Re: [TSVN] Re: Problem with the Bulgarian language pack ("Crashreport for TortoiseMerge : 1, 0, 7, 1412")

Boris wrote:

> Maybe this is not related to the problem you have, but I had some problems
> running ResText on Win2K3. I did some research, and that led me to this page
> on the MSDN web site.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833659

Wow. That's _exactly_ the problem I have! And I was trying to find a bug
in ResText for three hours...

> The problem on my machine was that for example after the second call to
> UpdateResource inside of the ParseString method, the EndUpdateResource would
> fail. Commenting out the second UpdateResource call would fix the problem,
> but then the language ID would stay unchanged (1033).
> This was somehow random. The effect of this failure would be corrupted
> resource image (with missing resources). Running ResText on machine with the
> newer Kernel32.dll was working fine.
>
> I'm not sure if this has to do anything with your "missing resources" issue,
> but maybe it's just something that can be helpful.

The "fixed" language packs have now the language ID unchanged (1033) -
that's the only way I could get ResText to work without loosing
resources. So yes, the KB article you mentioned is definitely the reason
for this corrupted languagepacks.

Stefean

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Received on Wed Jul 21 08:23:33 2004