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#1 2010-10-24 03:04:03

aksthomsen
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Registered: 2010-10-19
Posts: 9

URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

I accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen, it had a little pink window pop up in the corner, and I accidentally closed it.

It said something like small memory or something... besides the window, the screen was just white.

before this happened I clicked on the flag.

I Alt Tabed out, and when ever I get back in It's just a white screen until I alt tab out.

An Answer within one to four hours is a unreasonable request, but I'm afraid I won't have any longer than to solve this, otherwise I'll lose 3 hours of serious debugging on my game, and this is a school assessment piece.

The reason it's so big is because I have a few audio files on it, but I also have thousands of small images, and I also have like about 25 to 35 sprites with an average of 11 lengthy scripts each.

I'd send you a screen shot it's really just a complete white screen so it would be of no use to anyone.

But for what it's worth one of my sprites is a white border, for fade in's and stuff.

It's a game based on Zelda.

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#2 2010-10-24 03:34:14

aksthomsen
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

Update: I Pressed Alt F4 out of desperation, and a small window popped offering to save....

I thought it was the end of my problems, until I reopened it, and it was exactly as I described before, a white screen. Now when I open scratch normally it just has a white screen. So I think it may be something to do with the program in general........

So I guess it's not as Urgent as I made it before.

I wasn't sure how to upload it to my profile, but I uploaded it on google documents. If any of you are interested in looking it.

it's about 53.2MB
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BxfITiRuMx6RODkxY2M3NTUtNDdiMC00MTA1LWIwZmYtZjFmZjA5MWRlYmE4&hl=en_GB&authkey=CM_6yKwL

I'm gonna try downloading the older version of Scratch and try that in the mean time after I restart my computer. This may not be as big as I think.

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#3 2010-10-24 03:45:01

mathematics
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Registered: 2009-03-01
Posts: 1000+

Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

What? 53.2 MB?  yikes

I don't know... maybe the project is too big for Scratch to open?

Last edited by mathematics (2010-10-24 03:45:56)

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#4 2010-10-24 03:49:45

benjamin2
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

mathematics wrote:

What? 53.2 MB?  yikes

I don't know... maybe the project is too big for Scratch to open?

Projects over 10 MB are unshareable. Projects of over 25 MB are likely to freeze Scrtach.


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#5 2010-10-24 04:14:54

aksthomsen
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Registered: 2010-10-19
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

benjamin2 wrote:

mathematics wrote:

What? 53.2 MB?  yikes

I don't know... maybe the project is too big for Scratch to open?

Projects over 10 MB are unshareable. Projects of over 25 MB are likely to freeze Scrtach.

As I said in my second post

aksthomsen wrote:

Now when I open scratch normally it just has a white screen. So I think it may be something to do with the program in general........

I don't think it's project is the problem, but it such did start it. I think I'm gonna reinstall Scratch, I tried restarting my computer it didn't do a thing.

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#6 2010-10-24 04:21:52

mathematics
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

By the way, I can open the project with Scratch, so yeah, the project isn't the problem.

Last edited by mathematics (2010-10-24 04:22:19)

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#7 2010-10-24 04:33:39

aksthomsen
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

mathematics wrote:

By the way, I can open the project with Scratch, so yeah, the project isn't the problem.

that's good to know..

I'm not sure how well it saved, so out of curiosity is there 6 or so sprites that look like bats? If there is it must have saved well.

I've uninstalled the program and I'm downloading the 1.4 version atm.

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#8 2010-10-24 04:46:08

aksthomsen
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

Well I've reinstalled the program, and to my disappointment it didn't save form where I was Hoping.....

I guess I'm gonna have to get some serious work done to catch up  sad

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#9 2010-10-24 14:18:59

fg123
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

Ouch, scratch is like that.  sad


Hai.

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#10 2010-10-24 14:37:10

bbbeb
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Registered: 2009-06-11
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

If it's just a white screen ONLY, then:

Right click the open space

Select open...

Select Scratch

Then Scratch should open.

Then ShiftClick the R

And Select Save Image For End User.

That should Reset the Scratch Frame.

And also....

I recommend you dont use more than 500 pictures (whether they are 10 pixels to 1000 pixels)

Last edited by bbbeb (2010-10-24 14:39:24)


Back in my day.... there were no laws that censored the internet... now, there are.... nah.

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#11 2010-10-24 14:57:33

fg123
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

Woah, we can do that? o.O I didn't know.  sad  I worked so hard of Xenotype 9 and that happened so I lost all work.


Hai.

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#12 2010-10-24 18:30:42

aksthomsen
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Registered: 2010-10-19
Posts: 9

Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

bbbeb wrote:

If it's just a white screen ONLY, then:

Right click the open space

Select open...

Select Scratch

Then Scratch should open.

Then ShiftClick the R

And Select Save Image For End User.

That should Reset the Scratch Frame.

And also....

I recommend you dont use more than 500 pictures (whether they are 10 pixels to 1000 pixels)

Well it was sort a like that, but no user input did anything. Except alt F4.

It also wasn't just a white background, it had a pink window, and in the window it had 3 options, which I accidentally closed. Which coursed this how scenario.

Thankfully now after 5 hours of catch up though out the night, I have caught up on my work, and avoided the some of the extra work I did before.

Plus I delete at least of 4 the 8 songs it had on their. They are just scenic stuff, and one 8 second track for transitions.

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#13 2010-10-26 23:26:29

aksthomsen
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt134/Angus_T/Untitled-1.png

I now have this problem. It just won't save, no matter what I do.

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#14 2010-10-26 23:33:42

cheddargirl
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Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

aksthomsen wrote:

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt134/Angus_T/Untitled-1.png

I now have this problem. It just won't save, no matter what I do.

Sounds like this problem here. Is there enough save space on your hard drive to save the project?


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#15 2010-10-26 23:39:31

aksthomsen
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Registered: 2010-10-19
Posts: 9

Re: URGENT: Accidentally closed a window and my scratch is frozen!!

cheddargirl wrote:

aksthomsen wrote:

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt134/Angus_T/Untitled-1.png

I now have this problem. It just won't save, no matter what I do.

Sounds like this problem here. Is there enough save space on your hard drive to save the project?

I've got about 25.7GB left on my hard drive.

But then I got to the bottom of the thred and remembered I as using a USB  tongue  (faceplam)

Thanks  smile

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