[APBeta] a3 - lost in space

[Paul Rodman]

On Jun 1, 2008, at 19:35 , Mark Huss wrote:

> > If that's not happening, then something weird is going on.
>
> I'm pretty sure I ran a2 at least once. The splash screen is there  
> and gone so fast, I can't ever read it.
>
> As an experiment, I started a second instance and I got the  
> 'multiple instances not allowed' dialog.  I dismissed that, then the  
> first dialog you sent of picture of above popped up. I selected  
> 'create new' and then the app opened, but an error message appeared:
> "An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled. The  
> application must shut down." Two of these popped up one after the  
> other (both still visible).
>
> I don't know if this unhandled exception is just an artifact of  
> running two instances, or if it has anything to do with the original  
> problem.
>
> Note that the original instance remains catatonic through all of  
> this, it's the second instance (based on monitoring task manager)  
> that's popping up the screens and boxes.

I don't know what's going on here. Are any error log files appearing  
on your desktop?

You can try the "hold down Shift" trick to reset preferences and see  
if that resolves the issue.

Might it be your security software getting in on the act?

What are you running? WinXP sp2?

Paul R.