Heli-x stuck when QUIT

[nicolas]

Hello,
I've jus baught a Lama v3 and I've been told about your program.
I've downloaded it, and it's working fine with my Esky remote.
The only doubt I have before buying, is that Heli-x gets stuck when quiting it, there is no way of turning the program OFF except using the "force quit" option of OS X.
And then when I relaunch Heli-x, all of the menus have gone except the menu Heli-x -> About Heli-x
¿Is that normal?
And another question, ¿Is there any model of my Lama v3?
I use MBP, OS X 10.5.7.
Thanks.

[Joerg]

Hi nicolas,

no that's not normal. Could you check if there's any information in the Console Log (Apps->Utilities)? Normally, the shareware version tries to display the order information again and shut down after that. Maybe that window does not display properly - have you tried waiting for, say, 30 seconds if the sim quits after that?

[nicolas]

Thanks for your quick answer.
When I want to quit the sim, I get a confirmation window "Do you really want to quit" or something like that, and when I press OK it just gets stuck.
I have tried to wait 30s. or so, seems like the app relaunch but appears with a black screen.

This is the log when I quit the sim:

27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at $Proxy0.handleQuit(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at com.apple.eawt.Application$6.run(Application.java:460)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:633)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at a.a.a.n.o.invoke(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] ... 10 more
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] Caused by: org.jdom.IllegalDataException: The data "PPM" is not legal for a JDOM character content: 0x1a is not a legal XML character.
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at org.jdom.Text.setText(Text.java:188)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at org.jdom.Text.<init>(Text.java:99)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at org.jdom.Element.setText(Element.java:630)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at a.a.a.m.m.b(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at a.a.a.n.g.t(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at a.a.a.n.g.c(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] at a.a.a.n.g.aaa(Unknown Source)
27/06/09 2:05:26 [0x0-0x78078].net.heli-x.heli-x[891] ... 15 more

Thanks.

[Michael]

Hi,

did you get at the beginning of the program a window to choose the controller which should be used?

Michael

[nicolas]

Hello,
Yes, it has the window to choose between the controllers.
I choose PPM which is the one I have.

[Michael]

... and you activated the check box "Use as default controller, when connected", I guess?

Michael

[nicolas]

Yes, I think I did.

[Michael]

Ok, then:

1. If you delete the file files/Application/ApplicationSettings.xml and you never check this checkbox, then HELI-X should terminate in the correct way.
2. I think I fixed this problem. If you want, send me an email and you can test if it does work now.

Michael

[nicolas]

It worked just fine,
I coul use the sim, and it quited just fine.
But now when I relaunch the program all of the menus have gone except the Heli-x -> About Heli-x....

To have the menus to come back again, I "QUIT" the sim, "CANCEL" the confirmation screen, and all the menus are back again.
I can then use it, and quits just fine.

[Michael]

Strange, at the momnet I have no idea, where the menu has gone. Is there any rul ebehind? Is it at every start?

Michael