Solid Tools Quit Working After Several Usages

Product: ToasterPaint 4.1

Platforms: 2000 3000 3000T 4000 4000T

Problem: When using Solid Rectangle, Circle, or Polygon tools a number of times, they eventually quit working. When you attempt to draw a filled object, or cut out a brush, nothing happens.

This is a known bug in ToasterPaint, which is fixed in the 4.2 update. The 4.1 and earlier version routines for cleaning up Chip RAM after RAM-intensive graphics operations were not robust enough for the new graphics routines introduced in 3.9. Chip RAM becomes fragmented, and solid tools begin to fail. Usually you can just save the work, go to the Switcher screen, unload ToasterPaint (use the shift-key /left mouse combination to select ToasterPaint from the Programs menu popup), then reload ToasterPaint, and reload the image. In rare instances, you may need to quit the Toaster or Flyer software, and even reboot the system. The user should obtain the 4.2 update.

You should also be sure that no other Amiga graphics programs are running when you run ToasterPaint, so that the maximum amount of Chip RAM is available for ToasterPaint. This includes unloading other Toaster applications, such as the CG and LightWave.