Recently, users of Super-Nudelist have found that ProntoEdit or RC5000Setup crashes when they try to load their CCF files containing complete track lists for hundreds of discs. I finally got to the bottom of the problem today and, as it's not specific to Super-Nudelist, the solution may be useful for all Pronto users.
It's probably also something we should report to Philips. Is there a recommended way to do this?
Anyway, the crash happens because ProntoEdit overflows its stack. I can't work out exactly what causes this, but it seems to happen from having several hundred pages in the same device with many jumps on each page.
To attempt to solve this problem I've written a small utility which will patch the ProntoEdit / RC5000Setup executable to increase the allocated stack. (The equivalent of using EditBin but without having to have Visual C++ installed.)
At the moment this utility can be found here:
[Link: ox.compsoc.net]and here:
[Link: nudel.demon.co.uk]At the time of writing it only works for ProntoEdit 1.05 and 2.0. Once someone sends me an RC5000Setup executable I will update it to handle that as well. (Maybe it does already by the time you read this. :-))
Daniel, if you're reading, you're welcome to put a copy of the utility in the files section on RC if you like, although it might be best to wait until it's updated to handle RC5000Setup to save having to do it twice. Up to you!
