Ovation Pro: Error type 5

What means error:

OvationPro has suffered an internal error type=5.

This happend when I scroll up and down in the text with the mouse. But only when a jpg picture is inserted in the text.

Micky

To me it looks like a problem outside OvationPro, as it usually scrolls happily through the most complex layouts and different sorts of images. What happens if you replace the JPEG by a sprite, or a draw file?

What version of OvPro, by the way? The latest is 2.78g; though my 2.77y – must update it – scrolls stuff without issue.

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Okay, just updated. Made a doc containing some of my backdrop JPEGs. Scrolls fine using the mouse wheel.

Whoa – what’s with the dialogue backgrounds? ;)

Whoa – what’s with the dialogue backgrounds? ;)

There’s an applet called !Custom
If there’s a sprite file within that called (IIRC) T1 or something similar then that is used for dialogue backgrounds.

internal error type=5 sounds to me like OvPro catching a C signal 5 (SIGSEGV, bad memory access)

Has the Raspberry Pi 3b+ to few memory?

Micky

This happend when I scroll up and down in the text with the mouse. But only when a jpg picture is inserted in the text.

First thing would be to save the document as DDL. Then drop it back over the Ovation Pro icon on the iconbar. This will rebuild the document and can often ‘fix’ a corrupt document.

Does the error occur as soon as the jpeg comes into view?

Another option is to unselected pictures in the view options. Then see if you can scroll past the frame combining the jpeg. It could be that the jpeg is corrupt.

Even if pictures are hidden you can still select the frame and save out the jpeg to test it loads in other viewers.

Has the Raspberry Pi 3b+ to few memory?

No it is fine. The Pi 3b+ has plenty of memory for Ovation Pro

Has the Raspberry Pi 3b+ to few memory?

With RISC OS? Quite the opposite. ;)

That error means a memory access violation – often due to a stray pointer causing an access to memory that doesn’t exist (memory mapping is “complicated”).

As Paul asks, does it happen with other sorts of images (sprites or draw files)? It could be something odd about one of the JPEGs you’re using that’s upsetting things.

Other good suggestions above by Gavin (my reply is late because for a while ROOL fell off the internet, DNS cockup at 🍊?).

Ok, I test it out.

Micky

Ovation Pro is version 2.78g.

I converted the JPEG to Tiff, Sprite type 6, same error after some scrolling.

Yes, both pictures are ok. I test it with Irfan View.

Next I save the Ovation Pro file as DDL file, close the program. Open Ovation Pro again and load the DDL file. Then I save this as Ovation Pro file. Close the program. Open Ovation Pro and load the Ovation Pro file. Same error.

The next trial is to copy picture frame, paste picture frame and then delete the old picture frame with the JPEG picture. The error message came again. Same with the Tiff picture.

Next trial is to reduce the colors from 16 million to 64 thousend. Much better.

Micky

Unfortunately I’m away from a RISC OS computer for a week, which makes it difficult for me to test things, but may be if you could make the document available online, then others may be able to see if it loads on their systems.

If you start with an empty document and create a blank frame, then drop a jpeg into the frame – does that cause the crash?

As Rick asked earlier, are you using the latest version of Ovation Pro?
Also, have you installed any additional applets inside Ovation Pro? Applets are Ovation Pro’s ‘plug-in’ system that provide extra features. If you added any third party applets you can temporarily switch them off by opening the Applets directory inside Ovation Pro and double-click on an applet name. The name will change to end with a hyphen/minus sign ‘-’ which means it is switch off. Double click again will switch them back on. But remember that Ovation Pro needs to be quit and rerun for the changes to take effect.

Sorry Micky, I can now see you have stated the version number. I missed that.

The text is from Windows Lotus Word Pro. Saved as RTF. I have imported it with !TransRTF 2.02. Without the JPEG picture. I put it in the text after the import and save the text as Ovation Pro file. So far so good.

After this the error message begun.

This is a good idea from you and I have copied the text into a new Document and put the JPEG picture into the text. Saving as Ovation Pro file. Seems to work with 16 million colors.

Thanks for your very good tip!

Micky