[GEM-dev] crash on exit (if gemwin ever opened) in windows (wacom!?)

[cyrille henry]

matteo sisti sette a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On SOME windows machines, every time I close PD (with gem), if a
> gemwin has ever been opened (no matter whether it is open at the time
> I close PD), pd crashes with the message:
> 
> "Instruction at ... referenced memory at ....; the memory cannot be read".
> 
> And it gives the message three times (i.e. i have to hit OK three
> times) before pd finally closes.
> 
> Now I read this:
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2003-11/015207.html and I
> realise that it systematically happens on those machines which have a
> wacom tablet driver installed. I never use the wacom with GEM so I
> would never have realized there was a correlation, but it is
> definitely so.
> 
> The question is: this problem is known since 2003: is there any
> fix/workaround? 
as far as i remember, i used to comment the line that cause this error, and recompile Gem.
i think i send later a mail that says which is the line...
but i also remember that this error cause only 1 error message, not 3.


>(apart uninstalling the tablet but i do need it even
> if not in gem)
> It is SO annoying to have to close the error message three times every
> time I want to restart PD!!!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> m.