Unable to Register Clarion Templates

[Larry Teames]

I just tested my latest script (with my approach added) as follows:

XP Pro SP2 P4 2.8ghz 2.5gb: mine worked, yours did only 1st
Vista Ultimate P4 2.0ghz 1.5gb: mine worked, yours did only 1st
Win2K SP4 P3 850mhz 750mb: mine worked, yours did neither

All 3 machines are running against C6.3 #9055, and have Avast virus checker. In all cases, I unregistered only the 2 wizard templates (leaving all other templates registered), closed C6.3, then run the install test. Upon completion I open the the template registry and see whats registered.

I understand that you have tested it extensively, and that it works for you reliably. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as it should for me. It may well be something that exists on all 3 of my machines causing the problem, but DDE is DDE, so i would think that if it is DDE per se, mine would fail as well. Perhaps its some kind of timing issue. Again, I'd be happy to email you my source files so they could be compared against yours to see if here is any significant difference. Not that I think mine is better than yours, but simply different, and perhaps useful in determining why mine and yours produce different results. Just let me know if you want me to send the zip file.

Thanks

Larry

[linder]

Hi Larry,

It would be great if you could send me the code.

Our DDE code is pure C++ code (tested in the Microsoft labs to demonstrate and work-around a Windows DDE bug) so it "should" be perfectly OK.

The main problem is that it never fails on any of our machines so I cannot reproduce it and I have no idea where to look.

I tested this again on my main development machine (Clarion 6.3 build 9055, Clarion IDE not active, protected by ZoneAlarm 7). This time I unregistered only the 2 wizard templates (like you did in your tests). Executed the install that already worked fine on the other machines - it registered the templates without any problem.

I am lost...

Friedrich

[linder]

Larry,

The only difference between our DDE code is that your code is written in Clarion and mine is written in C++. I checked your source code and the functionality is identical.

I am at a data center right now (to perform final SetupBuilder 6.5 tests) and we have installed C63 on 38 different test machines. I executed your script (compiled with SB60) and it registered all templates without any problem.

I am completely lost

Friedrich

[Larry Teames]

Friedrich:

I understand. Sometimes there just seems to be no apparent reason for differing results. At this point, per your suggestion, I have changed my script to use my DLL.

Please, might I be able to get a copy of the executable you have been running (as well as the script that generated it). I'm cousious as to whether the same executable that works for you will also work for me. If so, it would tend to point to my SB6 installation not being the same as yours, which could be why we get differing results.

TIA

Larry