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Graphics viewer does not work ... window opens ... but graphics do not appear
on any of the modules ... the text portion of the graphics viewer does work

Any ideas?

BRIAN MOSELEY wrote:

Graphics viewer does not work ... window opens ... but graphics do
not appear
on any of the modules

a) As best as I can determine, Rick fixed that bug in e-Sword 9.9.0. More precisely, the map/graphic resources that I know usually display incorrectly, if at all, do display correctly with e-Sword 9.9.0.

Jack Phinney, in a message at http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1459;forum=1;msg=95146 wrote: « However, the maps that we've tested call on unimplemented code, and don't work properly. When you click on the "graphics" button in e-sword, the Maps dialogue will be blank. You can see the maps by using the "print preview" mode, but the normal map viewer window will be mostly blank.» For officially released Map/Graphic resources, that solution will work. For user created resources, that solution should, but need not work.

b) User created map/graphic resources are as likely to display properly as not. This is not a platform dependent thing. (Arguably it is, since graphic resources that cause e-Sword on Windows to crash, don't cause e-Sword under either CrossOver, or WINE to crash.)

I won't give the specifications for map/graphic resources here, but e-Sword is very picky about adherence to those specifications. The majority of user created map/graphic resources do not adhere to those specifications. That said, e-Sword 9.90 does appear to be more tolerant of non-adherence to those criteria than e-Sword 9.8.3.

c) None of the utility programs that convert e-Sword 8.x resources to e-Sword 9.x reliably convert Map resources. The usual result is to have an empty resource. If the file size is 3072, the map/graphic resource contains no data, but appears in e-Sword as if it does contain the purported content.

jonathon