Marking Sims causes slide show to freeze.

• by Damon22

  Every time recently that I mark a Sim, the slide show freezes and Finished Marking doesn't respond. Have to logout and login to move on,.

  Posted July 5, 2013 6:48 AM

• by biggsjrex

  I am having the same problem. I see very few sims any more, but when one shows up, marking the sim causes the slide show to freeze.

  Posted July 10, 2013 4:01 PM

• by anupreeta scientist, admin

  Thanks for reporting the problem. Please collect the images in Talk and post their IDs here. This might speed up the debugging process. Thanks.

  Posted July 10, 2013 11:24 PM

• by akapadia

  @Damon22 and @biggsjrex, can you please offer more information. Much of the website relies on a modern browser. If running on an older computer, slower performance would be expected.

  Posted July 11, 2013 6:32 AM

• by biggsjrex

  I am using an older mac (iBook G4) and Safari 5.0.6 to access the Spacewarps website. I had no problems with the Sims until a few weeks ago. As I said in my first post, at some point I began to see fewer Sims (less than one per hundred slides), and when a Sim appeared, the slide show froze when I marked the Sim and clicked "Finished marking". If I leave the Sim unmarked and click next, the slide show still freezes.

  Posted July 11, 2013 4:14 PM

• by biggsjrex

  Image ASW0000004 contained a Sim which caused the above mentioned problem - the Slide Show to froze up when it appeared.

  Posted July 11, 2013 9:01 PM

• by biggsjrex

  Another image with a SIm which causes the Slide Show to freeze up - ASW000000d

  Posted July 11, 2013 9:48 PM

• by lamperti

  Here is one image with a sim that froze on me: Image ASW000000e

  Using Firefox.

  Rather than logout/login, I just hit Refresh. I loose the count though

  Posted July 11, 2013 11:26 PM

• by Damon22

  @akapadia I use Chrome - Windows 7

  Posted July 12, 2013 6:29 AM

• by Damon22

  Image ASW0000003 is one culprit

  Posted July 12, 2013 6:34 AM

• by lamperti

  Image ASW0000009 is another

  Posted July 12, 2013 11:07 PM

• by biggsjrex

  Found another Sim that causes the program to freeze - ASW0000007

  Posted July 15, 2013 6:38 PM

• by akapadia

  @biggsjrex Can you open the javascript console? If so, do you see any errors? Perhaps it has a funny messages about a tainted canvas.

  Posted July 15, 2013 7:26 PM

• by Damon22

  ASW0000006 is another freezer

  Posted July 16, 2013 3:05 AM

• by anupreeta scientist, admin

  Whenever there's a sim, there's a mask layer on it which automatically generates the feedback message depending on your marker location. This mask checking requires newer machines + browser and probably, frame freezing occurs if you are using an older machine+older browser. @akapadia is going to try and reproduce this problem with some older machines, when possible.

  Posted July 16, 2013 7:32 AM

• by mitch

  Image ASW0000003 is another

  Posted July 25, 2013 6:28 PM

• by Capella05 moderator

  Image ASW0000008 is another - they seem to be all the sims that were not originally marked as one.

  I am also seeing a pattern in the id numbers...

  Posted July 25, 2013 9:24 PM

• by mitch

  Image ASW000000c is another

  Posted July 25, 2013 11:23 PM

• by anupreeta scientist, admin

  This problem is going to be fixed soon. Thanks so much for reporting the ASW IDs!!!
  Please continue reporting as before, if you do experience this again after 1-2 days.

  Posted July 30, 2013 11:20 PM