von dp am 07.Januar 98 um 21:15:03:
zu: Director crashes under NT von dp am 07.Januar 98 um 21:13:12:
britton wrote:
>>I am running NT4 with SP3 and Director 6.0r153. The projector i have
>>created sporadically crashes with a Dr. Watson error 1 out of 30 times.
>>Although this is a pretty low number it is something my client keeps asking
>>me about. in my app i am only using the standard xtras for sound, quicktime
>>and buttons.
>>
then Ron Beary wrote:
>Of course there are many other causes for this but I've seen this happen
>sometimes when there are objects in the actorList when stopMovie is called.
>If you happen to be using the actorList then try this:
>
>on stopMovie
>set the actorList = []
>end
>
That is 'crash-on-exit' which is about the only kind of crash I remember from DfW501/w95.
My experience is still very much DfW501-based (I wanted to test it with d601 but this, umm, led to another thread), however, it seems that 'sporadic Dir crashes under NT4' are an entirely different thing.
If the runmode="Author" crashes are more likely to occur when:
- selecting text in a script window with mouse down, select another (script or field) window, copy and paste
- after a "handler not defined: #getaprop" type of error/alert occurred (not immediately, rather after fixing that particular mess and start the playhead again)
- on saving
From a projector:
- accessing objects in a miaw (even when a lot of if objectP(dObj) checking is in the code)
- after ok-clicking a printomatic lite 1.5.3 error message
My theory about the nature of those crashes was: w95 is quite tolerant if a programm tries to access memory which it shouldn't touch. NT4 is not, instead it just strangulates a program which messes around. Boing, Dr.Watson.
So I was hoping that DfW6.0x might be better adapted to NT4.0 strict memory protection but your message seems to indicate that this is not the case.
I don't know if these problems are of a singular type, in other words: something with that particular programm design, system setup, grafik board.... or if its kind of a common thing when authoring / playing under NT4. I would very much like to find that out.
So if anyone else is experiencing things like that, please post or mail me a description.
Another thing: with every crash Dr.Watson writes a log of cpu registers and assembler instructions that lead to the crash. I could collect them if there was someone in the know how to interpret them...
Best regards
D. Plänitz