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$rc=box(0,0,10,10,GRID)
$rc=box(6,9,20,71,Å) ; the special char is produced by ALT+143
$rc=messagebox('Hello World','Testing',4112,0)
exit 0

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Mind you: This works without problem with KiX 4.02, and will work with 4.10 if you create a shortcut such as "e:\test\wkix32.exe" "\temp\testscript.kix" and then use it to launch the 4 lines of code above.

What Ruud and I have been working on, is that the failure is caused by changing the script argument to include a drive letter such as "e:\test\wkix32.exe" "e:\temp\testscript.kix"

I don't know exactly why, and Ruud is leaving town for a few days, so we'll have to wait for his explanation upon his return...

But the interim solution is to wrap the special character used to generate the box in quotes. This, (according to the manual) is the way it should have been done, but since I never ran into a problem before, it was never looked at...

$rc=box(6,9,20,71,"Å")
; Wrapped in quotes, the script filespec with a drive letter now works.

So, while there is still a mystery as to why a change in the command line argument triggers the failure, at least I have a solution.

Of course, this may be the tip of the iceberg and other things may be effected, so hopefully finding this one problem will prevent others

-Brian

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Well, the brilliant news (this one was seriously getting on my nerves) is that I've repro'd, found and worked around the issue.

The weird thing is that it turns out to be a really obscure (timing-related) issue in one of the C-runtime functions. Never hit this before, and it's really ugly: doesn't occur when run in the debugger, only when run 'for real' (this is part of why I couldn't repro anything earlier....).

Wow, glad to get rid of this one: thanks for your excellent support!

-Ruud

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