[APBeta] Windows crashes

[Paul Rodman]

I think I've nailed it. Let me just do some more testing and I'll get  
a release out.

Paul R.

On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:42 AM, RPEHLM wrote:

> With you on suspecting something since a35.  My personal suspect  
> (based purely on the position of the moon and chicken bones  
> scattered in the backyard) is something to do with redrawing; double- 
> buffer processing maybe?  Just had b1 instant crash on me.  It had  
> been left alone for 3 hours, selected the task-bar icon, instant  
> crash to desktop.  Didn't even get to display an AP window.
>
> Paul Rodman wrote:
>> I've been messing around in Windows today, and I was able to get  
>> the app to crash (or at least quit instantly) when I attempted to  
>> pull down the File menu. I suspect something is causing internal  
>> corruption. It's going to be a tough nut to crack unless I can  
>> reproduce the problem. Once I have a series of operations to  
>> reproduce the problem, I can start eliminating suspects. It's not  
>> going to be easy. I suspect it might be a compiler or plugin bug,  
>> since the REALbasic language pretty much guarantees that this kind  
>> of thing should never happen.
>>
>> Also, I suspect it might involve a recent change, since I don't  
>> recall anyone mentioning these kinds of crashes before 2.0a35.
>>
>> Paul R.
>>