Re: OE Tool problem

From: Steve Cochran (scochran_at_oehelp.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 08:32:45 -0400

Good luck to you. <G>

steve

"jt3" <jt3@cranky.computer> wrote in message news:OydJKBgSEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Thanks. Will try again when I can--machine went down this PM and I may be a
> while getting it back up.
> Good luck,
> Joe
> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
> news:uel3r5aSEHA.3844@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> No problem. I suspect its a resource issue, given the machine you have.
> That function of the program simulates the user actions, and its a hack, and
> I expect its going too fast for your system to catch up with.
>
> What occured to me that what you might try is a defrag and see if that has
> an effect.
>
> cheers,
>
> steve
>
> "jt3" <jt3@creaky.computer> wrote in message
> news:eAxQMgMSEHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> I'm sorry I wasn't clear. One cannot exit at that point because the
>> application and machine are hung and there is no response to the mouse.
> But
>> in any event I did not mean my post as a complaint but in the spirit of
>> providing you some information, should you be looking at your code
> sometime,
>> in the spirit of your statement, 'This issue is being investigated.'
>> It does this with regularity on this machine, and in the same spirit
>> I'll mention that a possibility that this suggests to me is one of timing,
>> since this is a 486 DX4-100 VL bus machine, 64 MB RAM, using a Promise
>> VL-Bus controller to operate HDs and CDR/RW drive, along with an UltraStor
>> VL-Bus SCSI adapter to operate a scanner, so I am used to having things
>> stretched as far as they will go, you see.
>> Since the machine doesn't take well to loading, I generally unload all
>> the excess stuff using MSCONFIG to get maximum access to both the bus and
>> memory, and the machine does tolerably well, for such an old one, except
> on
>> pages with too much scripting, etc.
>> Anyhow, the point is that it's normally very reliable, but on the times
>> it's given me trouble, the issues have been suggestive of timing
> precision,
>> and though that might be hard to translate through the layers of 9x,
> perhaps
>> it will provide some help.
>>
>> Best of Luck,
>> Joe
>> "Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
>> news:OPtVldJSEHA.3528@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> As I indicated, I can't figure out why on some systems it works and why on
>> others it doesn't. Its one of those problems that I can't diagnose, since
> I
>> can't reproduce it with regularity.
>>
>> Sorry.
>>
>> You can exit OETool without using Task manager by right clicking on the
> icon
>> in the system tray and choosing exit.
>>
>> steve
>>
>> "jt3" <jt3@creaky.computer> wrote in message
>> news:%23hKGNwCSEHA.1340@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> Tried unloading everything except systray.exe (via Msconfig); still
> the
>>> same:
>>> 1) click on toggle text mode:
>>> button icons change to 'HTML', after Options menu comes up and is
>>> cancelled, but no change in the text mode on screen.
>>> 2) Retry, Options menu again, cancel, no change (in display and icon
> still
>>> HTML); retry,
>>> 3) Options again, cancel, *ding*, small 'OE Tool' box comes up: General 3
>>> comes up, at this point, it hangs.
>>> 4) Use Task Mgr (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to kill OE Tool, and then OE works OK.
>>> 5) Tried then toggling the same mail using the Options menu, Read, Plain
>>> text, and it worked just fine.
>>> Writing this, I see that I didn't check the reverse process, i.e.,
>>> having OE in HTML mode first then loading OE Tool and trying the toggle
>>> then.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>> Steve Cochran" <scochran@oehelp.com> wrote in message
>>> news:eVnbs98REHA.3840@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Its a very tricky thing when those problems show up. I can't figure out
>> why
>>> they occur when they do. It does work in Win98. Try disabling all
>> running
>>> programs besides OE and OETool and see if it works better then. I think
>>> when system resources are very limited, then these problems are
>> exacerbated.
>>>
>>> steve
>>>
>>> "jt3" <jt3@creaky.computer> wrote in message
>>> news:eSrp%23YgREHA.3912@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>> Downloaded OE Tool and tried it, great idea but can't get it to work
>>>> properly--just as described on the Web pg in the caveats, the Options
>> menu
>>>> comes up and then continually reappearing small boxes with, e.g.,
> General
>>>> 3, or other tabs mentioned. But more of a problem is that I can't get
>> the
>>>> toggle on the text/HTML to work at all, once it has made a switch--just
>>>> keeps bringing up the options menu. The caveats seem to suggest that
>> such
>>> a
>>>> case is hopeless on 98SE--that so?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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