CVI 8.5 IDE fatal errors

[LuisG]

Greg,

Were you also unloading the project when you got this crash?

Luis

[gvan]

No I wasn't unloading a project, but unloading a project does what I was doing.  i.e. closing all of the project files.  When working in large workspaces, or just with lots of files, I periodically close all open files just to clean up the workspace since I often end up with dozens of open files.   This is what I was doing at the time of the crash.  The crash happened when I got to file that needed to be saved, but is not easily repeatable.  I do this often and saving a file was not unquie to this time.

Greg

[menchar]

Some info -

We're thinking that sometimes, after you've changed a header file (but haven't explicitly saved it), and then compile a module that includes that header file, the compiler picks up and uses the unchanged header file off the disk rather than the just-modified header file.

This is with CVI 8.0.

Is this expected behavior?

Menchar

[LuisG]

No, it's not expected behavior. If there's a file with changes that is open in CVI, the build should always use the modified file and not the saved file, regardless of whether it's a source file or a header file.

Luis

[menchar]

Just when you think it's over ....

Got another CVI abort when I was simply editing a c file.      001B:10684354

Politely prompted me to save files after the popup and before terminating.

Attached is view of the c file I was editing - I was entering the function at the bottom of the screen.  I had just switched over to the c file from the UIR file.

I've also included the panel showing the option settings.

[LuisG]

Thanks, menchar. A couple of questions:

1. After you restarted CVI, did you try to make it happen again, following more or less the same actions?

2. Are you still using 8.5, or have you already installed 8.5.1?

Luis

[menchar]

Luis -

Still using CVI 8.5, don't have access to 8.5.1 yet.  

It kept faulting time after time on me, I had tried to load the project into CVI 8.0 and it complained that it was a later version.  So I installed 8.5 full and loaded the project.  It would then  fault every few minutes it seemed, when I was editing the c file.  Then I saved the c and uir files off under new names, and it quit faulting.

Menchar

[menchar]

After saving off the .c file and .uir file to different file names, the problem has not reoccurred.  Something got cleaned up obviously with the file save.  I'd be curious if that avoids the problem for others that are seeing fatal errors.

I'm also still seeing the highly annoying behavior of a compile yanking the uir file to the foreground.  Seeing this on a second project now.  I know you guys think this isn't a big deal, but let me tell you, try using the IDE for several hours with this and you'll be ready to chuck CVI and move on to something else.  All I can say is thank God the Lakers won last night or I would have thrown my laptop with 8.5 full off the balcony.

The 8.5 version of CVI seems to have more bugs than a major revision.

Does 8.5.1 contain fixes for any of this?

8.5.1 isn't a free or maintenance upgrade apparently, so I guess we're being asked to pay for the bug fixes too.

Menchar

[LuisG]

The bugs that are fixed in 8.5.1 are listed in the 8.5.1 readme.

If you can reproduce any of the problems that you're describing, we'll definitely be interested in taking a look at them. Feel free to attach here any projects that you might have that are needed to reproduce the problem. Or if you don't want to post them publicly, then submit them in ftp.ni.com\incoming.

Luis

[menchar]

That's great.  And where can I find the 8.5.1 readme?