Hi Bruce, This is very reminiscent of problems I and my students have been having, but I have not had time to try to track down the reproducibility and behavior, and figured sending you a message "Artemis crashes a lot" was not terribly helpful. Based on your preliminary diagnosis, I do, however, have a thought. Are control characters non-Ascii for this purpose? Because I probably have "ctrl-s" scattered all over the place. That happens because within the journal ctrl-s does not save, but rather tries to enter that character into the journal, leading to a little box. Likewise, I used to get that behavior when I was in certain places on the GDS screen, although I can't seem to get that to happen now--maybe the new version fixed that somehow? But the journal does still have that behavior. I'm using Windows XP and Artemis 0.7.003. --Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College
The information you sent me suggests a problem in trying to handle text that uses non-ascii characters. Unfortunately the trap file artemis generated does not give me enough information to make a good guess as to the problem, but I have a guess.
Are you using non-ascii characters (which is almost, but not quite, the same thing as characters that are not found on a normal english keyboard) in any of your data files, your feff or atoms input files, in any of your parameters, in the project journal, or on the properties page? This is the kind of thing that would happen if a non-native english speaker wanted to use text in his or her own language in one of the places I asked about. If the text you use does not have an ascii representation and requires use of unicode, that might make trouble for Artemis.
It is surely a reasonable thing to want to make notes in a data file header or artemis' journal using one's own language. Indeed, that is so important that I should make sure that Artemis allows that.
Of course, that might not be the problem at all.
Has anyone else seen this problem?