This seems like the simplest thing in the world and I'm ready to pull my hair out over it.

I have a unit that looks like this ;

Unit  myUnit;
// ...
//normal declarations
//...
Public
//bunch of procedures including
Procedure myProcedure;

const
//bunch of constants

var
//bunch of vars including
myCounter:integer;

Implementation
Uses //(all my uses)

// All of my procedures including

Procedure myProcedure;
   try
     // load items from file to TListBox - this all works
   except
   on EReadError do begin
     // handle exception
     end;
   end; //try



   myCounter:=0;  //  <--  ACCESS VIOLATION HERE
   while myCounter //...etc

It's a simple assignment of a variable and I have no idea why it is doing this. I've tried declaring the variable local to the unit, to the procedure, globally - no matter where I try to do it I can't assign a value of zero to an integer, declared anywhere, within this procedure without it throwing an access violation. I'm totally stumped.

I'm calling the procedure from inside a button OnClick handler from within the same unit, but no matter where I call it from it throws the exception. The crazy thing is that I do the exact same thing in a dozen other places in units all over the program without problems. Why here? I'm at a total loss.