Crashing app - guidance?

[Sarah Reichelt]

> I've been developing an app for a long time. I'm still testing it
> under the RR IDE and it's suddenly started to cause both the OSX and
> Windows XP versions of RR 2.6.1 to crash: in the OSX version you get
> an actual 'unexpected quit' after which the program gets stuck (not
> quitting) and has to be forced to quit; on Windows, at about the same
> point in the program the window display goes haywire with windows
> (individual stacks) remaining on the screen after having been hidden
> or closed, but not being 'really' there, i.e. not responding to mouse
> clicks, plus other graphic problems like multiple images. I even
> tried making a standalone on OSX, but that crashed too.
>

Hi Graham,

I have encountered a very similar problem recently, although I am only
using OS X. In my case, it works on some computers and not on others.
I have put in debug checks and the line that causes the crash seems
harmless. If I comment it out, the crash still occurs, and not on the
next line but several lines later. In my case, the "unexpected quit"
dialog does actually quit the program and then it works OK if I use
"Reopen" on that dialog, but not if I close and try to launch the app
normally.

My solution was to revert to compiling the app with version 2.2.1 of
Rev. It isn't a great solution, but I was in a hurry (as usual) and at
least it gave me an app that would run reliably.

If you get any more info, I would love to hear it.

Cheers,
Sarah