Unexpected Quit in Duplicated Assembly

Problem

Duplicate an Assembly, then immediately use it as an item in an Estimate. Bad address error.

Diagnosis

They duplicated an Assembly and then used it. Unexpected quit or bad address error.

Solution

There was a couple of subtle bugs in Goldenseal construction estimating software versions 2.3 and earlier that can cause 'unexpected quit' errors when working in an assembly record that was recently duplicated.

The workaround is to close the window after duplicating the record, then reopen it.

NOTE-- the problem is that the table still has a reference to the previous assembly. Goldenseal keeps it in memory for a while so it usually won't causes a problem, but if something causes a purge of the previous record, there will be a quit when the table tries to access an Assembly object that no longer exists in RAM.

Versions 2.4 and later of Goldenseal estimating software won't have this problem.

Comments

Entered 5/28/03 by Casey. Updated 11/3/2010.