Satori Tips and
Tricks for Beginners
# 1 Start-Up
By Michael Hirsh
Fire It Up!
The ideal way to work
with Satori is to use a graphics tablet. Get the biggest one
that you can afford if you plan to do a lot of painting.
There can be a slight
problem with graphics tablets, however. If you have set up your
pen to give the maximum painting response and sensitivity, Satori
can sometimes fall over itself in its eagerness to get to work.
Here's what happens:
You double click
the Satori shortcut on the desktop...
The software fires up
in the usual way, and then a second copy of Satori immediately
launches itself. This second copy of the program gives a scary
warning which can be a bit puzzling when you first meet it.
Here's the dire
warning:
Fear not, there's
a simple explanation.
Have a look at your taskbar.
If you have indeed got two copies of Satori open, it will look
like this:
All that's happened is
that you have probably triple clicked on your Satori shortcut.
In the split second that Satori starts up the first copy, it
then receives a request for a second copy while the program loader
is still going through its launch routine. This forces an error
condition, and you get the warning.
Of course if you really
have had an abnormal shut down, you will know that this
is the case if you see only a single copy of Satori on the taskbar.
Click the OK button, and Satori will volunteer to fetch the Autosaved
files from the previous session. Accept gratefully.
Try doing this triple
click on purpose, it will take the terror out of the error message.