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Re: Codewright Failure

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On 2/16/2017 9:36 PM, rickman wrote:
> On 2/16/2017 9:18 PM, John Speth wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I've got the latest, 7.5.  You used to be able to find it on the web
> because it was orphaned.  But it seems someone bought the rights and is
> selling it for $300+.  Not sure who would be buying it, but it was
> popular with mainframe support people (meaning it was sold with their
> other tools so they just bought it too) and maybe there are still those
> who just buy the package in order to support some ancient systems
> (meaning 20 years old).
>
> If you'd like to update to 7.5, contact me offline.  redsp@yahoo.com.
> I'm in the middle of a web site port... a terrible time for my editor to
> be down.  I may need to dig out my backups.

Things aren't looking so good for Codewright.  I figured my issue was 
file corruption, so I finally dug up my old laptop disk.  I copied the 
CW directory over to the new laptop and it runs the same.  So I guess 
the problem is in the registry maybe?  Anyone know how to figure that out?

-- 

Rick C

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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

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