Rendering fails!

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if I open topdraw and select "Try it" I see the Circle glow up.
and than noting.

If I edit the backgrounds and select "Try it" agean
thebackgrounds go back to my default ones.

I did redownload it and removed all in the library folder.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1,0 and Mac OS 10.5.5

Original issue reported on code.google.com by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 9:38

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My apologies.  I have seen this and I've been unable to reproduce it.  The 
solution is a couple of steps:
1. Quit the viewer
2. Open your System Preferences > Desktop and Screen Saver
3. Choose a new screen image
4. Close the System Preferences and re-launch the Viewer and try again

If that doesn't work, after step #1, delete the file: 
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Desktop.plist and 
continue with step #2.

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 9:53

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Still nothing...
It switch back to the first ones I choose after removing 
com.apple.desktop.plist.

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 10:03

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Oh.  That's surprising.  I've had good luck with having it work on other 
machines after doing those steps.  Could 
you take a look at log of the Console.app and see if there are any "Top Draw" 
related messages?

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 10:22

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There is no log about Top Draw in the Console :(

Hope you something els I can try.

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:11

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I'm sorry, I really don't know what's happening.  It should display some error 
message if it was unable to render 
or install the image.  You might try playing with the editor.  Just double 
click on Top Draw and choose "Editor".  It 
should open a new "Untitled" window and a preview window with a rendering in 
it.  If you get something that's a 
colorful gradient, choose "Install onto Desktop" from the "Drawing" menu.

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:18

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If I open a script, I see it render (sec. in the button of the window)

but the preview stays gray.

Maybe I need to install/update something ????

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:24

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Ah.  That is interesting.  So, the renderer (TopDrawRenderer) should be 
installed in ~/Library/Application 
Support/Google/TopDraw/Renderer.  If you don't have one, you might consider 
removing the 
~/Library/Application Support/Google/TopDraw directory after you quit the 
program.  Then, just launch the app, 
and try the editor.  It should create the image.  Otherwise, there might be a 
problem writing the image file out to 
the temporary directory (perhaps your disk is full?).

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:29

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Log from editor:

Rendered: Untitled (2224 ms, seed: 720302384)
Rendered: WavyGlow.tds (3859 ms, seed: 4200124933)
Rendered: WavyGlow.tds (3789 ms, seed: 981384159)
Rendered: GridCorners.tds (2254 ms, seed: 3262642681)
Rendered: Plasma+Rects.tds (2412 ms, seed: 2388866717)
Rendered: WavyGlow.tds (3626 ms, seed: 3567286021)
Rendered: WavyGlow.tds (3815 ms, seed: 1158723339)

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:30

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And when you show the preview window, it's still gray?  The logging from the 
editor looks like those are taking a 
pretty long time to render.  Can you describe your hardware and display(s)?

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:37

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I removed both the google folder and the two com.google... preference files.

Still the same...

After render a view times there is only one file in the Renderer folder 
(TopDrawRenderer (408,6 Kb))

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:38

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I am running a iMac 24"
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
with 4 GB of ram.

Open programs:
Safari, Pirillo stream and Mail

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:41

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also system drive has 300GB + free
and I use a extra 21" screen

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2008 at 11:52

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I'm very sorry, but I really can't think of anything else.  If you're 
comfortable with Xcode, I'd suggest checking out 
the source and stepping through the execution to see where it's failing.  
Otherwise, I'm all out of ideas.  If you 
have access to another machine, you might try it out there.

Original comment by waylo...@google.com on 3 Oct 2008 at 12:02

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Oke,
I will ask a friend tomorrow to try it on his mac book.

Thanks for now !!

Original comment by firefigh...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2008 at 12:05