How is it that…

Posted October 24, 2006
Filed under: GIS |

When I click on links in the ArcGIS desktop help system it crashes ArcMap or ArcCatalog. What kind of messed up dependency is going on here that reading help can crash the software. I am sure this is some IE, COM, mumbo jumbo spec blah blah blah - but all I know is it makes my day that much grumpier. There you have it.

4 Comments so far

  1. GeoMullah on October 24, 2006

    eJihad on ArcMap!

    It’s been kickin’ my ass too lately. WTF?

  2. thesteve0 on October 24, 2006

    No fair no fair - a ton of highly inappropriate jokes come to mind but given my civil nature I must resist.

    I know - 9.2 will fix it all…or is that 9.3?

    Let’s find a conference that we can both attend soon so we can drown our sorrows in some ethanol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol

    of course that wikipedia reference is soley for the sake of tweaking James…

  3. sudha on October 28, 2006

    have u tried using the ESRI discussion forum - (most questions are answered in a day or two)? is this an acknowledged known issue? I do know that the links within help that used to go nowhere have been fixed in 9.2., am not familiar with the crashing issue, though.

  4. thesteve0 on October 31, 2006

    Sudha:
    The forums are specificially for user to user communication and so I don’t think I should be writing about a bug in the software on user forums. That is ESRI’s job they should be telling me about bugs. This is not a broken link issue - this is an issue that clicking on a link crashes the software.

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