"John Covele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:68498@palm-dev-forum... > > Many thanks to all those who offered suggestions for my problem with a crash > during startup when opening a CW8 project. It turns out that I was > accidentally launching the OLD CW7 IDE and trying to open the new project > with it. It works fine when I use the latest IDE (4.2.5). > > While I can live with this, it would be nice if the IDE simply ignored a > project that was too new, instead of crashing. I think most people probably > don't delete the old IDE right away when upgrading, and when you > double-click a project you just might launch the old IDE...
This is a special case -- there was a bug in the 4.1 and older IDEs which cause them to crash on newer files. In the general case, an older IDE will see a new project and ask you to revert the newer settings to its defaults. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
