Topic: Vedit Manuals in help menu (1 of 3), Read 16 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Scott Lambert
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:44 AM


I am using version 6.20.2.

When I choose to open either of the Vedit Manuals from the help menu, things work fine.

Except....

If I select the box in the message about Adobe PDF "Do not show this message again", I get the error "Cannot close file locked by other program".

Just FYI.

Scott

 

Topic: Vedit Manuals in help menu (2 of 3), Read 20 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Peter Rejto
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 09:52 PM

On 6/22/2011 10:44:18 AM, Scott Lambert wrote:
>
>I am using version 6.20.2.
>
>When I choose to open either
>of the Vedit Manuals from the
>help menu, things work fine.
>
>Except....
>
>If I select the box in the
>message about Adobe PDF "Do
>not show this message again",
>I get the error "Cannot close
>file locked by other program".
>
>Just FYI.

Scott,

Occasionally, I also get the error message,

"Cannot close
file locked by other program".


So, thanks for recording the issue.

-peter

 

Topic: Vedit Manuals in help menu (3 of 3), Read 28 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Pauli Lindgren
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:53 AM

On 6/22/2011 10:44:18 AM, Scott Lambert wrote:
>
>I am using version 6.20.2.
>
>When I choose to open either
>of the Vedit Manuals from the
>help menu, things work fine.
>
>Except....
>
>If I select the box in the
>message about Adobe PDF "Do
>not show this message again",
>I get the error "Cannot close
>file locked by other program".

I do not have that problem on XP.
Maybe you do not have write access to Vedit macro directory?

I think it would be best to change veditpdf.vdm so that it would store the option in some .ini file instead of modifying the macro code. The .ini file would be in USER_CFG directory where the user always has write access.

I have always disliked the idea of a macro modifying it's code. It is dangerous operation. And, if nothing else, it changes the file date so that it is difficult to know which version of a macro is the latest one.

By the way, wouldn't it be logical to put the PDF files in help directory instead of home directory?

--
Pauli