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I am just trying the RoboHelp 8 trial.
Error signature is:
AppName: robohtml.exe AppVer: 8.0.0.203 ModName: toolkitpro1042vc80u.dll
ModVer: 10.4.2.0 Offset: 001b2b92
Any ideas, anyone?
(BTW, this system does not allow me to upload environment files with .rhs extension. This is daft! Please pass on...)
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Any ideas, anyone?
Report to Adobe as a bug?
Click here to visit the Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick
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Thanks Rick - Bug Reported.
(This forum site is as slow as a slug, isn't it?)
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Hi, Philip
I have just opened over ten .rhs environments in RH 8 made with RH 7. Some of these are pretty weird with "pinned" tabs and strange contortions I used for testing. One I had received from Rick in November of 2007. So, I'm trying to figure out what might be different between our setups.
One thing that sticks out in your error message is a reference to "toolkitpro1042vc80u.dll"
This would seem to refer to the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 which was an optional installation that is new to RoboHelp 8 to support the new scripting features. Maybe you missed this step in the Trial installation? Perhaps you could look under Add/Remove and see if Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 is installed. If not, I wonder if this is a requirement to assure compatibility with .rhs created in older versions?
I'm glad you reported it as a bug, because if the toolkit is a requirement, this needs to be documented or the toolkit is not "optional" afterall.
Just a thought...
John Daigle
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Hello John,
Thanks for your email.
It could be that the original file was corrupted in some way, but still
works in RH7 (attached).
See my last posting; I managed to open one of Peter's environment files and
rearrange that into what I want (attached).
The reason I choose this environment is that, on a screen of 1024 x 768
resolution, my environment offers 41% of the total screen area for working
in a topic, plus full-height views of the Project Manager, ToC, Index,
Glossary and Topics List panes. It is much easier to work with than the
default environment, which only allows 28% screen area for the topic.
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STOP PRESS
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I just opened RH8 afresh to capture a screenshot for you. I loaded the
environment file that I had just created, and it went through the same CRASH
sequence as I had before.
Could this be a corrupted RH8 installation? Or is it because I didnt
install the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit CS4, because I'm a Tech Author and
wouldnt know how to write scripts.
Sincerely,
Philip Tory BSc(Hons), Dip.M.
Director
Authorgraphic Ltd
Technical Writing and Training
Courses: Technical Writing - Writing Business Emails - RoboHelp
Documentation: Manuals - PDF - Online Help Guides
Unit 29, King Edwards Avenue, Gloucester GL1 5DD
Tel: 01452 - 500 639
www.authorgraphic.co.uk
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Hello Guys, (Vivek for info)
Forum http://forums.adobe.com/message/1929418
The "answer" didn't work after all; RH8 Trial is still crashing when I load
environment files.
So I uninstalled RH8, rebooted the PC, reinstalled RH8, and took a video
capture of the resulting crash and the steps I took to get there. See
attached "authorgraphic_robohelp_8_crashed_exe.txt". Just change the
extension to .exe and run it. (I have virus-scanned it with Norton
Anti-Virus, so it's OK.)
Sorry, I couldn't get along with Captivate; this is done with BB Flashback.
Is this a bug? What next, I wonder? Try running it on another PC?
Philip
Sincerely,
Philip Tory,
Authorgraphic Ltd UK
Tel: +44 (0)1452 - 500 639
www.authorgraphic.co.uk
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Hi Philip,
I've been trying out a trial version of RH 8 for the past week and also experienced crashes. I installed it on three different machines. On each machine, the first thing I did was to load my environment from RH 7. On each machine, RH crashed after a few minutes. On the first two machines,
it crashed only once on each machine. On the third machine, it has crashed probably three times. I didn't relate the crashing to the loading of the environment, but I suppose that could have something to do with it.
However, RH 8 just doesn't seem very stable in general. Each time it crashed, it lost my environment setting as well as my turning off of personalized menus. It also seems to run very slowly. Text input, opening of dialog boxes, and just getting cursor focus are sometimes unbearable slow. I applied the "fix" from Peter Grainge's site and that seems to have helped somewhat but not entirely. Also, I shut down RH at one point because it was running so slowly, and after starting it back up, all of the paragraph styles I had defined and all the edits to existing paragraph styles that I had made were gone!
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Hello Alan,
Sorry, I cannot help you with an answer. I'm still using RH7 because it's stable and I don't have these hassles. I hope they'll fix the problem somehow with a minor release; then I'll give it another try a bit later on.
Try sending feedback to Adobe using the link farther up the page?