FLASH - CUSTOM STYLE NAMES MUST BE 30 CHARACTERS or LESS
When saving a custom Style by clicking the Save button, if you assign a name longer than 30 characters in the Variant box, Impressionist will complete the request (no error message), but will create a "blank" entry in the category menu.
If you subsequently try to choose this "blank" Style from the Category menu, you will get this error message: " Bad data prevented completion of this operation."
Bottom line: Assign custom names no longer than 30 characters and you'll be okay.
The discussion that follows describe two ways to fix this problem.
~Danny~
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I found today that one of my setting was blank, and Imp. came up with a 'corrupt data' error. since I couldn't select it, I couldn't delete it.
It may have been my fault - I gave it a 5 word name, about 25 characters long.
Anyway, after much trial and error I found how to remove it. open the set file in a hex editor (has to be hex editor, as text editors don't save hex files properly). Search for the bad name (find it by trial and error, remembering what's yours and what's Imp.'s). Select from TWO character before the style ttle name up until TWO characters before the next style title. Delete and save (hope you have a backup).
EG: Bad name Chalk & Salmon background, in Chalk sections
Select xxchalk up to just before xx<next name>
I know this is a silly post, but it's here if someone needs to fix their set file without losing all the set's they've made - that'd be a catastrophe (cat ass trophy?)
When saving a custom Style by clicking the Save button, if you assign a name longer than 30 characters in the Variant box, Impressionist will complete the request (no error message), but will create a "blank" entry in the category menu.
If you subsequently try to choose this "blank" Style from the Category menu, you will get this error message: " Bad data prevented completion of this operation."
Bottom line: Assign custom names no longer than 30 characters and you'll be okay.
The discussion that follows describe two ways to fix this problem.
~Danny~
= = = = = = = = = = =
I found today that one of my setting was blank, and Imp. came up with a 'corrupt data' error. since I couldn't select it, I couldn't delete it.
It may have been my fault - I gave it a 5 word name, about 25 characters long.
Anyway, after much trial and error I found how to remove it. open the set file in a hex editor (has to be hex editor, as text editors don't save hex files properly). Search for the bad name (find it by trial and error, remembering what's yours and what's Imp.'s). Select from TWO character before the style ttle name up until TWO characters before the next style title. Delete and save (hope you have a backup).
EG: Bad name Chalk & Salmon background, in Chalk sections
Select xxchalk up to just before xx<next name>
I know this is a silly post, but it's here if someone needs to fix their set file without losing all the set's they've made - that'd be a catastrophe (cat ass trophy?)
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