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Resolved PowerBuilder and UltraEdit

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  1. Chris Victor
    Chris Victor
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  3. Saturday, 1 July 2023 01:21 AM UTC

Does anyone else have issues with the PowerBuilder IDE and UltraEdit not playing well together? For years, I have been unable to run my app from the PB IDE more than once. On second attempts to run the app from the same IDE session, it crashes and I have to restart the PB IDE. I just got used to it and put up with it.

Back in December 2022, my company gave me a new laptop. I was unable to install UltraEdit right away due to a licensing issue and PB was glorious. I could run our app from the PB IDE as many times as I wanted just like grown up PowerBuilder developers. Then when the UltraEdit licensing issue was resolved and I installed it, back to the crashing when attempting to run my app from the same PB IDE session on second attempts.

I stepped through it in debug mode once and found it is crashing inside a 3rd Party encryption tool (Password Protection Professional, or "PPP") that is ancient, its original development house long since gone out of business. I suppose it could be any combo of the three (PowerBuilder, UltraEdit, PPP) so I was just wondering if anybody else has had a similar experience or is it just me? (we are PB 2019 Build 2170 on Windows 10 v22h2)

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Miguel Leeuwe
Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Saturday, 1 July 2023 02:49 AM UTC
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Back in the nineties, there was a PB version that would crash with MS Word 2.0. Depending on which of the 2 programs was opened first, PB would crash.

It turned out to be some kind of bug, where PB didn't protect it's memory well or something like that.

I'm not saying that this is the same, but does it happen when you first open up UltraEdit and then PB, or vice versa, or independently?

regards,

MiguelL

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Chris Victor
  1. Chris Victor
  2. Monday, 3 July 2023 21:26 PM UTC
Thank you for responding. No, it makes no difference which one is opened first. In fact, i don't even have to run UltraEdit at all for PB to crash on the second Run App. I just know it started doing it after I installed UltraEdit. It's not a huge deal because, sadly, we're sunsetting our 24 year old PB app sometime next year. I was just hoping somebody else might have run into the exact same issue and solved it with a simple tweak. Never works out that way, does it.
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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Monday, 3 July 2023 21:43 PM UTC
Well, if it's just for a year, you can always use Notepad++ instead of UltraEdit for that period of time.

regards
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Roland Smith
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  1. Sunday, 2 July 2023 04:49 AM UTC
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PB 2022 has a built-in crypto object. You can also use my Bcrypt example: https://www.topwizprogramming.com/freecode_bcrypt.html

 

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Chris Victor
  1. Chris Victor
  2. Monday, 3 July 2023 21:31 PM UTC
Thank you for responding. (Love your stuff, btw) Unfortunately, modifying the code to use some other crypto object is out of the question because we're sunsetting the app next year - mgmt doesn't want to expend any resources on our trusty old PB Classic code. It's being replaced by some new hotness.
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