Re: Can't go back to 2007r3 after installing 2008r4

["Carlos M" <rblists@rbtips.com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
> On 29-Sep-08, at 6:42 PM, Carlos M wrote:
>
>> Norman,
>> So, why didn't RS just stored the new (or corrected) registry keys
>> into a new folder starting with 2008r4 and left the "old" registry
>> keys in place for the previous versions?
>
> I have no idea
> This was done between 2007r3 and 2007r4; long before I got there

Ohh... I thought from the OP and William's reply that the problem was
introduced with 2008r4 - sorry for that Norman ;-)

Let me check the previous release notes...

Yes, you're right - it was introduced in 2007r4 and there was an entry
for the 2007r5 release notes:
[Kis] [IDE] N/A: The 2007r4 and 2007r5 IDEs on Windows write out the
            debugger preferences in such a way that older versions of
            REALbasic cannot read them in without crashing.  If you run
            a copy of 2007r4 or r5 and debug an application, there are
            empty REG_SZ registry keys written out to
            HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\REALSoftware\REALbasic with names
            like Debugger Object Property View Style (XXX), where XXX is
            the name of an object property.  These empty string keys are
            what cause the older IDEs to crash, and so they should be
            removed from the registry if you wish to use 2007r3 or
            earlier.  Report ID: uhdboosz

I even have a self note on the 2007r5 folder to not test/use any new
version due to this problem and wait to see if it is fixed or not...
it seems it was not fixed... and I forgot completely about this note
:(

Anyway, and not knowing exactly how previous versions read the
registry, can't this be fixed if these "debugger preferences" are
stored into a folder that previous versions didn't read, maybe
"REALbasicDebug" instead of the default "REALbasic"?

Carlos

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