Thank you, Ton! I was so used to my older sim I had no idea it was preserving my simulated device state when I didn't use Storage->x.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton van Overbeek Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:27 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Frequent Simulator crashes? On 2006-06-07, Stefan Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone else had problems with the Palm OS 5-5.4 sim crashing > constantly? I'm having a devil of a time debugging because it simply > won't stay alive for very long, and it's not the app I'm developing, as > the sim will die before the app has been loaded on. It seems to give a > fatal exception (winxp) most times I load from a saved session > (Storage->Load) and generally just at stupid, random intervals. > Using Storage->Save and Storage->Load is almost a sure recipe for instability. All built-in programs in the 5.x simulators are implemented as dll's. When you reload a previously saved storage file it only works if all dll's are located at the same position in (virtual) memory. Very often this is not the case due to different/other programs running than when you saved the storage file. Anyway, if the dll's are not at the same location -> crash. With the simulators for NVFS devices (T5, TX, LifeDrive, etc.) there is much less need to use the save/restore memory feature The NVFS is simulated with the SimSlotDriverVolume file. It is a pity that all simulators (except the recent Treo 700p simulator) store this file at the same location (C:\PALM\SimSlotDriverVolume) making running multiple OS 5.x device simulators a pain. HTH Ton van Overbeek -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
