"All of the sudden"TM, VarAC started crashing when I went to send a QSL card which I've done dozens of times before. It turns out that I'd accidently deleted the QSL Card Image.
25/04/2025 04:50:33 - QSL Card - Unable to read QSL card image: C:\Users\KB0US\Dropbox\KB0US QSL VarAC.jpg
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename, Boolean useEmbeddedColorManagement)
at System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(String filename)
at VarAC.Form41..ctor(Int32 screen_position_x, Int32 screen_position_y, String qsl_image_file_name_full_path_text, Boolean fade_to_back_at_bool, String my_full_callsign_text, String my_info_text, String callsign_text, String snr_s_text, String snr_r_text, String mode_text, String band_text, DateTime time_datetime, String my_power_text, String message_text, String email_text) Once I figured out what the problem was, the fix was obvious. Ideally, VarAC should at least display a 🤦 out of frustration rather than crashing.
Thank you. I confirm the bug and fixed it. thank you for reporting.
Yesl. I'm running V11.0.7
Before V11 was released fixing this - we had a post about this:
VarAC Crash When Generating QSL – Quick Fix
I've received multiple reports from users experiencing VarAC crashes when attempting to generate a QSL. It turns out that if the QSL card image is missing (due to being moved or renamed), VarAC crashes while trying to load it.
As a temporary workaround, go to Settings → MISC and select a new QSL card image. After that, you should be able to generate a QSL without issues.
This bug will be fixed in the next version. A big thanks to everyone who reported it and provided the necessary data to resolve it.
73s!
This was a bug in V10 which was solved in V11. did you upgrade ?