This behavior still occurs for me while working on a fairly complex qvw file, after selecting the "Settings.Expression Overview" menuitem, using QlikView Desktop version 10.00.8935.7 SR2 64-bit Edition (x64), licensed and registered.
I wouldn't necessarily say that it "crashes"; more that it freezes, becomes locked up, becomes unresponsive, and there is a chime sound when I click anywhere on the application. I cannot say I let this bother me too much; I just try to stay away from "Expression Overview" when I can.
Note: Same/similar behavior occurs at times in the "Edit Expression" dialogbox, when you double-click on the autocomplete item (Microsoft calls it IntelliSense). Eg: The example qvw file has, among its fields, the following two: [Q1 Total], Q1_Total_Image. In the "Edit Expression" dialogbox, type "Q1" then double-click on the autocompleted item of "Q1 Total". The "Edit Expression" dialogbox nicely resolves the item and displays [Q1 Total]. But in this example you realize that you actually wanted the image field, so you move the cursor to the beginning of [Q1 Total] and click the Del key once, in order to delete the opening square bracket character. Autocomplete presents two items and this time double-click on the second item, "Q1_Total_Image". The "Edit Expression" dialogbox disappears and QlikView Desktop becomes a frozen chiming machine.
Tip: A way that I get out of this situation, without losing my work, is the following steps:
- Launch Windows "Task Manager" (I right-mouse click on the Windows taskbar.)
- Locate on the Applications tab and select the task representing QlikView Desktop.
- Click the "End Task" button.
- IMPORTANT: When QlikView Desktop comes back to life and asks me if I'd like to save changes to my current file, I click the *Cancel* button.
- If the Task Manager's "End Program" dialogbox doesn't already disappear on its own, click the *Cancel* button on that, too.
- Good to go, continue working with QlikView Desktop...
I hope this helps someone.
D.Will, ATP Engineering
