Animation preview is empty

1) Edit image

2) Right click on default animation

3) Preview

4) Empty window!?

Same here.

Plus if I move the window, the grayed background (layer/layout) just blinks/have strange lighter rectangles going on.

I never really used the preview, so I couldn't say if it worked in previous versions.

To me it's not a big deal, I don't really use the preview function in C2. Just tried to see at some point a few days ago and noticed it wouldn't work.

I'm not sure what you mean - if I insert a new sprite and immediately preview the default animation, I get a blank white 200x200 window (the size of the default canvas). That's the intended behavior. What do you see and what were you expecting instead?

I see a blank white window but I expect that I see at least the image I put in the sprite.

<img src="http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/2457/spritet.png" border="0" />

Same as counterfeit.

Plus if I move the window on screen, and my mouse cursor is over the layout (not the animations, animation frame or image editor window) the greyed background just goes "fuzzy" and displays moving lines of "ungreyed".

Hard to described, and I can't seem to be able to screenshot it.

On XP sp3 too.

I'll move to 7 in the upcoming days.

Ah, I see, got it. Thanks, fixed for next build. It would have waited for you to "finish" the current frame (i.e. switch to another frame or close and reopen) before the preview updated - now the preview is always up to date.

Ah, I see, got it. Thanks, fixed for next build. It would have waited for you to "finish" the current frame (i.e. switch to another frame or close and reopen) before the preview updated - now the preview is always up to date.

In the current version, switching through different frames doesn't help.

Also importing frames, closing the image editor, reopening it and trying to get a preview still doesn't display the preview.

I just wanted to point that out, in case.

Hm... well, we'll see what happens with the next build and go from there, otherwise we might enter the realm of telepathic debugging.

Happening on my comp with r53 and 9800gt.

Yeah, same here

C2 r53; Windows XP SP3; FireFox 6.0.1; ATI Radeon HD 4870

Telepathic debuging, huh ^^

So even if you open an existing animation with several frames and hit preview, you don't see anything?!

Yes.

The preview window accords to the size of the first frame. But the content is blank.

Same here. Windows XP SP3, Geforce 9800GT. Tested with build r53.

Can anyone reproduce this on Vista/7? I think it might be an XP-only issue.

Just tested on Win7 laptop and preview worked.