ArcPad Error on Exit - 10.02

Question

Every time I exit ArcPad 10.02, I get an ArcPad.exe window with the message "ArcPad has encountered a problem and needs to close." The program window has already closed by the time I this window appears.  There is a Debug option that doesn't appear to do anything.  Anyone else experience this?

I'm running it on an Windows XP laptop, and never encountered this in 10.01.

Thanks.

Nathan

NathanRudd · Answer

It could well be related, since all of the 'WIMS' shapefiles also have custom ArcPad forms with APL and VBS files.

However, I have noticed other strange behavior in previous versions of ArcPad that I believe must be related to the shapefile definition (not the data forms).  For example: editing polygons created by GPS-streaming by deleting vertices somehow corrupts the file header and makes it impossible to import the data back into our Access database; opening empty shapefiles in ArcMap generates an error message: "Error opening feature class. Number of shapes does not match the number of table records."  However, I never encountered the error on exiting ArcPad in previous versions of ArcPad (I did not use v. 8).

Maybe a future update will bring a solution.

Nathan

RolfBroch · Answer

Could this be related?

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/8043-ArcPad.exe-has-encountered-a-problem...?highlight=exit

Rolf

TimHopper · Answer

Nice work narrowing that down.  Most of the time, ArcPad related crashes and issues are data specific.

For those problematic shapefiles, you can try a few things.

1. Import the shapefile into a geodatabase.  Does the feature class cause ArcPad to crash if you check out for ArcPad?
2. Export that feature class back out to a shapefile.  Does this new shapefile cause ArcPad to crash?
3. Run Check / Repair Geometry on your problematic shapefiles.

ArcToolbox > Data Management Tools > Features > Check Geometry / Repair Geometry

Sometimes the steps above will get you a shapefile which works properly.

Thanks.