Toxic Text Crashes MC 2.5

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

David,

Do you have any images or linked images in those fields? You didn't
mention this... It was a strong source of crashes before (less now...)

Which version of MC are you using?

cheers
Xavier



On 19.05.2005 15:31:01 metacard-bounces wrote:
>One topic of great interest that I have not seen much discussed on
>this list or the Revolution list is this:
>
>The conditions under which MC "unexpectedly quits", and how to detect
>and prevent those conditions in advance.
>
>Here is a case.
>
>Field 1 is a background field with different content on each card, and
>on most cards all works as expected.  But on one card the particular
>content of that field is causing crashes.  The contents are displayed
>properly, but any attempt to "get the htmlText of field 1" causes an
>unexpected quit of MC 2.5, both in Mac OSX 10.2 and in Windows XP.  I
>was able to copy a chunk of the text, but then had a crash when I
>tried to delete the copy from the field where I had pasted it.  Trying
>to "get the rtfText of field 1" also causes a crash.  I made a copy of
>the whole stack, and the problem card of the copied stack showed the
>same symptoms.
>
>In Windows XP, the dialog reporting the crash says:
>
>The instruction at "0x0044d8ef" referenced memory at "0x00000000".
>The memory could not be "read".
>
>Now field 1 of the problem card has various suspect elements:  some
>chunks styled "link" with assigned linkText; some chunks displayed in
>color; some runs of hard spaces.  But whatever is causing a flaw in
>the htmlText is not preventing MC from displaying it.  Selecting and
>backspacing to try to delete part of the field (my attempt to narrow
>down the source of the problem) causes a crash, and it's not clear
>whether that shows a problem with the part I selected.
>
>I could of course simply delete the card that is behaving this way,
>but I would like to make some diagnosis of the problem so that I can
>be confident that my various editing scripts that rely on getting the
>htmlText will not crash my program in the future.  Since I can't
>inspect the htmlText in question, I can't really know what's wrong
>with it.
>
>Anyone have any related experiences, insights, or suggestions of how
>to proceed?  Thanks very much.
>
>David Epstein
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