#16 Crash even after re-install

[Anonymous]

First: Nice tool...as an old, old UNIX programmer, I'm
happy to see regular expressions creeping into Windows.

I installed v2.0.3.0(beta) on XPsp1, played a little,
crashed it, restarted, played some more, crash it again,
then could not restart--I got an exception before it
would display its form. Finally I Add/Remove'd it and
reinstalled, but _still_ got the exception. Decided to
check for leftovers under Program Files and found it had
not removed its subtree (not polite). So I deleted the
subtree, installed again, and it worked.

Apparently the last crash left one of the config files in a
state that the startup could not tolerate, and uninstall
left the problem behind. I lost the message from CLR
Debugger (sorry), but it was something like "Unhandled
exception in ....SDK.AppSomething".

In a similar vein, after the successful reinstall the
window opened with its last size/arrangement,
suggesting that registry entries are not cleaned up by
uninstall, either.

Mark
davison@ccs4vms.com

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Thanks Mark, for the comment. I had the same problem
today. I used the RegExLib search feature to find a regular
expression for street address validation. There was a
particularly long one that I loaded. In the comments for the
expression, in the source window, was a link to the USPS.gov
site, for a list of valid state abbreviations. I used my mouse
to highlight the URL, pressed Ctrl-C to copy it, and
WHAMMO! It crashed! Couldn't restart the app, even after
uninstall and re-install.

All I get is a splash screen, then this error, which you
partially referenced:

An unhandled exception ('System.TypeInitialization
Exception') occurred in Regulator.exe [5044].

If I stepped into Debug (no source, of course), it had this
added nugget:

The type initializer for "Regulator.SDK.AppContext" threw an
exception.

Hopefully this will help Roy isolate the cause and make a
great product even more stable. I'll go try your tip now of
deleting the stranded tree under the PF directory.

Troy Whistman
troy@whistman.com

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The errormessage is this:

Regulator.exe - common Language Runtime Debugging
Services
Application has generated an exception that could not be
handled.
Process id=0xaa4 (2724), Thread id=0x8c8 (2248).
Click OK to terminate the application.
Click CANCEL to debug the application.
...

Indeed:
The repair option of setup.exe didn't solve the problem
I had to uninstall and completely remove the install directory
So probably some bad or unfinished data was written to the
three files that
are being left after uninstalling : I believe editor.config,
quickmenu.config and a third file (don't remember).