Windows 7 standalone app crash (solved)

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Steve Denney
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Windows 7 standalone app crash (solved)

Post by Steve Denney » Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:27 am

Hi, I had a problem with an app crashing with windows 7, 64 bit.
The app worked fine in the IDE but would intermittently crash once built. Sometimes it’d work, sometimes not, the app usually failed when it attempted to access an ODBC database (BTW although this a version of the app described in a recent database post -- ODBC to SQL server 2005 crashes livecode -- this does not relate to that earlier issue).
The problem was solved by running the app in Windows XP compatibility mode. Users set this by right clicking the app, then selecting: properties -> the compatibility tab -> Windows XP compatibility mode checkbox. (NB this is NOT the downloadable Windows XP Mode which is the actual XP OS).
Just in case anyone else runs into this...
Steve
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