Unable to show background and BLine at the same time

General Synfig general discussion
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Dear Synfig buddies,

I looked in the FAQs and could not find this issue.

Can you help me. I get this error when I start Synfig:

synfig studio – starting up application…
(synfigstudio.exe:3796): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string
(synfigstudio.exe:3796): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string
(synfigstudio.exe:3796): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string
(synfigstudio.exe:3796): Gtk-WARNING **: Invalid input string

Then I can enter a background using the Gradient tool. I can then make a BLine. As soon as I finish it (Loop BLine) my background vanishes. If I move up the background then I can no longer see my BLine.

If I missed the FAQ please point me to it and I will be glad to read it.

Thanks for any help.

Best regards,
Dam012752@aol.com

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Hi DanLockhart,
it seems that for some reason your default blend method is set to STRAIGHT. Loot to the toobox and select from the drop down menu a blend method to COMPOSITE. Then you can see both at the same time.

Regarding to the console messages it looks to me to a something related with not suported characters in the path of synfig or any of its components. This problem reading the some file can cause the defualt blend method to STRAIGHT.

-G

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I’ve seen those error messages when the recently used files had a filename with a non-ascii character.

Chris

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As for the errors: I get them 10 to 20 times every time I open up Synfig. I don’t know why, though, because everything works fine. As for the thing pixelgeek mentions: I always get them, even if I haven’t used any non-ASCII characters.

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Which version of Windows is this on? Windows 95/98/ME?