Textbox bug in E-Prime

[Rick O'Gorman]

Apologies for the gap since this was last covered--been tied up with 
marking. :(

I haven't had the problem of having a file be corrupted due to a 
crash--that really puts the frighteners up me!

I think everyone appreciates that complex software will have some bugs, 
but basic things should work well, as should critical things. E-Prime 
appears to get critical things right (timing, doesn't crash running 
experiments) but I don't think editing a textbox should crash a program! 
Apparently this is to be fixed (I took the issue up with PST in their 
online support) in the final candidate, but that's not out yet.

I'm not touching the SPSS topic, except to note that I'm not as locked 
into E-Prime. :)

Rick

Michiel Spape wrote:
> 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
>>
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>>
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>>                                    ~Edith Wharton
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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

No passion can survive a woman's seeing her lover hold
his fork in the wrong way.
                                   ~Edith Wharton

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