized what the actual cause might be. Photodesk
> now runs (and saves - touching wood) happily from Utilities in
> 0.8.9/4.02. I've left RAM at 128MB just in case, however.
> 
> George
> 
After considerable experimentation, I can summarise the functioning of 
Photodesk (at least on my current RPCEmu setup*) as follows, if anyone 
is interested:

1. Photodesk runs and saves correctly from Resources:$.Apps - what I 
said above is WRONG.

2. Photodesk will save Sprites and Tiffs (I haven't tested other 
formats than these and JPEGs as I don't use them).

3. Photodesk will save JPEGs /providing/ the 'Optimise' box is not 
ticked. If the 'Optimise' box is ticked, the save will invariably fail 
with the 'insufficient memory (case 4)' error message referred-to 
above. The quality percentage selected is not a factor either way, as 
far as I can establish.

This is not a bug in Photodesk; I've made the same tests on my Iyonix 
without encountering the insufficient memory issue. Whether it's a 
peculiarity of RPCEmu in general or my particular installation, 
remains to be determined. There was no difference in the behaviour of 
0.8.8 and 0.8.9. on this system. I didn't test on 0.8.X/5.17 because 
Photodesk will not install on a HostFS drive.

(*RPCEmu 0.8.9 + RO 4.02 on Windows 7 (64-bit), 128MB RAM, Recompiler 
mode)

George

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george greenfield

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