To add more info:
I repeated the same experiment on Mac OSX 10.6.4
with VM 4.2.5beta1U and found no problems at all.

So it seems platform specific.

Bye
Enrico

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 17:00, Enrico Spinielli
<enrico.spinielli at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a reproduceable VM crash of Win32 Squeak VM version 4.1.1 (also
> with 4.0.2).
> The crash from my tests seems to be related to the size of the JPEG
> image being loaded.
>
> I downloaded locally images at [1] (image1) and [2] (image2).
> I was previewing them with DesktopBackgroundLoader [3],
> when I select image2 I am able to preview it, but when I select image1
> the VM crashes.
>
> Initially I was thinking at a bug in the JPEG Plugin but
> the surprise is that when I do the same with FileList there is no crash!!!
> Of course the two pieces of code are different...
>
> I have no clue on how to proceed so I post it to see whether somebody
> else can reproduce
> it as well and maybe dig further.
>
> Bye
> Enrico
>
> [1] 1280x1024 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080520.html
> [2] 800x600 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060109.html
>
> --
> Enrico Spinielli
> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick
>



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Enrico Spinielli
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
"Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick