I was programming along tonight, working on some printer code, when I started
getting a bunch of "Printing in progress" exceptions. This didn't make any
sense, but I figured I"d screwed something up in the code.

Since they continued after using Alt-F2 to terminate the program, I assumed
something had gone funny in C++Builder, so I shut it down, shut down Windows,
and turned the computer off. (Actually, it turned itself off with its magical
power management system.)

I then turned it back on, and now the C++Builder IDE won't run at all. I
double-click on the icon, the splash and the main window bar show up, then
there's a dialog box - in which I can only read the title, "Error" - and then
it, and the main window bar thing disappear and Builder exits.

I already tried re-installing; the next thing I'll try is an un-install,
followed by a clean installation. And I'll clean all the junk I can still find
in the Registry out in between, too.

But does anyone have any real information about this? Suggestions? Is there a
error log file somewhere I could go look at?

Help!

Walt

(PS - as you might expect, I'm a bit busy trying to figure this out to monitor
this group on an onging basis. If you could at least CC via email, I'd sure
appreciate it!)

Well, the uninstall-reboot-reinstall seems to have solved the problem.

But I'd still sure like to know what the @#$% problem _was_.

This is some weird shit sometimes.

Walt

Walt,

I saw BCB completely trash a laptop computer which did not have enough
memory -- if the same thing happened to you as to one of my associates, you
may very well have to reinstall Windows.  Nice, huh?  I am told that you
can prevent future occurences by created a large permanent swap file.
Hopefully you can get away with just reinstalling BCB.

Regards,
Richard Ulrich

Walt Dexter <wdex...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
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Fortunately, re-installing BCB solved the problem. The "Printing in progress"
exceptions were because I was changing Printer->Orientation after a
Printer->BeginDoc. Wouldn't think that should kill the IDE, though. Maybe with
this dumb printer driver; the one for my DeskJet 672C seems to die from time to
time on its own.

Then, the next day, I had to re-install again because BCB decided to stop
displaying the component palette, and I couldn't figure out how to get it back.

So far as memory, surely 80M should be enough.....

Thanks,

Walt

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