E-Prime Stability

[David Vinson]

Hi Michiel,

I'm still plodding along using an XP box for my main development 
platform, EP Pro latest version and it seems to be much more stable than 
you've experienced: P(crash per 1hr) << 5%. Although I haven't done 
anything particularly unusual or exploratory lately.

I have had quite a few crashes on running during development - the usual 
difficulties getting videos to work; loading nested Lists from file; but 
none of these are related to e-studio stability.

Copy-pasting from multiple open experiments, no problem at all; dragging 
objects around, ditto. No weird red X's either. Probably your 
development and mine is comparing apples and oranges, but my rate of 
crashes within E-Studio 2.x has been pretty constant (and low) for quite 
some time. Maybe it's more stable on XP?

Obviously this isn't much of a long term solution given the impending 
end of support for XP and perhaps some strong institutional pressure to 
move on.... I'd be interested to know about others' experiences too.

best,
DV


On 10/10/2013 14:20, Cognitology wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Given that E-Prime 2 is now pretty much a final release, I was 
> wondering how many of you feel it remains **particularly** instable? I 
> mean, E-Studio (2, pro), latest version, and I don’t stupid crashes 
> (say, recursively calling the sessionproc from a list within 
> sessionproc). Just things like
>
> ·Writing inline:
>
> Try typing:
>
> /*
>
> Hoppa
>
> */.
>
> Works! Automatically becomes
>
> ‘/*
>
> ‘Hoppa
>
> ‘*/.
>
> Now commented out. However, type in an inline (not the user part)
>
> ‘/*
>
> Hoppa
>
> */....CRASH!
>
> ·Just dragging objects around, adding attributes, all sorts of 
> randomness. Sometimes, there are nice big red crosses where graphics 
> usually are.
>
> The latter is the more annoying part. In general, when I’m developing 
> something, on both my laptop and home pc (both win7prox64), this 
> happens. In my experience, in fact, most people, even if they are very 
> experienced, have random stability issues with e-studio. My question 
> then is: does the list have similar issues? Say, if you’ve been doing 
> some development, what is the chance that e-prime will crash within 60 
> minutes? I’m estimating it at 80% here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michiel
>
> Michiel Sovijärvi-Spapé
>
> Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
>
> Aalto & Helsingin Yliopisto,
>
> Finland
>
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