drewsky

Well that's what I was thinking, I just wasn't sure if I should say it on this forum. Hehe. I have actually written a simple word processor before. It's absolutely featureless, but it doesn't crash! Maybe I should use that? [edit] For my own credit, I didn't use that C++ Appwizard, I wrote it from 'scratch' using BlitzMax.

I recently lost one and a half pages when MsWord XP crashed on me. I need help understanding something that maybe some people here can help me with. How could MSWord crash? How is it possible? I'm honestly dumbstruck. I have been programming for almost 7 years and I know what it takes to write stable/unstable programs. I've also run some complex programs on my machine before. Things such as modern video games and physics/graphics demos, or programs I or other colleagues have written. I expect those things to have maybe a simple problem now and then. But even they rarely crash. So how could such an incredibly simple system like a word processor have been screwed up so badly that it crashes? Is there more complexity than I initially assumed?