Spreadsheet Plugin load lines in scenefile cause lwsn to lockup ?

[Adrian@Stufish]

So its 2200 on friday and I've just had to cycle back in to work because all my render nodes had hung on scene load,

Why ?
because I had dared to use spreadsheet to adjust some lights in thescene.

The following lines appeared befor the first object load line in the scene file.

Plugin MasterHandler 1 .SpreadsheetStandardBanks
EndPlugin
Plugin MasterHandler 2 .SpreadsheetStandardBanks
EndPlugin
Plugin MasterHandler 3 .SpreadsheetStandardBanks
EndPlugin
Plugin MasterHandler 4 SpreadsheetSceneManager
{ IMP
1
{ Workspace
"Default"
ShowLockedItems 1
SupplementalRows 1 0
MultiselectSimilarTypes 1
UseLayoutLocking 0
UseLayoutTimelineLocking 0
ItemLimitMode 6
ItemSortMode 0
UseItemFilter 1
ItemFilter "Glow" 0 5
ShowFilterControls 1
ShowBanks 1
ShowTimeline 0
BankDivider 0.40000001
{ Bank2
Class 1
PresetID 5f4c5046
Column 5f4c5046 0 50
Column 5f4c5046 1 50
Column 5f4c5046 2 50
Column 5f4c5046 3 50
Column 5f4c5046 4 50
Column 5f4c5046 5 50
}
TimelineDivider 150
TimelineZoom 2
TimelineRange 0 0.83999997
}
CurrentWorkspace 0
}

It apperas that lwsn.exe cannot load spreadsheet - well what a suprise.
So it locks up.

I edit out the lines in a text editor, and evervthing works

my lw.exe and lwsn.exe are both 7.5c

anyone else hit this ?

[Matt]

yep, everyone! it's a known bug, hopefully it will be sorted in v8.

[UnCommonGrafx]

Since the spreadsheet came on board. Made for something to "be aware of" when rendering. Particularly before walking of the the render site.
:(

[Exper]

Originally posted by Matt
yep, everyone! it's a known bug, hopefully it will be sorted in v8. Kevin Phillips wrote a utility that fixes that bug:
http://www.kevman3d.com/files/LCSM_10_beta.zip

Take a look (mid of page):
http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10393&perpage=15&pagenumber=20

Bye.