I wasn't going to bother this forum until I had finished the manual(s), but I have encountered a very serious problem.
I gave up Workbench entirely, and now boot only DOpus. In a way, I'm cheating, because it looks very much like Workbench, especially since I found out how to get my WB Leave-outs to come on the DOpus screen. (What a mess; I'm going to do a lot of reconfiguration as soon as I have a good grip on what I'm doing.)
But... I have been using PageStream 5.0.5.8 Pro for several years to do some small but essential tasks. I have not been able to launch it under DOpus5. CPUInfo indicates 95~100% for about 15 seconds, then stops, CPU usage dropping to 5~15% range.
Three attempts have produced exactly the same 2,344 line debug file, ending with
FT_Done_Face calling FT_Done_Face returned fontpath_update done
What I assume conks it out is the following task(s), which in an un-crashed debug file would be
Are there any clues here? Are other WBR DOpus users able to run PageStream properly? Am I going to have to practice switching C:LoadWB-old and LoadWB back and forth from their other identities?
I use Pagestream 4.5ish 68k, 2.2 and 5.x have never worked on my X1000, even with 4.5 I can only run it once without having to reboot. run, quit, run crash...
try changing the way you start it. try these combinations.
amigados pagestream amigados wbrun pagestream workbench pagestream workbench pagestream with pagestreams icon changed to run from shell
There are 2 programs that I know of that will not run with dopus5 running, ADPRO and pagestram 2.2 although pagestream 2.2 is unconfirmed as I never ran it on my X before switching to WBR mode.
I wasn't sure exactly what you mean, but I tried running it from a shell:
6.System:> run Apps:pgs5058/pagestream5
and it came up! Thanks for the hint. There was one scary dip in CPU usage, but it recovered immediately.
It is strange that 68K PageStream 5.0.5.8 Pro works rather well on my machines (starting with the original AmigaOne and OS4.1 ver 6, the SAM, and the X1000) while many others seem to have problems with it, but I'm secretly glad it isn't the other way around.
4.1.4.6 (?) stopped working; probably problems with assigns that I was too dumb/lazy to fix.
@nbache Scary because the only previous time I had seen it dip when loading PgS was when it was about to conk out. Dipping and recovering is a new phenom here; I always watch CPUInfo when it is launching -- when the solid part gets to the "100%" in the upper left corner, I know the PgS screen is about to appear -- and I've only seen that dip twice when it wasn't about to crash, two of the last three successful launches.
@Trixie I seem to recall a time when I had to -- or thought I had to -- launch from CLI, but I had been doing it from Workbench icon for over three years at least. Even from the DOpus WBR screen, it gets more than half-way there before it dies.
Granted, it isn't the most stable program in the world. Sometimes it crashes the machine when I ask Open Recent. When I reboot, I start a new file first, and then Open Recent. That always seems to work.
I can still run DM2, and if I do so, and select the PageStream5 executable and then click Run Selected in the Launch menu, up comes the application just as it used to when I clicked the Workbench icon.