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• Uberbox

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• uberbox 1.4.1

with xoblite bbox not compatible?
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Have you installed the MSVC7 RunTimes?

Extensive update, enhancement & bugfix from the never-finalised uberbox 1.3
What's New? - there's a LOT - read it carefully..... WARNING ALL BRANCHES: uberbox is resource heavy - recommended install basis - use bbKeys or bbInterface or menu commands for temporary load|unload
xoblite users - uberbox 1.4 will crash xoblite on a Reconfigure. Add the following bro@ms to your menu.rc - or to yout bbKeys.rc (changing the syntax) - so you can have a simple unload|reload sequence:

This is being uploaded to bb4win.sourceforge.

unkamunka... could you secretly be... Santa Claus?
It's all I ever wanted for christmas.

There is a bug that persists even in this latest version.

From what I can tell, once the history.rc file contains too many unique entries, it will cause bblean to crash and the plugin will fail to load. The magic number seems to be around 670 unique lines, but YMMV.

I've generated a dummy history file containing 670 unique lines that will cause the crash. It can be downloaded here.

That is why - in the current version - history.rc does not generate duplicate items. Thanks for doing the research into the "tipping point".

Not many users will generate 670 unique items. ATM there is a menu entry to edit history.rc (& thus scale back the size of the file). If there is sufficient demand, I will look at editing the code to limit the number of history.rc items.

Your welcome (sorry, I had not realized I wasn't logged in when I posted). I would suggest at least mentioning it as a known issue in the readme or release post. Or, if possible, have it crash gracefully with an error message or something.

Even if 670 unique items is rare (I've gotten there about 3 times in 8 months before 1.4, and half-way there now), when it eventually Does happen, there is no indication of what went wrong or how. It just looks like bblean crashed.

Anyone unfamiliar with this bug who encounters it will have to realize that a plugin is at fault, then take the time to disable all of the possible culprits in plugins.rc, then selectively enable them and try to run the shell to finally learn that Uberbox was at fault, then hopefully make the correct guess as to why and how to fix it.

For many users, especially the non-coders, that's a lot to ask. Most likely, they'll just stop using it. At least give the poor guys a head's up.


Sorry to harp on a negative, I really do like the plugin and your contributions to it.

i could't configurable the plugin via it's own configuration menu when i used bblean1.17 to load it.
and what i wanted was used bbinterface to creat a frame to load uberbox.dll, but i couldn't set it inslit,even i edit the BROAMBOX.RC to chang the var.

any suggestion???

TBH the Slit testing was done on xoblite's Slit.

It now seems that Broambox loads into any non-xoblite Slit - but not uberbox (including the earlier version).

I will try to look at this further when I get a chance.

The Slit Entry & History Size overflow bugs have now been fixed; also a minor enhancement to the drag & drop dialogue.

not found! is it need to create manuality? where is to place - $Blackbox$\ or plugins\uberbox ?
is oldest xoblite3 full works with it? i very happy to get more broams in the xob3


Yes I have - msvcr70.dll, msvcr71.dll, msvcr80.dll...

I understand there is an error -

broambox.rc is $Blackbox$\plugins\uberbox\uberbox.rc ?

Correct.