http://support.westciv.com/ Support Forum Topic: NilObjectExecption was not handled ??? en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:16:41 +0000 http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1737 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:53:30 +0000 davebarnes 1737@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Me too.<br /> Nuked preferences and all is well. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1694 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:53:55 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1694@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi DreamTiger,</p> <p>I think that the next beta has this fixed - also, we've implemented error handling in such a way as such things will generate a report, and let you send it to us, then keep using the application, without having to quit</p> <p>j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1692 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:43:02 +0000 dreamtiger 1692@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Got the nilobjectexception error on both my machines again following the 10.5.6 update. In each case, tossing the prefs fixed it. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1677 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:29:11 +0000 mbalmain 1677@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I had one more jitter when bouncing from the old 4.x version of SM to the new beta. Tossed the prefs file away again and so far the new beta as been rock solid...</p> <p>Glad to have helped!</p> <p>Max </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1676 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:24:55 +0000 dreamtiger 1676@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>John,</p> <p>I moved the preferences file to my desktop and launched SM5b3. NilOjectException error is gone! Not only that, the keyboard/mouse crazziness is not happening, and even XRAY is making more sense. Something about that old pref file was causing a lot of jittery, scrambly stuff. I am going to send it to you in case it helps. Things are looking up.</p> <p>Gary </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1675 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:14:55 +0000 dreamtiger 1675@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Happy to hear the good news! Guess you don't need my preference file any more? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1672 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:41:47 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1672@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Thanks to Max sending the preferences file along, I've been able to fix the bug for the next beta version.</p> <p>If you are having a NilObjectException Error, try throwing out the preferences and restarting.</p> <p>And, we've solved the problem with the undo being haywire as well!<br /> john </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1671 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:35:43 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1671@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi Max,</p> <p>just as an attachment to <a href="mailto:john@westciv.com">john@westciv.com</a> will be fine</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>john</p> <p>(put "style master" in there somewhere for my spam filters to catch it!)<br /> j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1670 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:32:10 +0000 mbalmain 1670@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Yes I do. How do I send it to you?</p> <p>Max </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1669 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:37:28 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1669@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>thanks max,</p> <p>do you by any chance have the prefs file in the trash or elsewhere?</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1668 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:04:18 +0000 mbalmain 1668@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>John,</p> <p>I just tried dumping the preference file like you suggest. I then launched the new beta and no error! Don't have time to test the application but it starts and opens CSS files without the stupid NilObjectException which is nice.</p> <p>I will report back if I find out anything more...</p> <p>Max </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1667 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:44:25 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1667@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Dreamtiger,</p> <p>I' believe I've now fixed the property pane problem</p> <p>I'll have to look into the preview pane problem, as this is the first report like this and i've not see it here internally as well.</p> <p>XRAY is I suppose a matter of taste - a lot of people love the new version - and has rave reviews for the online version. For future versions, we'll definitely look into making "just show the element" as an option.</p> <p>Not at all sure about the keyboard and mouse craziness - can you describe this in any detail?</p> <p>See the previous post re preferences, and the app not launching</p> <p>thanks again</p> <p>john </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1666 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:41:35 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1666@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Dreamtiger,</p> <p>try deleting the preferences - actually - can you rename them, restart Style Master, and if that then works, send me a copy of the preferences?</p> <p>The file is called Style Master 5 Preferences and is in the following location</p> <p>current user/Library/Preferences</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>john </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1665 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:25:15 +0000 dreamtiger 1665@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>John,</p> <p>About the Property Panel and the Preview refresh, I don't use Command Tab, and the Property Panel disappears while in Style Master. To get it back, I have to use the toolbar icon at right, and it won't come back unless I select a different property. The Preview starts out refreshing by itself when changes are made, but stops, and has to be manually refreshed with the button. After a while, the button stops working, and no refresh is available.</p> <p>Xray is a good idea, but implementation is overwhelming the visual appearance of the feedback pane, filling it with blocks and areas of jarring colors that obscure the design. I recommend taking a minimalist approach to xray. </p> <p>Before the nilObject craziness, the app was literally going nuts with keyboard &#38; mouse input - doing completely unpredictable stuff. I will soon try to use it on my Macbook Pro and see if things are different than on my Mac Pro, where I have been having these problems. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1664 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:18:01 +0000 dreamtiger 1664@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Confirmed. I am now unable to launch SM5 b3. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1663 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:49:58 +0000 mbalmain 1663@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I have yet to get the SM5 b3 to launch without the error. But I was running the b1 copy for quite a while before the error occurred.</p> <p>This is a bummer as I was really, really liking SM5! It looks like it will be a major step forward from version 4. I have been a loyal SM customer for quite a while now and have high hopes that this issue will be resolved in due time...</p> <p>Max </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1662 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:30:44 +0000 dreamtiger 1662@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Just got the "NilObjectException was not handled: Program must shut down..." error again. SM5 b3 was really bugging out. It was starting to produce random &#38; unexpected result from keyboard &#38; mouse input. After a while it became impossible to use. I decided to restart my Mac &#38; reopen Style Master. The nilObject error appeared at launch, &#38; I was unable to launch. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1661 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:43:08 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1661@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>DreamTiger,</p> <p>2 more bugs I am seeing all the time:</p> <p>1. The floating Property Panel disappears, and requires fiddling to bring it back.</p> <p>this is most likely when you command tab to Style Master from another app - the way the system notifies Style Master of this event has changed, and we are working to fix this</p> <p>2. The Preview Pane fails to refresh after a while. Refresh just stops working.</p> <p>Is this when you change something in your style sheet? What happens if you hit the refresh button?</p> <p>I am frustrated because there is nothing else like Style Master, but Style Master seems to be having a hard time making it into the Leopard era. It drives me nuts every time I use it, because there are just too many errors. I don't want to be a complainer. I am a big fan of Style Master, but it has been hard to use since I moved to Leopard.</p> <p>We have definitely taken too long to get completely up to speed for the latest version of the OS. We've also done a massive overhaul of the app - new preview engine, new code engine, complete rewrite of XRAY, and a tonne of new features. But we are definitely closing in on finalizing the app. We test it constantly internally too, and fix anything that comes up here - so external reports like these are really important and greatly appreciated.</p> <p>BTW, something did just totally break undo for this beta release - working on that as we speak</p> <p>thanks<br /> j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1660 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:37:45 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1660@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>DreamTiger,</p> <p>About visual feedback: I am referring to the way selected statements highlight in the code, and in the preview pane. And vice versa - selected areas in the preview pane highlighting in the statements &#38; code, &#38; so forth. I can see it basically works, but sometimes it doesn't. It is also complicated by the method you are using to highlight areas in the preview pane. Lots of colors jumping around, and things changing dramatically. In between this, and the times it just stops working, it's somewhat dizzying.</p> <p>I've not got other reports of this sort of thing - in terms of it stopping and starting. You can turn it off, if that makes life easier too.</p> <p> I wish you could make the visual feedback more low key and understated. I mentioned before that I prefer the old 1 px colored outlines to the new blocks and fields of color. Can't see my design through all that.</p> <p>The idea behind XRAY is to show the boxmodel - margin, padding and border - it can also be turned off.</p> <p>And, it's actually hackable too - inside the Help_Files/Preview folder there's a file called xray.js - you can edit this to change how XRAY works (make a backup copy first ;-)</p> <p>I'm hoping for later editions to make that process a lot simpler too.</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1659 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:33:38 +0000 dreamtiger 1659@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>My system might be wonky. I am having unexplained problems with Photoshop, too. I dread the inevitable reinstall, because it takes a couple of days to build my system. Oh well, what better time than December, in the Northern Hemishpere at least, when the work has thinned out anyway. I will report back about Style Master's performance on the new system. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1658 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:23:40 +0000 mbalmain 1658@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I was quite impressed with new version until the NilObjectException error </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1657 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:37:14 +0000 dreamtiger 1657@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>John,</p> <p>About visual feedback: I am referring to the way selected statements highlight in the code, and in the preview pane. And vice versa - selected areas in the preview pane highlighting in the statements &#38; code, &#38; so forth. I can see it basically works, but sometimes it doesn't. It is also complicated by the method you are using to highlight areas in the preview pane. Lots of colors jumping around, and things changing dramatically. In between this, and the times it just stops working, it's somewhat dizzying. I wish you could make the visual feedback more low key and understated. I mentioned before that I prefer the old 1 px colored outlines to the new blocks and fields of color. Can't see my design through all that.</p> <p>2 more bugs I am seeing all the time: </p> <p>1. The floating Property Panel disappears, and requires fiddling to bring it back.</p> <p>2. The Preview Pane fails to refresh after a while. Refresh just stops working.</p> <p>I am frustrated because there is nothing else like Style Master, but Style Master seems to be having a hard time making it into the Leopard era. It drives me nuts every time I use it, because there are just too many errors. I don't want to be a complainer. I am a big fan of Style Master, but it has been hard to use since I moved to Leopard.</p> <p>Again: Undo ( Command+Z )doesn't work in the new version. Are others seeing these bugs, or is my system just wonky? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1656 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:39:56 +0000 shrike 1656@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Same problem here, new install did not help. Getting NilObjectException error. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1655 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:58:05 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1655@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>what do yu mean by "visual feedback is very jumpy, erratic and confusing"</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1654 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:53:35 +0000 dreamtiger 1654@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I've been using SM 5 b3 for a couple of days. I got that error today, too, but I was able to relaunch successfully. I have been noticing a couple of other bugs, too: Undo (Command+Z) never works, and the visual feedback is very jumpy, erratic and confusing. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1653 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:08:27 +0000 mbalmain 1653@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I had been using the beta for sometime and all was well. I was running MAMP when I got the error message. Every time I start the beta I get this message, even with a computer restart (I am using the latest Mac Pro). I dumped that beta and downloaded the new version 3 beta. Still get the error.</p> <p>My old copy of SM4.6 works though, but after using version 5 going back to 4.6 seems, well, so...</p> <p>Max </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1652 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:45:49 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1652@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>When does this occur?</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>john </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1651 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:31:36 +0000 guyleech 1651@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>There's no really known way to fix up this error, it's just something that crops up from time to time. The best bet would be to uninstall StyleMaster entirely, then re-install, see if that fixes the issue.</p> <p>If it doesn't work get back to me, and I'll try and think of something else that might help. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1650 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:15:31 +0000 mbalmain 1650@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>OK, I downloaded the new OS X SM 5 version 3 beta and same thing: this error will shutdown the program at launch...</p> <p>I noticed an old thread on the same topic with no real answer. Something to do with the underlying Realbasic platform? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/nilobjectexecption-was-not-handled#post-1649 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:43:04 +0000 mbalmain 1649@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>My copy of Version 5 beta 1 was chugging along nicely but all of a sudden I am getting this message when I launch the program: "NilObjectException was not handled: Program must shut down..."</p> <p>I will try the beta 3.</p> <p>Any ideas?</p> <p>Max </p>