V4RB - Carbonlib 1.6 and OS 8.6 problem

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 6/18/03 15:39, Fitzbew at aol.com at Fitzbew at aol.com wrote:

>> What version of V4RB do you use?
>> Try latest 1.9.8b8
>> 
>> Why you cannot live with PPC version of app for 8.6 ?
>> 
>> IT is known that CarbonLib sometimes glitches...
>> I can assume that in this case there is some incompatibility between it and
>> OS 8.6. You sure that Apple claims that CarbonLib 1.6 will work on 8.6?
>> 
> 
> Ruslan (and others),
> 
> I'm using V4RB 1.9.7 --- I'll give the beta a try and see if that fixes it.
> I'll post later and let you know how that went.
> 
> Yes, Carbonlib 1.6 is "advertised" as compatible with OS 8.6.
> 
> I'm not using PPC because of a problem with another RB plug-in --- I must
> compile in carbon to work around some cosmetic problems that occurr with that
> plug-in under PPC.    However, if I can't V4RB to work under carbon, my
> customers 
> are just going to have to accept some cosmetic problems :-( .   I can't work
> around Valentina.
> 
> No one has come forward and said they are using V4RB successfully in the same
> configuration (OS 8.6, Carbonlib 1.6), so perhaps I am the only person in the
> World doing this.    Ruslan, I'm not sure it's worth your time worrying about
> it.   Potential V4RB users still might need to know up-front that Carbonlib
> 1.6 + OS 8.6 "kills" V4RB (but Carbonlib 1.6 + OS 9.2.2 works fine with V4RB).
> 
> It's just speculation on my part, but I think based on the info Charles
> shared, the "core" problem has something to do with how folderitems are
> "communicated" between V4RB and Carbonlib and the OS.   The app crashes at
> "bool = 
> db.Open(f) ", whereas the same line in PPC under 8.6 works fine.

You can try as last chance -- DebugLevel(2) and see Dcon messages.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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