I contributed a database system to the FIRST Robotics Competition, a non-profit educational event. I am primarily familiar with the Mac but I delivered a Mac and a PC stand-alone version of the DB.

I now have someone contacting me saying they're getting an error on the PC for which I haven't a clue about the cause.

The table this user is working with accepts up to 3 pics in a repeating container field. The table has 517 records. The user emailed the following to me:

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When I try to add a picture between team 419 and around 438 the program

comes up with an illegal operation. This happens in all my machines

with any version of your database. The details of the error are:

FIRST_DB 2001 caused a divide error in module FMGFX10.DLL at 0167:005d2cbd.

Registers:

EAX=00005a00 CS=0167 EIP=005d2cbd EFLGS=00010206

EBX=00000140 SS=016f ESP=0094f1f4 EBP=0094f484

ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=01b50e84 FS=0f97

EDX=00000000 ES=016f EDI=01b50000 GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

f7 f9 8b 8d 44 ff ff ff 81 e1 ff ff 00 00 89 45

Stack dump:

01b50e84 fffffffe 00005a30 005d3600 005d3cb0 005d3620 005d3cd0 005d3cf0

00000068 00000000 0000003f 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

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I'm waiting for more info from the user. I don't know what OS, method of picture insertion, etc.

Any ideas/help?!

For those who are interested:

My DB is available at:

http://www.cccsd.org/grr/db.htm

If you're interested, organization FIRST is at:

http://www.usfirst.org/thecomp.html

...Mike Spryn

The user has since discovered that the problem occurs only when they try to insert a picture which is greater than 100K. I would like a more graceful rejection from FM, but at least we now know the cause.