Crash when using batch rename and inserting placeholders

[Lupin III.]

XnView 1.90.3 (as did version 1.82.4) crashes when using the batch rename function on the following occasion:
Browse a folder and select some files, use tools -> batch rename. The "name template" must not be selected. If it already is, uncheck it, click cancel, open the window again. It should be unchecked and the textfield and insert button should be disabled. Select the "name template" checkbox and immediatly afterwards click "insert" (especially don't click into the textfield) and select any tag. The program should crash now.

It's easy to avoid, if you know how, and not really a big issue, but it took me some tries to get it working the first time I used the function (where the checkbox was unchecked).

[helmut]

I've tried to reproduce the problem, but it did not crash.

On which OS (Windows XP, ...) do you work?
What type of files do you use for batch renaming?
Does it crash with any placeholder?

(XnView 1.90.3 on Windows XP SP2)

[Guest]

I'm using xnview 1.90.3 on WinXP SP1. It doesn't matter which filetypes are selected. It crashes on JPGs, PNGs, GIFs, PDFs. And it crashes for any placeholder.

[xnview]

I'm using xnview 1.90.3 on WinXP SP1. It doesn't matter which filetypes are selected. It crashes on JPGs, PNGs, GIFs, PDFs. And it crashes for any placeholder.

Very strange, when you click on Rename? Even if you select 2 files?

[Lupin III.]

Very strange, when you click on Rename? Even if you select 2 files?

No, it already crashes as soon as I select any placeholder (e. g. "Filename", "Size", "Exif-Image -> Date taken") from the popup list after clicking on insert. It doesn't matter how many files are selected, how they are named, where they are in the list, (although at least one has to selected of course to enable the menu entry). I can reproduce the bug every time.

[xnview]

Very strange, when you click on Rename? Even if you select 2 files?

No, it already crashes as soon as I select any placeholder (e. g. "Filename", "Size", "Exif-Image -> Date taken") from the popup list after clicking on insert. It doesn't matter how many files are selected, how they are named, where they are in the list, (although at least one has to selected of course to enable the menu entry). I can reproduce the bug every time.

Could you post a screenshot of the dialog before the crash?

[Lupin III.]

I have rarely done UI pro-gramm-ing outside of HTML pages, but if there is a bug, I would expect it where the new template token is concatenated to the existing one.

[Guest]

Maybe it's something like "oldstring.concat(newstring)", which seems to be undefined. But it's still a mystery to me, why it only happens to me.
The windows (german) message is: "Die Anweisung in 0x004c370b verweist auf Speicher 0x00131000. Der Vorgang read konnte nicht auf dem Speicher durchgeführt werden"


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[Lupin III.]

Could you post a screenshot of the dialog before the crash?

How can I post screenshots? I created an account for this forum now, but there's no possibility to add an image.

btw. the spam word was "pro-gram-ming" in the previous post. That's why there are dashes in it now, even as registered user it wouldn't let me post it. Why is this on a spam list?

[Clo]

—> Lupin III.

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[Lupin III.]

Could you post a screenshot of the dialog before the crash?

Before the click (on the highlighted item):



One click after:

[helmut]

I could not reproduce this problem. (Windows XP SP2, XnView 1.90.3).

Could you please rename your xnview.ini file so that XnView starts with default settings? (I guess this is a problem of installation and/or .ini settings).

[Lupin III.]

Yes, this did it. In my old config all Template# entries in the "Rename" section were empty. Now it at least starts with "name-#".
After clearing all the template entries in the ini-file xnview crashes like described. I don't know why all entries were empty, didn't do this by hand.

[marsh]

Yes, this did it. In my old config all Template# entries in the "Rename" section were empty. Now it at least starts with "name-#".
After clearing all the template entries in the ini-file xnview crashes like described. I don't know why all entries were empty, didn't do this by hand.

Confirmed. I can recreate problem only by clearing all the template entries in ini file and setting the 'use template' entry to 0 there also!

[helmut]

Yes, this did it. In my old config all Template# entries in the "Rename" section were empty. Now it at least starts with "name-#".
After clearing all the template entries in the ini-file xnview crashes like described. I don't know why all entries were empty, didn't do this by hand.

Good to read that it no longer crashes. Could you please send your old xnview.ini file (which caused the crash) to (Pierre)? He might make XnView more robust with handling those .ini values.