annoying application error in 9.10.04

[David_OTSINC]

This exact error popped up when I was trying to open a file found and listed in a still searching Windows XP Pro search window.

The file opened, and I got this same error.

I hope that helps track it down.

David

[phurley]

I am also getting these errors. Everything seems to work (if you ignore the error dialogs) although shutting down the editor is a pain.

This is on a multi-monitor WinXP pro system. 3.2Ghz P4, 2Gig ram.

If it matters I often run (and add files to) multi-edit from the command line.

[hydrotex]

I’m getting the same error – has support responded with a fix yet?

[DanHughes]

I’ve never seen the problem happen until just recently and that only happened after I recompiled Multi-Edit using Delphi 2006 which has a new memory manager that is less forgiving of memory issues.

I have this on my list of things to get fixed before the next release. I still haven’t figured out exactly what the conditions are that cause this issue but at least now I can get it to happen frequently enough that I believe I can figure out the problem.

Thanks to everyone that has reported their setup information. This will help me to know where to start looking.

[deleyd]

One thing that can cause an internal buffer overflow in Multi-Edit is if one of the global history string variables is longer than around 990 characters and it gets used in a dialog box. Normally file path/name length is limited to 259 chars on Windows, but there was one instance when I was doing a Wildcard Tag Scan and strung together a lot of file names that exceeded this limit (because I wasn’t savvy enough to use a wildcard).

Here’s a simple program that will list all global string variables longer than 950. The output will go to window MSG-2.LOG. If any of the global variable names listed have the word HISTORY in it, it could be a problem.
[code:1rvqjpqe]#include Win32.sh
#include MsgLog.sh

void global950()
{
int gType;
str gv[ 32 ];
str gs[max_line_length];

gv = First_Global( gType );
while ( gv != ” )
{
if ( !gType ){
gs = Global_Str(gv);
if (svl(gs) > 950){
Pad_Str(gv, 32, " ");
DebugLog(2,"gv",gv+" "+gs);
}
}
gv = Next_Global( gType );
}
}[/code:1rvqjpqe]

(Dan refer to Deley Discussions “dialog.s buffer overflow”)

[DanHughes]

OK folks, I’ve been trying to track down this issue and I have found out a few things.

By chance do any of you that have this problem use Window Blinds to skin your applications and allow it to skin Multi-Edit?

I have found that if I use Window Blinds and I open the Explorer style dialog, when I shutdown Multi-Edit I get the error described here. If I disable Window Blinds from skinning Multi-Edit, then I have no trouble shutting down Multi-Edit. I haven’t figured out exactly why error is happening as the code in the File Prompt is code from a third party component library that we are using and I haven’t gotten into checking their code yet.

[David_OTSINC]

I do NOT use Window Blinds.

I have experienced this error by opening files from inside MS Explore, not editing anything (look and see) and closing ME.

A Windows connection is assured.

Incidentally, I don’t THINK there are any file names that exceed DOS length limits involved in my set up.

Good luck, and good hunting.

David

[David_OTSINC]

By the way…

I apparently did not have the ME AutoSave system set up properly.

the BAK and TMP directories did not exist, but I had requested an autosave, and a backup of the original file the first time only.

I recently fixed that. Could there be a relationship with this other error?

David

[dcrick]

I also get this error and it start after I upgrade to a new laptop that has a dual core chip set. The laptop also has 2GIGs of RAM. I can general produce the error just me open and closing MEW repeatly. With no files being open by MEW.

Just thought I throw my observations in.

[Graeme]

Hi,

I am not sure if this problem is related to:

http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums … highlight=

Although this was a problem purely from having 2 physical CPU’s and was solved using a program that sets the affinity.

Graeme

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