Can't Run, Want Project to Live On

[Gabby-Paolucci]

The original CDex project has been taken over and hijacked to include adware in the installer, and the SourceForge project no longer exists (see CDex - Wikipedia). You have the only source code I can find online for CDex. I'm hoping to revive the clean CDex.

The problem is, I can't run the Visual Studio project in your repository. I'm getting the error:

Unhandled exception at 0x00FF9AF3 in CDex.exe: An invalid parameter was passed to a function that considers invalid parameters fatal.

At invarg.c Line 132:
`` __fastfail(FAST_FAIL_INVALID_ARG);

I'm familiar with C# but not C++, and I'm not sure what I can do to resolve this issue. Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.

[wech71]

Could you provide the complete call stack? This method is just a helper function which is being called when an invalid argument was passed to a function (probably a null pointer)

Update: I just downloaded, and compiled it and it works for me.

[Gabby-Paolucci]

Sorry, should have included that. Here's the full Call Stack:

CDex.exe!invoke_watson(const wchar_t * pszExpression, const wchar_t * pszFunction, const wchar_t * pszFile, unsigned int nLine, unsigned int pReserved) Line 132 C++
CDex.exe!invalid_parameter(const wchar_t * pszExpression, const wchar_t * pszFunction, const wchar_t * pszFile, unsigned int nLine, unsigned int pReserved) Line 86 C++
CDex.exe!fputws(const wchar_t * string, iobuf * stream) Line 48 C
CDex.exe!CStdioFile::WriteString(const wchar_t * lpsz) Line 239 C++
CDex.exe!CLanguage::ReportChangedID(int nID, const CUString & strResource, const CUString & strEnglish, int nType) Line 154 C++
CDex.exe!CLanguage::GetString(const unsigned long nID) Line 265 C++
CDex.exe!CLanguage::ParseLanguageFile(const CUString & strFileName) Line 458 C++
CDex.exe!CLanguage::SetLanguage(const CUString & strLanguage) Line 586 C++
CDex.exe!CLanguage::Init(const CUString & strLanguageDir, const CUString & strLanguage) Line 561 C++
CDex.exe!CCDexApp::InitInstance() Line 380 C++
CDex.exe!AfxWinMain(HINSTANCE * hInstance, HINSTANCE_ * hPrevInstance, wchar_t * lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) Line 37 C++
CDex.exe!wWinMain(HINSTANCE__ * hInstance, HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance, wchar_t * lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) Line 26 C++

Looks like the CDex code that is causing the problem is line 380 in CDex.cpp:
g_language.Init( g_config.GetAppPath(), g_config.GetLanguage() );

And the problem is with the call to g_config.GetLanguage().

[Gabby-Paolucci]

I found the issue. Line 139-140 in Language.cpp is trying to create a file in C:\temp, which the application doesn't have rights to do:

if ( cFile.Open(    _T( "c:\\temp\\missing.txt" ),
                            CFile::modeReadWrite | CFile::modeNoTruncate | CFile::modeCreate ) )

Changing this to a directory the application has access to resolves the issue. Any idea how to get this to use a temporary path based on the Windows environment? I'm trying but am having trouble getting it with the CStdioFile.Open.

[Gabby-Paolucci]

Thanks for fixing this issue!