I’m running into the same issue on windows vista and ubuntu 8.4:
Everything is going well, then the windows go dark and stop responding while editing a Bline. It says “rendering” at the bottom of the “drawing” (I don’t know the real name) window.
The windows stay dark / tinted / greyscale forever (well I only waited about 20 minutes.)
It can’t really be doing any rendering that takes that long can it. It’s a simple drawing on a fast computer with lots of RAM.
MORE INFORMATION:
I ran synfigstudio in the console. It says:
synfig(5650): info: PID=5821 has been cleaned up
synfig(5650): info: PID=5841 has been cleaned up
synfig(5650): info: STATE NORMAL: Received Refresh Ducks
a tangent got changed - #1
current values are: t1(0.00, 0) t2(0.00, 0.00)
copying change to tangent 2
a tangent got changed - #2
current values are: t1(0.00, 0) t2(0.00, 0.00)
synfig(5650): info: STATE NORMAL: Received Refresh Ducks
a tangent got changed - #1
current values are: t1(0.07, 0) t2(0.07, 0.06)
copying change to tangent 2
a tangent got changed - #2
current values are: t1(0.07, 0) t2(0.07, 0.06)
synfig(5650): info: STATE NORMAL: Received Refresh Ducks
EDIT: I’ve seen you have a very old version. We have released version 0.61.09 and cannot solve bugs to earlier versions if they are already solved. So find a recipe is good if the bug still there in current release.
0.61.09 it the latest and more stable on any linux version.
If plan to use ubuntu 8.10 please read the sticky post at the beginning of “Building Synfig” forum.