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Re: Codewright Failure

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On 2/16/2017 2:17 PM, rickman wrote:
> Newsgroups are my last ditch resource for bugs with old software.  I
> know Codewright is old and no longer supported.  But I have it and I'm
> not ready to switch.  Meanwhile, something happend while I was running
> in safe mode and now Codewright is messed up when running in standard
> windows mode.
>
> I can open files, but I can't select anything in them or do any edits. I
> can't even position the cursor with the mouse.  All the great chroma
> formatting is gone.
>
> Any ideas?  Is it finally time to bail on Codewright and switch to
> Emacs?  I tried that once and the initial Emacs screen scared me!  It
> was totally non-intuitive.

I'm a CW user too.  My version is 4.0e from 1996 (Win95 days).  Over the 
past year, I've seen my version having problems starting in 64-bit 
windows.  Occasionally it will self corrupt some of its binaries.  I 
keep a zip file of my entire CW32 tree, basically a known good restore 
archive.  When I suspect a corruption problem, I save the cwright.ini 
file somewhere else.  Then I delete the CW32 directory tree (safer to 
rename and delete later).  Then I unzip my restore archive and copy in 
the saved cwright.ini file only after I've verified that it's not 
corrupted too (which hasn't happened yet).  Then things always work.

Of course, you might be experiencing a different set of problems.  I 
hope I was able to help.

Now I digress:

My CW seems to have some problem starting with 64 bit windows.  It will 
just freeze on the splash screen.  I'd love to know why that happens. 
Experimenting with various compatibility modes doesn't solve the problem.

CW hates long directory paths and very long file names.  I am certain 
that long names cause internal memory corruption.  When it happens, CW 
reports an out-of-memory error and then disappears.  Sometimes after the 
same stressing, the edit windows show garbage and I need to restart it. 
I find I need to treat her gently occasionally.

I have a bunch of custom DLLs that I use that makes it hard to switch 
editors.  I haven't found an editor yet that gives me the same 
productivity I get with CW.  A 20 year relationship with an editor is 
hard to walk away from.

I acknowledge that there are many great editors with many advanced 
features.  But my productivity in keyboard-to-code is always way better 
with CW.

JJS

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Codewright Failure rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 17:17 -0500
  Re: Codewright Failure John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-16 18:18 -0800
    Re: Codewright Failure rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 21:36 -0500
      Re: Codewright Failure John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-02-17 10:11 -0800
      Re: Codewright Failure rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 15:40 -0400
        Re: Codewright Failure John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2017-03-24 12:54 -0700
          Re: Codewright Failure rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-24 16:10 -0400
            Re: Codewright Failure George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2017-03-24 22:50 -0400
              Re: Codewright Failure rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-03-25 15:39 -0400
                Re: Codewright Failure George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2017-03-26 04:55 -0400
                Re: Codewright Failure David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-27 10:05 +0200
                Re: Codewright Failure Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2017-03-27 14:27 +0300
                Re: Codewright Failure David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-03-27 14:01 +0200
                Re: Codewright Failure Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2017-03-27 19:41 +0300
  Re: Codewright Failure "David Eather" <eather@tpg.com.au> - 2017-02-18 23:12 +1000
  Re: Codewright Failure "David Eather" <eather@tpg.com.au> - 2017-02-18 23:13 +1000
  Re: Codewright Failure mrfirmware <mrfirmware@gmail.com> - 2017-03-22 09:32 -0700
  Re: Codewright Failure "roricka" <137631@EmbeddedRelated> - 2019-08-01 14:09 -0500
    Re: Codewright Failure Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-08-01 15:51 -0700
      Re: Codewright Failure Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-08-10 15:30 -0700
    Re: Codewright Failure John Speth <johnspeth@yahoo.com> - 2019-08-02 21:33 -0700
  Re: Codewright Failure quantumankh@gmail.com - 2020-02-09 22:17 -0800

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