Very Weird Bug

[Pino Farese <gfarese at ssebbs dot com>]

Hello:

I just release the version 2.0 of my application: Forms To Go, and I'm
having a very strange, hard to reproduce and weird bug.

A small group of users: Mac OS X and WinXP are reporting that after double
clicking the application to open it, it closes immediatly, with a NIL Object
Exception Error. This was not happening with previous versions of my
software, that used the same program

I modified the OPEN event of APP, and included an Exception Block in order
to discover where the NIL Object Exception was coming from.

I discovered the problem is when I try to open the main Window of the
program because users are reporting the error # 003

==============

 wFormsToGo = new WinFormsToGo
  
 wFormsToGo.Show
  
 Exception err

  if err IsA NilObjectException then

     if wFormsToGo = nil then
      MsgBox "FATAL ERROR # 003 - Please report"
     else
      MsgBox "FATAL ERROR # 004 - Please report"
     end if

  else

     MsgBox "FATA ERROR # 005 - Please report"

  end if

==============

I'm working on a PowerBook Titanium 800 Mhz, 512 MB Ram with OS X 10.3.1.

I was using RealBasic 5.2.2 and then upgraded to RealBasic 5.2.4 and
rebuilt, but the problem persists.

I haven't been able to reproduce the problem on my Mac, not even on 7 iMacs
I've in my office with OS X 10.2

Also, I ran the program on a Windows XP Professional I have in my office and
couldn't get it to fail.

But the truth is that about 10 users have reported this problem so far, 3 of
them using Mac OS X 10.3.1, 5 using Windows XP Professional and 2 using
Windows XP Home.


Thanks for any help



Giuseppe Farese


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