I've recently started using GCB again after many years layoff.
Synwrite is driving me crazy. It keeps locking up and dying so much I'm afraid to type more than three lines without doing a save. I've uninstalled, cleaned up, redownloaded the latest version an reinstalled several times with the same results. I'm using windows 10 home on a new laptop (two weeks old).
The problem seems to occur most when ending a line by using a function and then hitting the down arrow cursor key when done.
e.g. -- start a new file and the the following four lines-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"
cc="test"
Now move the cursor to the end of line 3 and type "+mid(aa,1)" and press the down arrow key to finish.
Everything worked fine and you can move the cursor around without a problem.
the file now looks like-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"+mid(aa,1)
cc="test"
Now move the cursor to the end of line 3 again and type "+mid(aa,2)" and press the down arrow key to finish.
you now have-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"+mid(aa,1)+mid(aa,2)
cc="test"
But when you try to move the cursor around with arrow keys, it gets stuck on line three so the the up or down arrow or the the enter key do not work any longer. Once it gets in this state, there's no recovery and it dies shortly thereafter.
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I tried this on win7 ultimate 32bit and win 10 pro 64bit without problems.
sorry can't help.
"new laptop (two weeks old)".........try a wireless mouse-so much better
Last edit: stan cartwright 2018-12-28
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I've been having the same problem as Jim for the past month or so. The IDE shuts down in the middle of writing code. When I reopen the IDE, the file I was working on does NOT show in the top bar where the files you are working on show up. Also, it does NOT show up in File > Recent files. I must go to File > Open to retrieve it.
I am using Windows 10.
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I thought I'd had this problem myself. I had been running GCB/SynWrite under WINE, on my Mac and I had been plagued with crashes. I got around it by disabling the AutoComplete options.
Anobium kindly posted a picture showing these options for SynWrite here: Anobiums picture
I also went into the SynWrite Directory and renamed the autocomplete and highlighting libraries from : GreatCowBasic.acp and GreatCowBasic.gcb to anything else. These are located under GCB@Syn > SynWrite > Data > autocomplete
This stopped what had become an almost hourly crash in SynWrite (under WINE) to no crashes at all.
Last edit: mkstevo 2018-12-29
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I've recently started using GCB again after many years layoff.
Synwrite is driving me crazy. It keeps locking up and dying so much I'm afraid to type more than three lines without doing a save. I've uninstalled, cleaned up, redownloaded the latest version an reinstalled several times with the same results. I'm using windows 10 home on a new laptop (two weeks old).
The problem seems to occur most when ending a line by using a function and then hitting the down arrow cursor key when done.
e.g. -- start a new file and the the following four lines-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"
cc="test"
Now move the cursor to the end of line 3 and type "+mid(aa,1)" and press the down arrow key to finish.
Everything worked fine and you can move the cursor around without a problem.
the file now looks like-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"+mid(aa,1)
cc="test"
Now move the cursor to the end of line 3 again and type "+mid(aa,2)" and press the down arrow key to finish.
you now have-
dim aa,bb,cc as string
aa="Test"
bb="isa"+mid(aa,1)+mid(aa,2)
cc="test"
But when you try to move the cursor around with arrow keys, it gets stuck on line three so the the up or down arrow or the the enter key do not work any longer. Once it gets in this state, there's no recovery and it dies shortly thereafter.
p.s. - I realize that line three may now be illegal, but the editor should still not hang up and die!
I tried this on win7 ultimate 32bit and win 10 pro 64bit without problems.
sorry can't help.
"new laptop (two weeks old)".........try a wireless mouse-so much better
Last edit: stan cartwright 2018-12-28
I've been having the same problem as Jim for the past month or so. The IDE shuts down in the middle of writing code. When I reopen the IDE, the file I was working on does NOT show in the top bar where the files you are working on show up. Also, it does NOT show up in File > Recent files. I must go to File > Open to retrieve it.
I am using Windows 10.
My experience, and, I use SYN.exe exclusivley, so my experience is not your expoerience. I very, very rarely do get crashes. I cannot reproduce.
But, over the years the issue, as reported to this Forum, does seems to relate to the Lex parser. For the life of me I do not know how to turn off!
:-)
I thought I'd had this problem myself. I had been running GCB/SynWrite under WINE, on my Mac and I had been plagued with crashes. I got around it by disabling the AutoComplete options.
Anobium kindly posted a picture showing these options for SynWrite here: Anobiums picture
I also went into the SynWrite Directory and renamed the autocomplete and highlighting libraries from : GreatCowBasic.acp and GreatCowBasic.gcb to anything else. These are located under GCB@Syn > SynWrite > Data > autocomplete
This stopped what had become an almost hourly crash in SynWrite (under WINE) to no crashes at all.
Last edit: mkstevo 2018-12-29
@MKStevo. I forgot!! Thank you
That worked, thanks much!