Crash on opening code-editor

Hi vvvv forum / devvvvs,

I’m having a problem with b28.1, using the code editor. When trying to open the code editor (right clicking on a plugin) VVVV crashes. TTY Render gives the following error:

00:00:37 ERR : Exception occured during creation of plugin: The composition produced a single composition error. The root cause is provided below. Review the CompositionException.Errors property for more detailed information.

  1. Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 1, position 38.

Resulting in: An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of type ‘VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin’.

Resulting in: Cannot activate part ‘VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin’.
Element: VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin --> VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin --> DirectoryCatalog (Path=“C:\Users\CMI HRO\Desktop\vvvv_45beta28.1\lib\nodes\editors”)

Resulting in: Cannot get export ‘VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin (ContractName=“VVVV.PluginInterfaces.V2.IEditor”)’ from part ‘VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin’.
Element: VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin (ContractName=“VVVV.PluginInterfaces.V2.IEditor”) --> VVVV.HDE.CodeEditor.CodeEditorPlugin --> DirectoryCatalog (Path=“C:\Users\CMI HRO\Desktop\vvvv_45beta28.1\lib\nodes\editors”)

00:00:37 - : To help us track this error down, enable the ExceptionDialog via the menu or starting vvvv with /showexceptions.

Any Ideas or suggestions what might be wrong?

Here’s the attached exception log that VVVV produces on the crash

exception_log.txt (29.1 kB)

can you also attach the file/project you want to open so i can try to reproduce?

Hi Elias,

Here’s an example patch. It contains a TTY Renderer and a Template node. Right-clicking the template node produces the crash.

CrashOnRightClickTemplate.v4p (995 Bytes)

well, works fine here. we had various strange issues in the past, some of them were solved by simply re-downloading vvvv. did you try that?

another thing you could try: press ctrj + j to open the project explorer, uncheck the “hide unused projects” checkbox on the top, open any project by right clicking on it and doubleclick a file in there. do you get the same error then?

Redownloaded 28.1, works fine.
added the addon pack, still works fine

opened the troublesome patch, still works.

So i’d say issue resolved… strange behaviour though! any thoughs on what might have triggered this?