Strange application interaction
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I use Super(C) to convert audio and video files. It has a strange effect on Visual Studio 2003. I sometimes I have it converting files in the background whilst working. Certain activities in VS2003 during this time cause VS2003 to shutdown (with no error reports). These activities include Replace All, Start Debugging and some, but not all, Find actions. It seems to be when VC2003 displays a pop-up dialog box (but again some pop-ups work). Mainly this is no more than an irritation (be careful of what I do during audio conversion and save often) but I got to thinking how on earth Super(C) can actually cause another application to shut down. Any ideas?
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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I use Super(C) to convert audio and video files. It has a strange effect on Visual Studio 2003. I sometimes I have it converting files in the background whilst working. Certain activities in VS2003 during this time cause VS2003 to shutdown (with no error reports). These activities include Replace All, Start Debugging and some, but not all, Find actions. It seems to be when VC2003 displays a pop-up dialog box (but again some pop-ups work). Mainly this is no more than an irritation (be careful of what I do during audio conversion and save often) but I got to thinking how on earth Super(C) can actually cause another application to shut down. Any ideas?
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
I had a similar issue with VS2003. When I hit a breakpoint whilst debugging, and Excel is open, Excel would simply freeze till the debugger was told to continue.
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I had a similar issue with VS2003. When I hit a breakpoint whilst debugging, and Excel is open, Excel would simply freeze till the debugger was told to continue.
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)leppie wrote:
Excel is open, Excel would simply freeze till the debugger was told to cont
<wild guess> Excel is blocking on a global lock in a CRT memory management function, and that lock is currently held by your application. </wild guess>
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I had a similar issue with VS2003. When I hit a breakpoint whilst debugging, and Excel is open, Excel would simply freeze till the debugger was told to continue.
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Explorer will do the same thing, as will other Office apps at times; i suspect the frozen app is holding up DDE processing or something similar (someone's waiting on broadcast messages...). Lame...
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Explorer will do the same thing, as will other Office apps at times; i suspect the frozen app is holding up DDE processing or something similar (someone's waiting on broadcast messages...). Lame...
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I guess I can be lucky I have only reached that extreme case of multitasking once in my life ;P
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Sadly, when i get interrupted it tends to completely wreck my focus on whatever i'm doing. I'll come back to my desk and start reading email or something, while the debugger sits in the background still waiting for me to unfreeze some poor app. :sigh:
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Sadly, when i get interrupted it tends to completely wreck my focus on whatever i'm doing. I'll come back to my desk and start reading email or something, while the debugger sits in the background still waiting for me to unfreeze some poor app. :sigh:
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This begs the question: What is the longest you have breaked on a breakpoint while debugging. Currently, my VS is 'frozen' on a single breakpoint for the last 3 days (home PC, not work). ;P
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This begs the question: What is the longest you have breaked on a breakpoint while debugging. Currently, my VS is 'frozen' on a single breakpoint for the last 3 days (home PC, not work). ;P
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)Heh, well, i believe i once left VS stopped on a breakpoint while i left for the weekend; so that'd be not quite three days. Generally, i do need to open an Office document sooner rather than later, and must then go in and deal with it.
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