A known bug without a fix until Delphi 2009 and then Delphi 2010. Hard to reproduce.
I believe in Delphi 2010 this bug has been finally squashed for good. Never seen it personally, but many have. A number of QC's about it and newsgroup posts. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:19 AM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > D2007 has been really solid, put it this way better than D5 which I also use > a lot, however in recent weeks I have managed to crash the IDE 3 or 4 > times - each time it looks like a trivial bug in an editing routine. > Triggered by either scrolling up, trying to insert a newline, > copy/paste......all pretty trivial stuff. > > A messagebox pops up - the latest was after pressing enter to insert a new > comment line... > > Assertion failed amount >= dest - startDest, file ek_filbuff.cpp, line 315 > > And of course each time I lose a small amount of editing work and have to > remember it.....this time fortunately I got a screenshot of what I had > written after the screen froze. > > In this case the IDE had probably been open for more than a week, although > the project not for long. > > Any ideas? > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe