"The Thinking Man's Thesaurus" Error When Launching Works When Ignoring (Recently Cropped-Up)

[alienfxfiend]

ththes13.zip

I get an 'Interrupt' error recently when opening "The Thinking Man's Thesaurus" —it was working perfectly before yesterday when I got some Cumulative Windows 10 update & a .NET 5 update (maybe that's the 'cause ?) […] I don't understand —can it be fixed please ?! When I click continue it loads normally (I noticed the cipboard gets auto-pasted maybe it corrupts the app ?), also it only occurs /w the taskbar-pinned shortcut (/w a custom icon) not when I run THES.EXE via a Launcher app ("Everything" by voidtools), I'm thinking maybe it's a prob /w my .ini file ? I opened it & Use Single Processor was disabled, I had it use only one Processor before to avoid errors. It was working w/o a hitch a few days ago, I had enabled HIPS (Host Intrusion Protection System) on Comodo Internet Security Premium but now I have it disabled, so it couldn't be that —I get the latest version from AppVeyor.

P.S: It's a tiny app /w no setup runs directly /w THES.EXE.

[alienfxfiend]

Nevermind "ForceSingleProcessor=1" somehow got disabled again, I will test again & see if it's resolved. Sorry for taking your time.

[alienfxfiend]

The new OTVDM Heap corruption in OLE certainly improves loadtimes as that of Win 3.11 under DOSBox but sometimes I get an interrupt error (the app automatically enters clipboard text on loading) & sometimes it causes problems —please try to fix the issue, I get a block symbol in the apps input field, & sometimes this causes an error as of the latest commit (OLE Heap corruption) ! Collins Dictionary works perfectly though, only not this Thinking Man's Thesaurus !

[cracyc]

Need more detail. What is on the clipboard when it crashes? Did this start after the recent commits? Also a trace could help.

[alienfxfiend]

Bingo ! I found out what clipboard text was crashing the app (the aforementioned Interrupt crash.) It was an EmDash "—" (without quotes) ! Clicking Continue lets the app work normally though. I'm not certain if it was after the recent commit, the launchtime has certainly improved (Heap Corruption in OLE commit —which I got through AppVeyor.) On Windows 3.11 on DOSBox Games Launcher (frontend) the app opens instantly, & it does so now /w the recent commit too, which is great ! P.S: This error is not the same as the error I reported at the beginning of this Bug Report, this one is just when the EmDash character is in clipboard. The one I initially reported was a false flag because I had ForceSingleProcessor unchecked, since I didn't realize the zip overwrote the OTVDM.ini. Hopefully you can fix this little bug so it goes away.

[cracyc]

Not fixable because it's a bug in the program as emdash is ascii 0x97 and it sign extends it to 0xff97 which causes a pointer underflow. Also reproducible in ntvdm. You can try this spell.dll replacement which might fix it
SPELL.zip
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[alienfxfiend]

Thank you for clarifying —I will check it out pronto ! P.S: That works, it's fixed now ! ♥