Dialogbox crashes my program

[AWK]

Hi, let me start by telling you what I'm trying to do:

I'm creating an application in which I often use the dialogbox to allow the user to give a name to some item or file. It all works perfectly. I'm currently finishing the application and that is when I discovered the hickup. As you might know, in a normal file there are some forbidden characters. Here's a little list:

/ \ : * ? < > | '

I've discovered that, when I put one of these characters in an Editbox within the Dialogbox, it will crash the application when I exit through an Ok-button. Funny thing is that it crashes in two of the following three examples:

>exampletext (CRASH)
exampletext> (CRASH)
example>text (No Crash!!!)

It will crash at the moment I hit the button. No events after this will be processed. It just crashes immediately.

I discovered this bug when I was trying to anticipate on a user who would try to use one of those symbols in a filename. In a strange way that thought amuses me somewhat. But it's also a major bug for me. I've used dozens of these Dialogboxes throughout my application. And I really like them a lot. It's a great extension. One of my favorites!

Is it just a bug in the extension or might there be another explanation? I'd love to hear it!

[Jaffob]

Doesn't happen to me.

[Novabrain]

AWK, are you using the latest build, 248 --->

[AWK]

Yes, I'm using the latest build.

I have found a workaround that works for me though. I've changed the close-button to a 'normal' button and the Dialogbox is no longer Modal. When the button gets clicked, I copy the info from the Editbox to a Stringobject. Then I remove the text from the Editbox and then, finally, I can close the Dialogbox. No-one will know the difference, except me.

I also found out that the StringParser object wasn't quite able to do the job I wanted it to, so I had to create some extra events anyway. Now I have what I wanted and it seems to work fine.

I'm still curious though, to the nature of the crash I got. I have used the DialogBox quite often throughout my application and this crashing seems to happen in several of the others as well. The discribed workaround above, won't work everywhere. In several places I just need to use the Modal function.

So if anyone has any suggestions, I'm open for it!

[Yves]

Could you send me an application that crashes? I'll try to see what happens. Thanks!

[AWK]

This is so weird!

I opened the file today and the error had mysteriously vanished! Appearantly I should have restarted the computer before to solve this problem. Sorry for the upheaval!