Textbox bug in E-Prime

[Michiel Spape]

Hi,
The corrupted e-studio files following crashes, although not happening often, are indeed absolutely horrendous - and could easily be avoided if only e-studio would automatically save backups (like office, for example). They happened in E-Prime 1 as well, and I remember one of my students had it near the end of an exam (of my e-prime course). What are you supposed to do if that happens? Considering it was not the student's fault, we decided to have a look at the E-Run file and have her TELL us what she had wanted to do with it before E-Prime went bananas - but that is not a really practical solution.

Anyway, all the best with your E-Misery, I think we all know it has certain weaknesses that are about as likely to be fixed as SPSS is to better with version 20 (expected release in 3 months).
Best,

Michiel Spapé
Research Fellow
Perception & Action group
University of Nottingham
School of Psychology

-----Original Message-----
From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of frankbosco
Sent: 04 May 2009 22:12
To: E-Prime
Subject: Re: Textbox bug in E-Prime


Rick,

ABSOLUTELY!  This drives me nuts, as well.  For me, it happens
especially when adding more that 20-30 characters to a textbox within
a slide.  What's the deal, E-Prime???  Sometimes, I think that the
only feature in E-Prime that works 100% flawlessly is their copyright
protection (which, by the way, wastes a great deal of time when
working/opening/saving in E-Studio!).   Another warning re: E-Prime
2.0:  E-Studio randomly deleted an .es2 file on me (after crashing, of
course) that I had been working on for several days.  I almost lost
it.  Now, I need to save 2 copies of each .es2 file (huge waste of my
time).  While I'm complaining about E-Prime 2.0, I would really like
to have a set of user's manuals (in print) - I find a 2-year release
candidacy to be semi-unacceptable (especially for a software that
costs $800 or more!).  I think this may be my last E-Prime purchase --
I may look into other options in the future.

-Frank

On May 4, 3:14 pm, Rick O'Gorman <rickogor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Out of curiousity, is anyone else besides me finding a serious and
> regular bug in editing textboxes within slides, such that E-Prime
> crashes? I'm using 2.0.8.22 RC. It's driving me nuts. It's so bad that I
> run a second version of E-Prime now ready to go when one crashes,
> because E-Prime takes so long to open and then open the file I am
> working with (and no--this is not a cause of the bug; I've only recently
> started doing this to salvage my sanity!).
>
> Rick
> --
> Rick O'Gorman, PhD
> Psychology, Faculty of Development and Society
> Collegiate Crescent Campus,
> Sheffield Hallam University,
> Sheffield
> S10 2BP
>
> Phone: 0114 225 5788 Fax: 0114 225 2430
>
> http://www.shu.ac.uk/psychology/staff/OGorman.html
>
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>                                    ~Edith Wharton


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