I've done some troubleshooting to try to help Paul isolate a "pattern" of crashes when using Alt-S save, since he indicated that after modifying some code, the issue seemed to be resolved in the beta testing. I have discovered that DX4WIN consistently crashes if I attempt to do an Alt-S save BEFORE doing a menu save using File/Save. If I first save through the menu, then Alt-S will not crash DX4WIN on repeated subsequent saves.
In response to Guy ON4AOI's post about it only crashing under Windows 2000 and Windows XP Home Edition, I am running Windows XP Pro (not Home Edition) with all updates on a Dell 2.40 GHz machine with 512 MB RAM, using NTFS file system. I definitely have the under WinXP Pro. I have tried disabling antivirus, backup programs, messenging, and other programs and processes running in the background, and that has not resolved the crashing. I have also tried closing DX4WIN windows, including World Map, packet spots, sunrise/sunset, logbook, and country, zone, and state statistics. Still the program consistently crashes when I do an Alt-S before doing a menu Save using the drop-down menu. If I do one menu Save, then repeated Alt-S saves work as designed. I hope this helps Paul isolate the cause, and in the meantime, maybe others who have observed this issue can see if first doing the menu Save will avoid Alt-S crashes on their machines as well. 73, Cliff K0CA
