[Dx4win] dx4win crashes when microham router not run

[Mel]

It reminds me of the joke about a guy who goes to the doctor and tells 
him: "When I do this it hurts... what should I do?". The doctor replies: 
"Just don't do that!".

I have a similar setup and the solution is painfully obvious. Always 
start urouter. Why do you NOT want to start it? Urouter should be 
started automatically when windows starts. It takes a moment to start 
but doesn't consume much resources, about 7MB of VM and almost no CPU.

Maybe Paul could improve the COM port start routines to check for 
this... but this is not a priority Kostas.

Kostas Stamatis wrote:
> I use a microham mk2r+ for interface between dx4win and my rig. I have 
> assigned some com ports for rig control, ptt, fsk and one port for winkey. 
> If i run dx4win without to load the microham router, dx4win gives me some 
> messages that com ports are not there and finally opens. But when i try to 
> save the log or to simply close the dx4win gives me a message like "an 
> exception occured! Thread Error: access not allowed (5)". I can not close 
> dx4win except i terminate it via windows manager. This happens only if i 
> have winkey selected and not if i have a (usb or normal) com port for cw. I 
> had the same behaviour with k1el original keyer also and this happens in 
> ver.7 also.
> 
> How Writelog acts? Well when i start Writelog and i have not router running, 
> it will open normally (without any message) and simply i have not rig 
> control, ptt, cw, etc. When i run the router all come back normally.
> 
> I would like to know if this happens for you also ( i am not sure that this 
> happens in all computers) and second if  you prefer a similar to writelog 
> behaviour. For example i would like dx4win says that com ports are closed 
> but continues to work and when i start the router the com ports start 
> functioning (almost like writelog).
> 
> Many times i want just to check the clusters spots and i want to run dx4win 
> only for this. So i don't want to run the router every time i start dx4win. 
> Sometimes also i forget to run the router before to run dx4win. It's not a 
> big problem but an everyday problem for sure. I don't like to see dx4win 
> crashes. By the way i know that i can have router start with Windows but 
> because my computer is rather old and i use it for other work also, i don't 
> like to load many things during startup.
> 
> Kostas sv1dpi 
> 
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