[APBeta] Windows crashes

[Paul Rodman]

On Nov 14, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:

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

Well, it's better now, but I'm still seeing a crash after messing  
around for a while. It might be related to something else.

Oh well...

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.
>>>