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- Troubleshooting Guide
-
- Having problems with Coffee Break? Read this list, and see if your problem
- is on this list somewhere. If you can't find a solution, please contact me
- at one of the addresses listed in the Read Me. I'll do my best to help you
- solve your problem.
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- Q: Every time I restart my machine, Coffee Break turns off the "Pause when
- saver on" option. What gives?
-
- A: I bet you use Darkside of the Mac as your screen saver, right? This has
- been a common problem with Coffee Break. If you have both Darkside and
- Coffee Break aliases in your Startup Items folder, then Coffee Break will
- start up before Darkside does. When it starts up and doesn't find a screen
- saver installed that is compatible with the "Pause when saver on" option, it
- turns that option off.
-
- Solution: Make sure that Coffee Break starts up AFTER Darkside. You can do
- this by renaming either alias in your Startup Items folder to ensure that
- Darkside's alias comes alphabetically before Coffee Break's. (Note that a
- space is considered to be alphabetically before "a".) I recommend renaming
- Coffee Break's alias to something like "zCoffee Break".
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- Q: When my screen saver comes on, Coffee Break's timer doesn't pause. Why
- not?
-
- A: Not all screen savers are compatible with Coffee Break's timer-pausing
- options. The "Pause when saver on" option is currently only supported by a
- few savers (see the Read Me for a list). The Pause Helper option only
- supports screen savers that are applications, not extension- or control
- panel-type screen savers.
-
- Solution: If you are using one of the screen savers listed in the Read Me,
- make sure that the "Pause when saver on" option (in General Options of the
- Options dialog) is turned on. If you are not using one of these screen
- savers, but the screen saver you use is an application, go to the Helper
- Options section of the Options dialog, and choose a Pause helper by clicking
- the Change button next to the appropriate item. If your screen saver does
- not fit into any of these categories, then it will not be supported by
- Coffee Break.
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- Q: I can't view the help. I set a Help helper application, but now when I
- ask for help, I get some kind of error message instead of help. What's
- wrong?
-
- A: The Help helper you specify MUST be a World Wide Web browser. If it is
- not a World Wide Web browser, then you will get errors when you ask for
- help. Currently, browsers that are known to be supported are Netscape,
- Mosaic, and MacWeb, since they conform to the standards developed for WWW
- browsers on the Mac. I have also tested AOL's browser, and have found that
- it does not work for this purpose. HTML Viewer, a simple application for
- viewing files in the same format as Coffee Break's help file, is currently
- unsupported, but I have assurances from the author that he is working on
- making it support these same standards. The current version, 1.0.9, does not
- yet support these standards, but there may be a new version out as you read
- this.
-
- Solution: If you have a WWW browser, simply change your Help helper in the
- Helper Options section of the Options dialog to specify that browser. If you
- do not have a WWW browser, and would like to view the help in a plain text
- file, then you must clear your Help helper selection. To do so, go to the
- Helper Options section of the Options dialog, and then press and hold the
- Option key. You will notice that the "Change" buttons will now read "Clear".
- Click the Clear button next to the "On-line help" item. Next time you ask
- for help, click the "Save as Text" button rather than the "Set Helper"
- button.
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- Q: Whenever Coffee Break warns me that it's time to save my work, an alert
- appears and it doesn't let go of the processor. This causes anything I had
- running in the background (downloads, searches, etc.) to stop. How can I
- avoid this?
-
- A: When Alert Notification is turned on, Coffee Break uses the Notification
- Manager to send you a "note" that it's time to save. The System actually
- displays the alert, and unfortunately, does so in such a way that it steals
- all your processor time. To prevent this from happening, you can turn the
- Alert Notification off.
-
- Solution: In the Options dialog, select the Notification Options section.
- There should be four check boxes here. Make sure that the Alert check box is
- not checked. After you do this, you will never see the warning alert again.
- To ensure that you know when it's time to save, however, you will want to
- make sure that at least one of the other three options is on.
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