Book Designer Empty Window

Timoleon · 03-25-2008, 09:45 PM

Here's a maddening problem that has just cropped up

After running Book Designer successfully for the last couple of weeks, I fired it up again this morning only to run into an empty window and a title bar that said:
...loading Book Designer... or
...loading Last File... and just stay that way.

All the icons and menu commands *seemed* to work --- in that they were not frozen --- but no matter what I would do, the blank text window would just stay blank. The odd thing is that I went to my LastFile directory and it had in it the html file that I had tried to open, as if Book Designer had worked on the file but did not show anything on the screen. The program exited gracefully as well --- as if nothing had choked. But it's like it never fully loaded in the first place.

I've tried various fixes to no avail: uninstalling & reinstalling, removing all instances of Book Designer by hand in the registry, running CrapCleaner and Advanced Windows Care to clean up stray remnants of the program, etc.

The only thing that I've done that I *think* might have something to do with my problem is that yesterday I installed the latest test version of Windows XP SP3 --- version 5503. I had been running SP3 version 3311 without any noticeable problems. This could be a red herring, though...

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions of things to try next?

TIA

RWood · 03-25-2008, 10:06 PM

I had a like experience a while back. I futzed with it for a few hours to no avail. I then unzipped the last update into the BookDesigner subdirectory and the problem went away.

If that doesn't fix the problem I would uninstall BookDesigner, reinstall the base files, and unzip the last update.

Good luck and keep us informed of your progress.

03-25-2008, 09:45 PM	#1
Timoleon Time Enough at Last Posts: 387 Karma: 1151316 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England Device: iPad 3, iPhone 5, Kindle 3, Fire, Sony PRS-350	Book Designer Empty Window Here's a maddening problem that has just cropped up After running Book Designer successfully for the last couple of weeks, I fired it up again this morning only to run into an empty window and a title bar that said: ...loading Book Designer... or ...loading Last File... and just stay that way. All the icons and menu commands seemed to work --- in that they were not frozen --- but no matter what I would do, the blank text window would just stay blank. The odd thing is that I went to my LastFile directory and it had in it the html file that I had tried to open, as if Book Designer had worked on the file but did not show anything on the screen. The program exited gracefully as well --- as if nothing had choked. But it's like it never fully loaded in the first place. I've tried various fixes to no avail: uninstalling & reinstalling, removing all instances of Book Designer by hand in the registry, running CrapCleaner and Advanced Windows Care to clean up stray remnants of the program, etc. The only thing that I've done that I think might have something to do with my problem is that yesterday I installed the latest test version of Windows XP SP3 --- version 5503. I had been running SP3 version 3311 without any noticeable problems. This could be a red herring, though... Anyone have any ideas or suggestions of things to try next? TIA

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03-25-2008, 10:06 PM	#2
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	I had a like experience a while back. I futzed with it for a few hours to no avail. I then unzipped the last update into the BookDesigner subdirectory and the problem went away. If that doesn't fix the problem I would uninstall BookDesigner, reinstall the base files, and unzip the last update. Good luck and keep us informed of your progress.