Preview generator aborts

stephen · Post by **stephen** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:18 am

I'm using Moho 5.1 on Mac OSX 10.3
I press F5 to generate a preview. My animation is complicated so it will take quite a while to generate the preview, so I decide to read my mail. As soon as I click in the mail window and Moho is no longer the active window, the preview generation stops.
Sometimes it keeps generating until I've clicked to a few other windows. but most of the time just clicking to one other window stops it. It also does not seem to matter if I use the dock to switch to another window.

Curiously, sometimes when the preview is being generated and it stops when I click to another window, if I then try to click back to moho by clicking onto the moho window, it will refuse to become the active window. It just stays on the bottom. Even more curiously if I double click on the partially hidden moho window title bar, it minimises to the dock momentarilly and comes back, but still does not become the active window, it remains underneath the most recent active window. The only way to make Moho the active window when it is in this state is to click on its icon in the Dock.

One or two bugs here I think.

Stephen

stephen · Post by **stephen** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:44 pm

I'm sorry, I thought I'd get at least some comment on this.
Having the preview generation abort because you click to another window makes it pretty useless for a complex animation. It means I have to sit and do nothing while the preview is getting generated, what a time sink.

Stephen

Toontoonz · Post by **Toontoonz** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:01 pm

I just tried it on the Windows computer I use for Moho and it does the same thing you describe.
Go to the desktop or another program while the F5 Preview is rendering itself and it has disappeared when I come back.

By the way, on my computer I found the F5 preview takes almost as long to render as just exporting the animation as tiny 160 x 120 QT movie so I usually end up doing that-get a better quality preview that way.
-But then my animation probably was not as complicated as yours.

And this type rendering does not disappear when one switches to another program.

Post by **Lost Marble** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:42 pm

stephen wrote:I'm sorry, I thought I'd get at least some comment on this.

Looking into it...

stephen · Post by **stephen** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:12 am

Lost Marble wrote:
stephen wrote:I'm sorry, I thought I'd get at least some comment on this.
Looking into it...

Thanks

I know you have a lot to do, thanks for looking into it.
Moho is a great program for making animations, I really appreciate it.

Stephen