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New FTS upload with global exception handler

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@...>

6/20/2002 8:28:43 PM

Hi Todd,

here is the upload again.

http://tunesmithy.co.uk/FTS_Beta_Preview_Setup.exe

Please go ahead and crash it if you can and
send the bug report!

I've done some more work on the exception handler
and it should be pretty much automatic now
- just keep holding down the shift key when you
click the buttons and it will make a debug
report, and then if you think you can reproduce
the bug again, you can make the debug log too
in the same way.

It will make a bug report e-mail to send
to me complete with the reports and the debug
log as attachments, plus your .ini file and
the startup_etc file, which is everything I
need to debug it as best as one can by remote debugging.

There's a fairly good chance of locating it
even straight away. In the past when I've
done this it has sometimes taken maybe
three downloads or four to fix it,
but this is more thorough. E.g I
have marked the entry points and exit
points of all the routines of any size
so that if it fails in one of those
I will know immediately, also I've marked
every fifty or so lines of code throughout
nearly all the program. But sometimes
even when you know where it is and stare
at those few lines of code to try to figure
it out you still can't see what is happening
and havae to do more work to figure it out.

Robert