MCS is Crashing

[mark_s]

I never had any problems with crashing, until recently. I followed Henrik's posts in the past, regarding this issue, but had nothing to add.

Last month it crashed on my work bench laptop. After rebooting the pc it seemed ok and no more crashes. It's a gateway 486 running the last version of XP. This pc is never connected to the net and been stable, running PBP2.6 and 3 for at least 5 years.

A few days ago, I plugged my usb flash drive into the laptop and opened a pbp file in MCS. I compiled the file without problem. Then I saved the file to my MSCX folder. I started to modify a line, and got the error message. After rebooting it would not allow me to modify that file without crashing.

Now days later, I can open the file from the MSCX folder without any crashing.

For me it seems to be a path problem as Forwardbias stated above. Both times that I had problems it was while using a flash drive.

One thing my case indicates is that it has nothing to do with which version of Windows you are running. Same problem on XP, 7 and 10

[picster]

NO crashes so far since I changed the default settings for comments to NON italics. All my crashes were during typing documentation remarks, and I figure it was processing them on the fly and changing the font with every keystroke... since I changed it to only change the COLOR (but not the font characteristic to italics), I have NOT experienced a crash.

I would appreciate if others could try this and continue to test concurrently with me.

[mark_s]

Ok, I switched to non-italics on both MCS and MCSX.

Thanks

[Demon]

Mark, sorry I missed this thread back in March.

I would have been curious to know what would have happened if you editted that bad line in NOTEPAD, and then compiled that from MCS.

Notepad removes all formatting.

Robert

[tumbleweed]

I would have been curious to know what would have happened if you editted that bad line in NOTEPAD, and then compiled that from MCS

Not much. Any formatting like fonts, colors, or italics is strictly in the IDE display. The source files are already plain-text.

[mark_s]

Hi Robert, it's actually Picster that beleives the crashing is from using italics in the IDE. I was trying to change a DEFINE OSC statement and every time I hit a key it would crash. This happened only to the file from my flash drive. I could edit files on my hard drive? I switched to non italics, just in case this actually is the cause.

I think a real test would be to leave italics checked. When a crash occurs switch to non-italics and see if it stops.

If you read through both threads on this subject. You will find there is no pattern or consistancy, so difficult to trouble shoot.

[MichelJasmin]

Do you copy some text from the datasheet PDF and then paste to MCS? Not sure but I used to had crashes when doing it...

[picster]

Do you copy some text from the datasheet PDF and then paste to MCS? Not sure but I used to had crashes when doing it...

Maybe the windows clipboard is including the font formatting and it's also messing up the in-line font processing?

[picster]

Hi Robert, it's actually Picster that beleives the crashing is from using italics in the IDE. I was trying to change a DEFINE OSC statement and every time I hit a key it would crash. This happened only to the file from my flash drive. I could edit files on my hard drive? I switched to non italics, just in case this actually is the cause.

I think a real test would be to leave italics checked. When a crash occurs switch to non-italics and see if it stops.

If you read through both threads on this subject. You will find there is no pattern or consistancy, so difficult to trouble shoot.

Note that a DEFINE statement is also likely in a specified "different" font/color, causing it to be processed "on the fly" as you're typing... same problrem, different manifestation. Were you using italics for Defines?

[Demon]

I've always used default MCSP settings.

My laptop used is a HP Pavillion i5 Intel/nVidia.

I'll try later typing a long-winded comment and see how that goes.

Robert