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mhw

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Simulator crash
« on: June 05, 2017, 04:01:20 PM »
I get the attached message every time I try to open the SIM. Reboot provided no joy. What should I try?
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2017, 04:09:19 PM »
Delete the following files from the Bin directory where the Sim lives:
1. DmSim.FLASH
2. DmSim.DAT
3. DmSim.STATE

If that doesn't work, it might be related to the serial port simulation.
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2017, 04:19:23 PM »
That got it working again. Thanks for the quick response.

Was that caused by something that I did wrong?
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2017, 04:24:12 PM »
Quote from: mhw on June 05, 2017, 04:19:23 PM
Was that caused by something that I did wrong?

Hard to know. I guess I should have suggested that you send us a copy of the files, and we could dig around to figure out what went wrong. If you still have them, we're happy to do that.
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2017, 08:56:03 PM »
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If you still have them, we're happy to do that.
I emailed them if you want to take a look.
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2017, 09:05:32 PM »
Quote from: mhw on June 05, 2017, 08:56:03 PM
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If you still have them, we're happy to do that.
I emailed them if you want to take a look.

To support@hosteng.com? We'll take a look tomorrow.
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2017, 10:01:22 AM »
Well, sadly that didn't help. It came up and ran fine for me.
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Re: Simulator crash
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2017, 05:34:52 PM »
This came up back in April on AD's forum.

Following the steps in Post 13 I can STILL get the sim to crash. It does seem to be very dependant on the exact sequence it is started. Since I am pretty inconsistent about how I start the sim, I bump into it now and again. See here starting at post 10

https://forum.automationdirect.com/forum/general-applications/105578-peerlink-addressing

And the steps are:

Open DmD, double click on Links:MySim
If it's going to work it will open just fine. If not, it crashes.

Assuming it opened fine, "X" DmD's window and respond Don't Save. Close DmSim also now.

Open DmD, double click on Links:MySim It will crash.

Now to make it run, in Launchpad, double click Run: Do-more Simulator. Now double click on MySim, Hunky-Dory.

I think it depends on the program in the simulator the last time it was closed since I know I can get the first step to work OK most of the time and I rarely clear the simulator memory.
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