BUG: terminate it in an unusual way

[Chris]

Does the latest beta (07 beta 6) solve the issue?

[Chris]

Abi just emailed me, telling that the problem was gone.

The initialization of the language sample strings in the language dialog (menu options -> stackz options, language tab) involved a conversion from their stored non-unicode encoding to the displayed unicode encoding. This conversion mysteriously fails on a few computers with the new version, although it worked fine on the same computers in the old version.

Stackz did not correctly handle the failure of this erroneous conversion, which caused the "close in an unusual way" problem.

Now the erroneous conversion is not leading to a crash anymore, but the reason for the error is still unknown - it might be due to some other problem that will show up in a different place...

You can check if your installation has this problem by inspecting the language sample texts in the language dialog. If one of these displays the text "conversion error", then the conversion for some reason did fail on your system.

[kanemiya]

I just removed beta 5 and installed beta 6 and it now opens fine.  I will start experimenting with this version and see how it works on my machine.  I already like the look and some of the new features that I have tried so far.  I am getting some dictionary errors, but will make sure that I have the paths and settings are correct and see what happens.  Thanks for all of your work.

Paul King