DOpus is crashing on items dragged from Control Panel

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I have dragged many of the commonly used items, such as "Windows Update", from the Control Panel to one of my directories; I can use either DOpus or Windows Explorer for this task (and still can). Just recently — I'm not sure in which upgrade — DOpus crashes when I even select such a shortcut. If I'm quick, I can rightclick and perhaps read the properties, and it then stays selected, but if I then press Enter, DOpus crashes. The error message is:


This does not happen in Windows Explorer, which opens the link correctly, just as DOpus used to do. The shortcut's properties, by the way, include:
Target: [Greyed] Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update

My Start Menu also has the usual shortcut to Windows Update. This shortcut works properly in DOpus and in Windows Explorer, but of course its properties show that it is linked not with the Control Panel, but directly with the .exe file:
Target: %windir%\system32\wuapp.exe startmenu

Has something gone astray in a recent update of DOpus, or is my system on the blink?

2

Confirmed. You can work around it for now by turning off Preferences / Viewer / Viewer Pane / Display shell icons.

3

That was a quick diagnosis, Doctor Jon.

  • Confirming that with this switch on, and the Viewer off, there is no problem.
  • I only turned this switch on as an experiment a week or so ago, so the problem could have arisen at any time.
4

The option was added in the previous 11.5.1 beta from 10 days ago.

Sorry for the crash, and thanks for reporting it. We'll get it fixed for the next beta.

5

I have no idea whether the following crash is related to the crash above, but I'll put it into the same thread.

My bookmarks are in a directory structure. To select bookmarks in Firefox, I have a button with the single-line command:

Go {DlgFolder|Select a subdirectory of Bookmarks|%@Data%\DataForVallaHome\Favorites|Expand} Layout=HalfScreen%UserDomain%

I have copies of this button two places: once on my main non-floating toolbar, and once on a floating toolbar. The copy on the main non-floating toolbar works perfectly, and it also works if I omit the final "Layout=HalfScreen%UserDomain%".

When I use the copy on my floating toolbar, however, DOpus crashes (the button used to work). The selection screen comes up, but when I navigate to the directory that I want:

  • Pressing Enter does nothing,
  • RightCicking OK crashes DOpus, with error message, "The error (0xC0000005) occurred in thread 'dopus_dock' at address 0x000000013F5DCEF9." (For some reason, I can't Alt+PrintScrn the message this time.)
    If I omit the final "Layout=HalfScreen%UserDomain%", then occasionally the command works, but usually DOpus crashes. If I omit the "Expand", DOpus still crashes.
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Crash 1. With Version 11.5.3, DOpus is no longer crashing on items dragged from Control Panel. Thanks, Leo and Jon.

Crash 2. Interesting. The command works sometimes, and crashes DOpus at other times, but only when it is on a floating toolbar. I omitted the \ at the end of "Select a subdirectory of Bookmarks", but that didn't fix it. As a workaround, I have replaced the line by the two lines:

Prefs Layout=HalfScreen%UserDomain%
[{DlgFolder|Select a subdirectory of Bookmarks|%@Data%\DataForVallaHome\Favorites|Expand}]

on the floating toolbar. No crashes so far. The two crashes now seem unconnected, so they should perhaps be on separate threads.