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Skritter crashes on certain character components

Nagissa   April 4th, 2012 9:22a.m.

I use Skritter on my Android phone, and for a few weeks now, the program crashes whenever certain character components turn up (女 is the most common offender). This does not happen on the computer. Usually, Skritter with crash as soon as I write the component, but sometimes one of the strokes in the component will not render on screen, while the program treats it as if it were entered correctly. Sometimes, I will even get as far as completing the entire character (with the component missing), before it crashes again.

nick   April 5th, 2012 9:11a.m.

Hmm, I'm not sure what would be causing this. Can you make me a list of several characters where you're seeing this crash? That might help narrow down what's causing it.

And when it crashes, does it always crash on the same characters, or does it sometimes complete one character okay, but sometimes crash on that same character?

One other thing to try is totally clearing your cache, in case one some of the stroke data has been corrupted in the download.

nagissa   April 5th, 2012 9:48a.m.

Yesterday it kept crashing on 历, 民, 忽, 姑娘 and 劳. It always crashed on the same characters. Whatever it was, though, clearing the cache has done the trick.

nick   April 5th, 2012 1:31p.m.

Looking at that, I think it was some corrupt stroke or recognizer data, since there isn't anything else common about those characters (like multiple stroke orders). Sorry about the problem, although glad to hear that the cache clear did it!

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