A script crashes Tidy on PC but not VMware Guest. Even installed Autoit fresh

[Morthawt]

I am curious, what would cause a script to always crash when trying to Tidy it up? I put my script into the VMware Guest I use to make my tutorials and it Tidied fine,  even after I made sure it had the latest version of both AutoIt and scite editor.

This is a script I wrote as a fun little thing to generate TeamSpeak 3 identities and check their unique ID for words and if found export them to a file so I could use them. But at some point during coding the Tidy tool just crashes every time. I do not have this issue with my other scripts.

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#RequireAdmin
AutoItSetOption('TrayAutoPause', 0)
AutoItSetOption('MouseCoordMode', 0)
Global $SuccessCount = 0, $Button_Export[2] = [380, 56], $Button_ADD[2] = [48, 58], $Button_DEL[2] = [129, 56], $Button_IMP[2] = [387, 329], $Box_NextLevel[2] = [232, 115], $Area_ID_LIST[2] = [87, 96], $Box_LastID[2] = [287, 292]
HotKeySet('!x', '_exit')
Func _exit()
Exit
EndFunc
DirCreate(@ScriptDir & '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Words Anywhere')
DirCreate(@ScriptDir & '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Starts With A Word')
DirCreate(@ScriptDir & '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Contains Long Word')
Sleep(5000)
BlockInput(1)
While 1
ButtonAdd()
ButtonIMP()
Sleep(20)
CheckLevel()
WEnd
Func ButtonAdd()
WinActivate('Identities')
WinWaitActive('Identities')
MouseClick('main', $Button_ADD[0], $Button_ADD[1], 1, 0)
EndFunc
Func ButtonDEL()
WinActivate('Identities')
WinWaitActive('Identities')
MouseClick('main', $Area_ID_LIST[0], $Area_ID_LIST[1], 1, 0)
Send('^a')
Sleep(20)
Send('{DELETE}')
WinActivate('Confirmation')
WinWaitActive('Confirmation')
Send('{ENTER}')
EndFunc
Func ButtonIMP()
Sleep(20)
ClipPut(10)
EndFunc
Func CheckLevel()
Local $UID, $level, $firstwordis
Static Local $LastWasSuccessful, $TotalCount
If Not IsBool($LastWasSuccessful) then $LastWasSuccessful = True
WinActivate('Identities')
WinWaitActive('Identities')
MouseClick('main', $Area_ID_LIST[0], $Area_ID_LIST[1], 1, 0)
Send('{END}')
MouseClick('main', $Box_LastID[0], $Box_LastID[1], 1, 0)
Send('^a')
Sleep(20)
Send('^c')
Sleep(20)
$UID = ClipGet()
$level = 'X'
$Anywordcontents = CheckUID($UID)
$Firstwordcontents = CheckUID($UID, 1)
If UBound($Anywordcontents) Then
If UBound($Firstwordcontents) Then $firstwordis = $Firstwordcontents[0]
$path = '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Words Anywhere'
If UBound($Firstwordcontents) Then $path = '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Starts With A Word'
For $lengthcheck in $Anywordcontents
If StringLen($lengthcheck) > 4 Then $path = '\Morthawt''s ID Creator ID''s\Contains Long Word'
Next
ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & '*SUCCESS____  ')
$SuccessCount += 1
MouseClick('main', $Button_Export[0], $Button_Export[1], 1, 0)
WinWait('Export Identity')
WinActivate('Export Identity')
$UID2 = StringReplace($UID, '\', ' ')
$UID2 = StringReplace($UID2, '/', ' ')
ClipPut('"' & @ScriptDir & $path & '\[' & $SuccessCount & ']        ' & $UID2 & '"')
Send('^v')
Send('{ENTER}')
FileWriteLine(@ScriptDir & '\ID''s Created.txt', 'Number of ID: ' & $SuccessCount & ' Unique ID: ' & $UID)
ConsoleWrite('Number: ' & $SuccessCount & '       ID: ' & $UID & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite('Words:  ')
For $words in $Anywordcontents
If $Words == $firstwordis Then
ConsoleWrite('*[' & $words & ']*, ')
Else
ConsoleWrite($words & ', ')
EndIf
Next
$LastWasSuccessful = True
Else
If $LastWasSuccessful then ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & '*FAILURE* ')
ConsoleWrite('+')
$LastWasSuccessful = False
EndIf
$TotalCount += 1
If IsInt($TotalCount / 100) Then ButtonDEL()
EndFunc
Func CheckUID($_input, $_UUID_Word_At_Start_Only = 0)
Local $regexedfile = FileRead(@ScriptDir & '\regexed-english.txt'), $dictionaryfile = FileRead(@ScriptDir & '\english-piped.txt'), $RegexDictionary = StringSplit($regexedfile, '@', 3), $WordDictionary = StringSplit($dictionaryfile, '@', 3)
$startornot = ''
If $_UUID_Word_At_Start_Only Then $startornot = '^'
Local $_result[0]
For $a = 0 To UBound($RegexDictionary) - 1
$testregex = StringRegExp($_input, $startornot & $RegexDictionary[$a], 1)
If UBound($testregex) Then
For $testresults In $testregex
If StringLen($WordDictionary[$a]) > 2 Then
ReDim $_result[UBound($_result) + 1]
$_result[UBound($_result) - 1] = $testresults
EndIf
Next
EndIf
Next
If UBound($_result) < 1 Then
SetError(1)
Return
EndIf
Return $_result
EndFunc

The script it's self is probably useless without the other files but those are not needed to run a simple Tidy. I would appreciate some insight into this problem. For now I can just copy/paste my code too and from VMware but it is, as you can imagine, annoying.

[Melba23]

Morthawt,

That script runs without problem for me - I am using Tidy AutoIt3 v14.801.2025.2.

M23

[Morthawt]

Yeah I have no idea what is going on. I even uninstalled AutoIt and scite editor and installed fresh and still it will not Tidy.. ;(

[Morthawt]

Ok after trying things that just shouldn't work since you said it Tidies for you also... I think I figured it out. Here is the full path to my file locally: "H:Autoit projectsTeamSpeak ID Generation ProgramsTeamSpeak create new IDs to look for nice.au3" If I Tidy it, it crashes every time. If I save the filename but straight to "H:" it tidies fine. If I leave the file in the same original location and rename to 123.au3 it also tidies.

So I think there is a bug in Tidy.exe relating to the length of the path/filename.

[Melba23]

Morthawt,

When renamed the script crashes for me too - so there is the answer: use shorter names!

M23

[Morthawt]

Can you pass this up the chain and hopefully see if it can be resolved? I can use shorter names for now but still, that really hampers organization.

[Melba23]

Morthawt,

I am sure Jos will look in when he sees the thread title - but I will prod him if he seems to have missed it.

M23

[Morthawt]

Thanks M23

[Jos]

There is a newer Tidy version available since sep 21 that probably fixes this -> v14.801.2025.3

Could you try this first before I start digging into this?

Jos

[Morthawt]

Sure, how do I get it? I already uninstalled autoit and scite editor and installed all fresh from the site and that did not help.

[JLogan3o13]

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/download/beta_SciTE4AutoIt3/

Also, when you say VMWare Guest, are you talking Workstation or an actual Guest (vCenter), and which version either way? If the version of Tidy does not resolve, I can do some VM testing.

[Morthawt]

Thanks.

Jos, that one works flawlessly. 

[Jos]

It is always surprising that multiple people find the same bug within a few weeks while it was there for many years already.

Jos

[Morthawt]

I have had this problem once before but I never figured out what it was and it never happened since, until now.