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New Alt.Binz versions => Bugs => Fixed bugs => Topic started by: Rekrul on January 16, 2007, 04:14:56 am

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Rekrul on January 16, 2007, 04:14:56 am

I have been using Agent to browse the newsgroups and Binary News Reaper 2 to download using NZB files under Windows 98SE. BNR2 is kind of flakey, so I'm always on the lookout for something easier to use. I just learned about Altbinz tonight and decided to give it a try.

I downloaded the latest version, unpacked it to a directory and double-clicked the EXE file. All seemed well and I clicked on the setup icon and proceeded to configure the program. I had no problems until I went to the Interface section. One of the options was to have the toolbar use icons and text, icons only or text only. I decided to move the config window to get a better look at the toolbar and Altbinz promptly crashed my system. There was no error, and I could still move the mouse, but nothing else would respond. I couldn't even bring up the Task Manager. I rebooted and attemped to run Altbinz again, but I immediately got a big error message with two buttons, Close and Ignore. I clicked the Close button, and Windows told me that the program had caused an illegal operation. I clicked the button and again my system froze, except for the mouse pointer.

I rebooted again, deleted the entire contents of the directory, then unpacked a fresh copy of Altbinz from the archive. Same result.

At this point I decided that Altbinz wasn't stable enough to warrant trying to get it to work again. For all the problems that BNR2 has given me, it has never crashed my system.

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Sc0tTy on January 16, 2007, 07:02:22 am

could you post some screenshots ? so we could remove the bug

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Rekrul on January 16, 2007, 10:23:18 am

Quote from: "Sc0tTy"

could you post some screenshots ? so we could remove the bug

The best I can do is to post a photo of the screen taken with a digital camera. When Altbinz crashes, nothing works other than the mouse pointer. Meaning I can move it around the screen, but nothing will respond to it.

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Hecks on January 16, 2007, 05:27:29 pm

Something similar happens when altbinz is run in Compatability mode with visual themes disabled under XP/MCE 2005.

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Rdl on January 16, 2007, 06:46:51 pm

I pressume it's some incompatibility with Win98. Will try it and fix it If I can

Title: v0.23.2 doesn't work
Post by: Rekrul on January 17, 2007, 11:56:14 am

I was going to take a snapshot of the screen using a camera, but when I ran it again, it just crashed with no message. I'll check again if you release a fixed version, but for now, I'm deleting it.