[DUG] Google Desktop locking Delphi app

[Conor Boyd]

Hi,

I've got a weird problem where running Google Desktop on a PC is
interfering with a Delphi program of mine.

The Delphi program uses a folder on the disk as cache folder for JPG
images. This partially multi-threaded app locks up sometimes when Google
Desktop is running.

Closing Google Desktop (presumably it's the crawler part of Google
Desktop that's the problem) causes the app to become responsive again.

Telling Google Desktop not to index this particular disk folder doesn't
solve the problem.

Has anybody experienced anything similar to this?  I haven't been able
to find much on the web.

FYI, the problem can be reproduced debugging the following (pseudo) code
for one of my threads:

Procedure TMyThread.Execute;
Begin
  try
    //Do some stuff like retrieving a JPG image from the cache folder
described above

    Synchronize(SimpleMethodToUpdateGUI);

    //If Google Desktop is running, then sometimes the thread seems to
have hung in the above
    //call to Synchronise.
    //As soon as Google Desktop is shut down, things perk up again.
  except
    on E: Exception do
      LogProblem;
  end;
End;

Procedure TMyThread.SimpleMethodToUpdateGUI;
Begin
  //If Google Desktop is running, sometimes execution never arrives in
here.
  //As soon as Google Desktop is shut down, execution arrives here.
  //Weird.
End;

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Cheers,

Conor

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of lbisman
Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 8:20 p.m.
To: delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
Subject: [DUG] Problem with Database Desktop

I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem...

When I exit from the Database Desktop, I get "Unexpected:
General Protection Violation" error.

I was using D7, but also have Turbo Delphi installed and had dbdesktop
going with both of them fine, until ...

I've removed the Database Desktop and copied it back on from a computer
that is working correctly.

I've uninstalled Turbo Delphi

I've uninstalled D7

I've reinstalled both (checking between times)

all to no avail... The only thing I can think of is that there was a
recent (just before this problem) update to Windows XP - the computer
I'm having a problem on receives updates automatically (work beast), but
my home computers all use Win2000 and are fine.

Any suggestions.

It's not a complete disaster as I'll trash my work computer and rebuild
it before too much longer anyway as it's the end of the year, but I
would like to track down the cause in case it happens again.

Laurie..


Laurie..
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