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Ceniza:
There's something strange going on with my system...

A few weeks ago I decided to reinstall XP. I made a backup first including MinGW, Code::Blocks (binaries, sources and config files), etc.

I reinstalled the OS, SP2 and a few more programs I use. Restored MinGW, Code::Blocks and such. Code::Blocks ran without problems. I registered the file associations and everything seemed to be fine.

Now, I decided to download some code and clicked a .c file. Code::Blocks was opened but the file was not, and the explorer window I clicked the file from was not responding. I closed Code::Blocks, the explorer window worked again and it threw a nice message box, saying something like: "There was a problem sending the command to the program". WTF? I thought the DDE bug was fixed long ago. What's funny is that it works just fine if I open a .cbp or .workspace file, and it was working without problems before I decided to reinstall the OS.

Another interesting thing is that sometimes it crashes on exit blaming DDE somewhere (report attached).

Well, since I had SVN 3333 I decided to update to the latest version (3459) and compile it. Surprise! It fails just the same.

Recompiled wx 2.6.3, rebuilt Code::Blocks... same thing.

I just cannot get it. It was working... it should be working... but it is not.

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mandrav:
This is a known issue. What's weird is it only happens with source files. Double-clicking a project in explorer works just fine...

MortenMacFly:
Ceniza: Do you have another Editor/IDE installed (e.g. Visual Studio) that also tries to register the *.c/*.h (source file) extensions?
With regards, Morten.

Ceniza:
A known issue? Before I reinstalled XP it was working just fine with source files, projects and workspaces. So it's now strange I got it working before? :P

Morten: Right now I don't have any extra IDE installed, even though I had Dev-C++, Visual C++ 2005 Express, Visual MinGW and MingW Studio installed when it was working. Could it have anything to do with it? I don't really feel like installing VC++ again :(

mandrav:

--- Quote from: Ceniza on January 04, 2007, 11:35:27 pm ---A known issue? Before I reinstalled XP it was working just fine with source files, projects and workspaces. So it's now strange I got it working before? :P

--- End quote ---

Yes, it has appeared some time now. Although we changed nothing relevant, at least as far as I can tell. Could it be caused by a windows update?

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