Modifying SpryTabbedPanels CSS Causes Crash

[johnstst]

I'm relatively new to web development, let alone application development. I have a DW CS3 / CF 8 / MySQL configuration. The configuration itself works fine. I was trying to style the tabbed panels and whenever I modify a css property for the SpryTabbedPanels, Dreamweaver crashes and I have to manually access the .css file before Dreamweaver will even restart. This appears isolated to the SpryTabbedPanels. I'm using the Spry 1.6.1 version on a PC with XP Professional.

Has anyone encountered this problem? I'd really appreciate some help.

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"johnstst" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> whenever I modify a css
> property for the SpryTabbedPanels, Dreamweaver crashes and I have to
> manually
> access the .css file before Dreamweaver will even restart.

You have almost certainly encountered the dreaded 8,192 bug, which I
stumbled across when editing the margin property for tabbed panels.
When I changed it from 0px to 0 0 15px 0, it crashed Dreamweaver, and
the only way I could restart the program was to delete the file. A
Dreamweaver engineer finally identified the problem as the edit making
the file exactly 8,192 bytes long. Apparently, the presence in a
Dreamweaver site of any file that's 8,192 bytes long or an exact
multiple thereof causes CS3 to crash.

The solution is remarkably simple: add a comment or a couple of new
lines in the CSS file to make it slightly bigger. This bug affects all
files, not just style sheets. It has now been fixed in CS4.

--
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com

[johnstst]

Hi David
Thank you for your very prompt response. You are absolutely correct and the problem has been rectified! I never would have figured this out so you have my gratitude. I'm glad to hear the issue has been fixed in CS4. I have DW CS 4 for Mac but (long story) I don't want to install CF on it so I am sticking with the DW CS3 on the PC. I've added your blog to my list of favorite and who knows, maybe I'll look into some PHP programming (and some of your books).
Thanks again!