WB 5 Crashes Borland Developer Studio 2006 on Startup

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Can you guys test out (or help me test out) what might be causing Borland Developer Studio 2006 to crash on startup when WindowBlinds is running and it's not excluded using Application Exceptions?

Here are some of my discoveries:

- During startup of BDS2006, an exception happens trying to set up dockable windows and a crash occurs in wblinds.dll
- BDS2006 has actually been running fine on my box with WB5 since it was released. Only today when I needed to uninstall and re-install it did this start occurring.
- BDS2006 has, however, exhibited a redraw glitch when some themes are applied. the way it manifests itself is that if the window is visible when the theme is applied, the top part of the IDE is redrawn going down the screen to the bottom, then resuming again at the top and going down. Almost like it's getting an infinite set of update notifications, each lower than the other. It has a 'dropping curtain' kind of effect.
- None of the 'partial' application exception settings of windowblinds 5 have fixed this.
- The particular theme doesn't matter - I've tried several.
- Once BDS2006 is up, I can start WB5 and apply a theme, and in most cases, the theme WILL skin BDS2006 as well. But if I shut down and restart BDS2006, it crashes again at startup in Wblind.dll

Thanks in advance,

Randy
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What is the crash address in wblind.dll and what build of WB do you have installed (system tray icon for WB will show it in the tooltip)

Also was it BDS2006 you uninstalled & reinstalled, or WB?

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To answer your second question first - BDS2006 was what I uninstalled and re-installed.

Windowblinds 5.00 build 56 is my WB build.

What I did to help get you guys better info was actually launched BDS2006 from Delphi 2005 under the debugger so I could log everything Windows messages, module loads, etc. Here's where the debugger catches it:

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Debugger Exception Notification
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Project bds.exe raised exception class EReadError with message 'Error reading DockableForm.BorderStyle: Access violation at address 6601EE77 in module 'wblind.dll'. Read of address 00000020'.
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Break Continue Help
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I don't know if this helps, but here is some of the stuff that happens right before this:

Message sent: hwnd=$001006F4 WM_PAINT wParam $00000000 lParam $00000000 Process bds.exe (5860)
Message sent: hwnd=$001006F4 WM_ERASEBKGND wParam $560107D2 lParam $00000000 Process bds.exe (5860)
Module Load: GExpertsBDS2006.dll. No Debug Info. Base Address: $03010000. Process bds.exe (5860)
First chance exception at $7C81EB33. Exception class EReadError with message 'Error reading DockableForm.BorderStyle: Access violation at address 6601EE77 in module 'wblind.dll'. Read of address 00000020'. Process bds.exe (5860)

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A small tweak has been made to WB for the next build (this week sometime).  Please let us know if this resolved the problem or not.
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Do you have an ETA on this? I'm watching for it, just wondering if I missed it.

Randy

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just downloaded and installed the latest update to WB5. It fixes the problem! Thanks so much!

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Just downloaded and installed the latest update to WB5. It fixes the problem! Thanks so much!

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