[VW7.8] Image turns irresponsive with more than one error notification(?)

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[VW7.8] Image turns irresponsive with more than one error notification(?)

Christian Haider

Hi,

 

I’m moving to VW 7.8 but, despite some nice improvements (_wincall is nice), it seems unusable.

 

I had several incidents when more than on Error notifications come up (my first naïve theory), the image blocks up completely. Ctrl-y and Ctrl-Shift-y does not work and the process manager does not come up (on German keyboard Ctrl-#). I can still switch between windows and they repaint OK, but the windows associated with the error(s) and the notifiers are just blank. The reasons for the errors are presumably simple (MNU or similar). My guess is that the new split into two host processes is creating a deadlock when more than one error occurs.

 

This makes developing really difficult (kill process, recover changes and try again) and is an absolute no-go for the products I want to deliver.

 

Any idea how I can get a handle on that? Would the debug engine be of help here? Or do I really have to ditch the 7.8 and revert to 7.7.1?

 

If anybody has an idea how to narrow the problem down, I’m happy to help.

 

Cheers,

                Christian


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Re: [VW7.8] Image turns irresponsive with more than one error notification(?)

Alan Knight-2
I doubt very much that it's related to the two processes. It sounds like you have an error that in some way cripples the rest of the system. For example, by occuring inside an important critical section such that something else can't run while the exception window is open. Or putting something into a state such that when something else tries to run it also causes an error.

The simplest thing to do would be to run
   Notifier current: ErrorNotifier

and when the condition occurs you'll get the error written to an error.log file and can look at it.



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Hi,

 

I’m moving to VW 7.8 but, despite some nice improvements (_wincall is nice), it seems unusable.

 

I had several incidents when more than on Error notifications come up (my first naïve theory), the image blocks up completely. Ctrl-y and Ctrl-Shift-y does not work and the process manager does not come up (on German keyboard Ctrl-#). I can still switch between windows and they repaint OK, but the windows associated with the error(s) and the notifiers are just blank. The reasons for the errors are presumably simple (MNU or similar). My guess is that the new split into two host processes is creating a deadlock when more than one error occurs.

 

This makes developing really difficult (kill process, recover changes and try again) and is an absolute no-go for the products I want to deliver.

 

Any idea how I can get a handle on that? Would the debug engine be of help here? Or do I really have to ditch the 7.8 and revert to 7.7.1?

 

If anybody has an idea how to narrow the problem down, I’m happy to help.

 

Cheers,

                Christian

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