.dsp file not loading anymore !!DESPERATE CASE!!

[lorenzociripenso]

Dear All,

i'm using VC++ to build a machine vision software. the software is build on a dialog based MFC application. I already got it to work smoothly until, last week when I tried to add more functions to one of my dialogs.
Suddenly the dialog editor started to make errors. I tried to turn the program down and restart it, but as i wanted to load the .dsp file. it didn't load. it did nothing at all. just open VC++. But without workspace. I tried to fix it for five days. And finaly I gave up. Today I started from my latest backup and what happend: same thing again!

Could it be that the dialog is overloaded with controls and variables (about 200, one video window), and for that it starts freaking out? but how can i make changes if i can not restore my workspace??

Thanks a lot for your Help!!!

Greetings from Thailand to the rest of the World!

Lorenz

 

[Cagliostro]

I think you should first open VisualStudio and after that do a File->Open

Ion Filipski

 

[lorenzociripenso]

Thanks, but i tried that for 5 days...

 

[lorenzociripenso]

OK. I have news:

I tryed to create a new workspace, by assembling all the files. When i open the resource file "MyProgram.rc" i get the messagebox "Out of Memory".
The problem isn't resolved when i restart my computer...

THANKS again!

Lorenz

 

[Cagliostro]

I think you too fiew enough HDD space

Ion Filipski

 

[lorenzociripenso]

thanks again. i tried to free some space on the disk. now i have more than one GB free. that should be enough. still the problem persists. i load the recource file and i get a messagebox "out of memory" when i shut down VC++, and try to start again the workspace isn't loading at all other workspaces have no problems.

it's really weired! is there a limit for dialog size?

thanks again.

 

[Cagliostro]

You can try to increase paged memory size. Right click on MyComputer on the desktop, choose properties->Advanced->PerformanceOptions and change... to other size. This is for NT systems(especially win2k). If it does not work, you should reinstall VS or upgrade your computer.

Ion Filipski

 

[lorenzociripenso]

OK. The page size is at 400 MB, should be enough. There is no point in reinstalling VC++ as all the earlier versions of the program still work fine and the error occures also on different computers with different OS.

Now I have two suspicions:
1. The dialog editor is overloaded with controls
2. Some irregularity in the new added controls make it unstable

Is one of these two possible?

Thank you!

 

[Cagliostro]

Since something is corruped, everything is possible. Try to see if you could open your project on other computer with VisualStudio. If yes, you sure need to reinstall.

Ion Filipski

 

[lorenzociripenso]

Hey! I found a solution in an other Forum now.
The Out of Memory MessageBox comes from the .clw file. This one seems to get to big and I understood it has something to do with the language settings of my dialogs. better to say, if i don't define the language of my dialogs, they make a mess!

Shure this explanation is not very good. But it should give others a hint if they incure to have the same problem...

Thanks a lot to IonFilipski

Cheers

 

[Skute]

The limit on a dialog box is 255, but you can still continue to add more items programmatically (in the WM_CREATE message). so their *technically* is no limit

Skute

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