Access violation error when I open the Gixen Desktop Manage

[frankb1290]

Hello Mario,

I've been using Gixen from your web page for a year or so. Congratulations for your great little application.

Today I have downloaded & run the GDM for the first time, on order to get the highest bids actualized on real time.
I use Windows XP SP3 (I believe) and won't "upgrade" any time soon.

When I call GDM, I always get the following warning, twice:
Access violation at address 00... in module 'GixenDesktopManager.exe' Read of address 00000000.

After those warnings GSM works all right, or so it seems to me.

What are those "access violations" and how do I get rid of the annoying warnings?

Thanks in advance,

Frank

[Cupid]

Well, it looks like it is de-referencing a Null pointer, but why it does that for you and no-one else is a mystery... is frankb1290 your eBay id?... Maybe Mario can try it as you and see if he can reproduce the error.

Did/do you get that error before or after it prompts you for your eBay id and password?
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Mark

[frankb1290]

Hello Mark,

Excuse my late answer to your reply, that I saw only today.
I expected the Gixen forum to warn me with an email when and if someone replied to my post, but got none therefore I thought nobody did.
Now I realize that Gixen has not my email address in the first place.

<< Well, it looks like it is de-referencing a Null pointer >>
If you say so...

<< but why it does that for you and no-one else is a mystery. >>
Perhaps because other people who got the same warning thought that the Gixen Manager would not run on their systems and left it at that.

<< is frankb1290 your eBay id? >>
Yes.

<< Maybe Mario can try it as you and see if he can reproduce the error.>>
Well, if I am the only one who has reported this bug (either Gixen's or Windows') then I would not care.

<< Did/do you get that error before or after it prompts you for your eBay id and password? >>
GDM produces the error warning twice each time after the program starts, but does not prompt for those data.

Frank

[Cupid]

Hi Frank,

Since it does not ask you for your credentials presumably you have asked for it to save them so that there is no need to prompt at start up?

As a test maybe you could remove the gixen.ini file in the same directory that you are running the application from... and then start it again... that way it should prompt again for those credentials when you start it up... and then report back when and if you get the errors that you reported again.
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Mark

[Gixen]

[mario]

I remember the "null pointer" problem being reported only one other time. I have no idea what is causing it in your case.

[frankb1290]

To Mark:

<< ... presumably you have asked for it to save them ... ?>>
Yes, I did that.

<< As a test maybe you could remove the gixen.ini file ... and then start it again... that way it should prompt again for those credentials...>>
Correct, I just did that again.

<< and then report back when and if you get the errors that you reported again. >>
Yes, same error again.
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To Mario:

<< I remember the "null pointer" problem being reported only one other time.>>
Ah, there nothing new under the sun after all.

<< I have no idea what is causing it in your case. >>
Do you also remember what was the reason in that former instance?
Anyway, as I said before if nobody else complains about this bug, it cannot be important.

May I ask where do you come from, Mario?

Frank

[Cupid]

[frankb1290]

Mark,

<< When did it come up?... Before or after you entered your credentials? >>
Before.

<< it would be nice to work it out >>
All right, I will certainly collaborate to that purpose.
Where do we begin? I have no idea.

Frank

[Cupid]

[frankb1290]

Good evening, Mark,

I'd swear that I wrote & sent an answer days ago but I cannot seen it in the forum, so here goes it again.

<< it evidently has nothing to do with your account >>
Correct.

<< So that points to it being to do with the set up of your computer. >>
That's it.

<< but I think Mario already has a Windows XP SP3 system and it evidently doesn't happen on that. >>
Yes, there must be dozens if not hundreds of people using GDM on Windows XP who have not complained. However there are so many different settings, "services" and so on, that the source of my error could still be very much Windows-dependent.

<< [debugging] ... I don't know if it is worth going to that much effort ... which I think is what you have said? >>
Well, that's an understatement of my own dismisal of the problem. I mean, I think it is NOT worth-while to track & solve this unimportant bug.

What I would do instead if I were Mario, is to add a "refresh" buttom to the web Gixen, so that current bids are actualized. I know this desirable feature has been discussed before but cannot understand the reason why it is not implemented.

Frank

[Cupid]