[DUG] app terminating abruptly

[Kyley Harris]

Have you run memcheck yet?


On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:35:46 +1300, Ross Levis <ross at stationplaylist.com>  
wrote:

> I've got madExcept installed and enabled it initially when this problem
> started, but guess what, the app still terminates with no error box or
> anything.
>
> It is also not a proper program closure since the system tray icon stays
> in the system tray until you move the mouse over it.
>
> I didn't know about OutputDebugString.  What I did do is write a Debug
> unit which outputs a string to a file.  I haven't yet put a line into
> every procedure and function at this stage so that may help as well, but
> I have a timer at 10ms doing things like checking for data on TCP
> sockets and various other things so this file will get big very fast.  I
> think I'll change it to keep only the last few lines.
>
> Cheers,
> Ross.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nahum.Wild" <Nahum.Wild at payglobal.com>
> To: "'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'" <delphi at ns3.123.co.nz>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:12 AM
> Subject: RE: [DUG] app terminating abruptly
>
>
>
> Use madExcept [http://www.madexcept.com/madExceptDescription.htm] it'll
> give
> you a call stack for each thread running when the crash occurs.  Since
> using
> it our tricky unexplained crashes have turned into 'it crashed there,
> now
> why did it do that' type problems.
>
> Nahum.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On Behalf Of Conor Boyd
>> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:03 a.m.
>> To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
>> Subject: RE: [DUG] app terminating abruptly
>>
>> In terms of logging, you could look at tracing using the
>> OutputDebugString method in the Windows unit (D5 anyway).
>>
>> If you're outputting stuff via that method, you could pick it
>> up in realtime and remotely using something like DebugView
>> from Sysinternals
>> (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/DebugView.html)
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Conor
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz
>> [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On Behalf Of Robert martin
>>
>> You might also want to log where your code is running in a
>> file log, this might give you a hint as to where the error is
>> occurring.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
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