Newbe: Can't get GraphicConverter to save my image

[kai]

@Peter Bunn

@kai

Hi Peter - fancy bumping in to you in this neck of the woods!

(Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!)

Since it’s plenty dark in these woods, I might as well take another shot. I ain’t likely to hit nuthin’, am I?

Never know till you pull the trigger…

@mreuring

The screensaver kicked in, delaying the loading beyond the 20 second timeframe and blammer, timeout killed the script.

If the script really timed out and threw an error to that effect, try bracketing the offending handler so:

with timeout of 360 seconds  -- whatever sufficient for the job...

-- problem handler stuff here

end timeout

The timeout does not add a delay… only helps ensure the script can finish its work.

Quite. I usually go for something like an OTT timeout of 1000000 seconds (just over a week and a half). What the hell - if a job looks like it’s really going to take that long, there’s always the option of cancelling manually…

In this case, though, I believe Martin was referring to the fixed delay he’d inserted - which should have been long enough to allow GC to open a file but, unfortunately this time, wasn’t.

That’s really the issue we’ve been trying to resolve here. If we extend the delay, the opening of every file is delayed further. If we trim it too much, we run the risk of GC returning an error (when it tries to operate on a window that doesn’t yet exist). Ideally, we want a way of pausing the script for only as long as takes to open a particular file.

The difficulty is that every idea we’ve tried to date works for me - but not for Martin (possibly because he’s dealing with larger files than I have). I’m currently trying to grab a sample of the same file type so that I can test some ideas in a way that resembles Martin’s circumstances more closely.

I’ll go quietly now.

Nice chatting, Peter. Catch ya later.