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# Re: [femm] Re: savebitmap error

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- Subject: Re: [femm] Re: savebitmap error
- From: Keith Gregory <k.gregory@lboro.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:03:22 +0000
- In-reply-to: <b4jds4+rtk7@eGroups.com>
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`Gary,`
`Just a suggestion, but try saving the image as a metafile. If that works you can convert it to a bitmap for animation afterwards. It might work well enough to at least do what you want.`
`Keith.`
`At 01:24 11/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:`

>     --- In femm@yahoogroups.com, David Meeker <dmeeker@i...> wrote:
>     > bergy50us wrote:
>     >
>     > > Like a message thread from last year, I'm getting errors trying to use
>     > > savebitmap. I'm using it in the post-processor. I'm trying to
>     > > automate the generation of a number of bitmaps, so I'm running LUA as
>     > > both a pre- and a post- processor. I've not tried saving in the
>     > > preprocessor.
>     > >
>     > > The commands I entered in the postprocessor were:
>     > >
>     > > showdensityplot(0,0,2,0,"mag")
>     > > savebitmap("movie0.bmp")
>     > >
>     > > which then gave me a pop-up window saying:
>     > >
>     > > ! Critical error on getting bmp info, possible page fault ahoy
>     > >
>     > > Anyone know what this means, or how to fix it?
>     > >
>     > > Gary
>     > >
>     > This is sort of a "known problem" that I still haven't gotten around to
>     > figuring out yet. This only appears on some installations. I get this
>     > error when I try to do hte savebitmap Lua command on the my old win98
>     > machine, but I don't get in on my other machines that run XP.
>     >
>     > Dave.
>     >

>     I've tried a '95 system and a '98 system, both with the same response.
>     I've tried turning off all accelerations, but to no avail. The
>     source for LUA includes this identical error message at least 5 or 6
>     times, so I can't narrow it down, and I don't have the capability to
>     recompile.
>     I'll keep watching to see if it changes, since I'l love to make movies
>     of the varying fields of my solenoid. I doubt, though, that I'll
>     "upgrade" my OS to get around this.

> `Gary`
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