Vista Problem with Valentina Xtra for Director

[Jochen Peters]

Hi Bob,

i have installed your program here. i have NOT run it from the  
installer - instead i have completed
the installer first. After installing Vista tolds me that maybe  
something is wrong with the installer!
Then i had to choose manually if installation was successfully or not  
- i choosed successfully.

After that glitch i started your program - and it WORKS - no crash!

So - very strange...

I REALLY RECOMMEND that you now try to get the GettingStarted example  
to run!
Maybe something is wrong with the path settings on Vista.
I remember that i had problems with another program on Vista - and  
this problem
was gone after setting the PATH environment variable. It was  
initially empty
in my user settings - i have set it to %PATH - the system path.
I do NOT know if this is related - but maybe you can give it a try...

Once again: PLEASE try to get the GettingStarted example to work !  
And let us know if it works.

-- 
Best regards,
Jochen Peters
PIIT GmbH

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http://www.valentina-db.de


Am 09.04.2007 um 14:02 schrieb Bob Hartz, Master Guru Online Program:

> Not sure what the solution will be if we can't get this to work on  
> Vista.  I'm crossing my fingers that you'll be able to get this to  
> work.  It sounds as though things are going in the right direction.
>
> Thanks for all of your help.
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Jochen Peters [mailto:j.peters at valentina-db.de]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:54 AM
> To: Bob Hartz, Master Guru Online Program
> Subject: Re: Vista Problem with Valentina Xtra for Director
>
> Hi Bob!
>
> ok - i will try that - but if it fails - what will this mean?
>
> PLEASE: Make a projector from the GettingStarted example on XP and  
> move it
> to your Vista box - as i have described in one of my previous mails.
> Then please let us know if THIS works for you!
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Jochen Peters
> PIIT GmbH
>
> ------------------------------------
> http://www.valentina-db.de
>
> Am 09.04.2007 um 13:40 schrieb Bob Hartz, Master Guru Online Program:
>
>> Hi Ruslan and Jochen,
>> Please go ahead and download the installer and then run the  
>> program to see if it works on your version of Vista. This is  
>> crucial that we get this to work for us.
>> Thank you for your time and efforts.
>> Bob
>> The installer is at http://playmasterguru.com/mscd.php
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Vogel [mailto:brian at techrhythm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:18 AM
>> To: Ruslan Zasukhin; Bob Hartz, Co-Creator, Master Guru
>> Subject: Re: Vista Problem with Valentina Xtra for Director
>>
>> Ruslan,
>>
>> I do not miss point. I did EXACTLY what Jochen did. Built  
>> everything on XP, created an INSTALLER, installed - and it did not  
>> work on Vista. The installer has been downloaded and used by about  
>> 20 testers, and works as expected on XP. The installer is at  
>> http://playmasterguru.com/mscd.php
>>
>>
>>
>> Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>>> On 9/4/07 5:52 AM, "Brian Vogel" <brian at techrhythm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>> You have miss point.
>>>     Jochen did run Director and V4MD on XP.
>>>     then he have build projector
>>>     and try run compiled projector on vista. -- WORKS.
>>>
>>> I.e. You MUST for now develop seating on XP.
>>> But RESULT which you will deploy DO WORK on Vista.
>>>
>>> So we do consider this as show stopper.
>>> XP will be yet long time in game.
>>>
>>> And on my PC I have HDD with 4 sections:
>>>     XP1
>>>     XP2
>>>     Vista
>>>     Linux.
>>>
>>> So I can restart into any of this OS and do job there.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jochen,
>>>>
>>>> I did the same, except on my system it doesn't load the Vista Xtra.
>>>> Director (aka the compiled projector) doesn't even load the DLL,  
>>>> so it
>>>> can't even create it.  Any ideas on how I would configure a  
>>>> system to
>>>> get it to run correctly?
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>> Jochen Peters wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>>
>>>>> today i have tested V4MD on Windows Vista:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) I have compiled the "gettingStarted" example from V4MD as a
>>>>> standalone Projektor
>>>>> 2) I have made folder "GettingStarted"
>>>>> 3) I have copied the projektor .exe inside this new folder
>>>>> 4) I have made a subfolder "Xtras" and copied the V4MD xtra there
>>>>> 5) i copied all stuff from the VComponents folder inside the
>>>>> "GettingStarted" folder
>>>>>
>>>>> All these steps was made on XP using Director MX 2004
>>>>>
>>>>> 6) I moved this folder to my Vista box and started the projektor
>>>>>
>>>>> All works fine - the getting started example creates a Valentina
>>>>> database, create a table and so on.
>>>>> All as expected.
>>>>>
>>>>> So - i do not see any problems here with Vista as a runtime
>>>>> environment. Of course i have not
>>>>> installed Director on my Vista Box - all development was done  
>>>>> on XP!
>>>>>
>>>>> --Best regards,
>>>>> Jochen Peters
>>>>> PIIT GmbH
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>> http://www.valentina-db.de
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jochen,
>>>>>> How goes your testing on the Valentina Xtra for Director Vista  
>>>>>> issue?
>>>>>> Have you been able to replicate the problem or is the Xtra  
>>>>>> running
>>>>>> fine on Vista for you?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our client is getting antsy to ship their product and I think  
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> very important to support Vista since all new computers are now
>>>>>> shipping with the operating system. We have until Friday,  
>>>>>> April 13th
>>>>>> to resolve this issue. If you need more information or a copy  
>>>>>> of the
>>>>>> product to help you debug, I'll figure out what needs to be  
>>>>>> done on
>>>>>> our end to make sure that happens. Please let me know the best  
>>>>>> way to
>>>>>> proceed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --Bill Langenberg
>>>>>> Manager of Media Technology
>>>>>> Argosy Publishing
>>>>>> 109 Oak St., Newton, MA, 02464
>>>>>> p: (617) 527-9999 x284
>>>>>> f: (617) 527-3335
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jochen Peters wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> no - currently no progress.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I will try here again with a simple Valentina example...
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Brian Vogel
>> Techrhythm
>> www.techrhythm.com
>> brian at techrhythm.com
>> 585 944.2891
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