Hello Everyone. I have written a 500 lines of code that takes data out of a flight simulator and displays it on a led display. The program runs fine for about 5 minutes then crashes with "out of stack space" stated by the editor. I know I am over my head just visiting MSDN's website and hearing talk of "procedures too deeply nested" and " recursive procedures not terminated correctly". ( I really am at the "Visual Basic for Dummies" level.)
First I apologize for being tremendously vague and uninformative. I really am just a novice that worked really hard just to get to this point. I think it might be time to try and find a consultant who could offer suggestions but I don't know the best way to go about that. I would post the code here only with permission from the moderator because I think that might too presumptuous.
(it has 4 forms and a module).
Thank you again.
curtis.
The error basically means that there are too many routines (Subs/Functions) running at the 'same' time - you have started a very large amount of routines that haven't finished running yet.
This is almost certainly due to you accidentally having done something "recursive", which means a routine somehow manages to run another copy of itself. In cases like this it is generally due to one of these causes:
You have code in a _Change event (or similar) that makes a change to the value of the control - and thus runs itself again.
One routine calls another (that perhaps calls another, etc), which under some circumstances calls the first one, thus creating a kind of 'loop' that never ends.
You have got code in a Timer, but the code takes more time to run than the Interval.
I would post the code here only with permission from the moderator because I think that might too presumptuous.
You don't need permission, feel free to attach it.
While it is generally good to not post lots of code unless somebody asks for it (as usually we only need to see a small part, if anything), cases like this depend on several parts of the program - so to be able to help much more than I have in this post, we need to see the whole project.
In case you don't know, to attach a file click on "Post Reply" below, then on the next screen click "Manage Attachments"
Thank you Si, I cannot tell you how much your help/encouragement and this forum as a whole has been to me as a beginner. I am amazed at how much I have learned but I think to track this problem down now would take me a year long class
big oops Dil...told you I was a real novice! A call to a execute a procedure will automatically return to the code that called it of course. A call from a call is the recursive loop problem!
will try to fix it and see what happens.
thank you again!!!
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