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Runtime error?

gsnde said:
Thank you Sandra & odd_waves :)

The corrected ADE9X Environment Checker 1.3.7 is linked here.
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Works for me - I initially got an error message about the trailing \ and clicked the repair under FSX section even though I don't have FSX installed, only FS. Then I restarted and no errors other than the red FSX warning, which I expected since that is not installed.

Many thanks for such a quick fix.

Nigel
 
nigelb said:
Works for me - I initially got an error message about the trailing \ and clicked the repair under FSX section even though I don't have FSX installed, only FS. Then I restarted and no errors other than the red FSX warning, which I expected since that is not installed.

Many thanks for such a quick fix.

Nigel
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Nigel,

did you had FSX installed on that computer once and removed it? Because you should not get the repair backslash option if the application is not installed. That would be another bug :o
 
gsnde said:
Nigel,

did you had FSX installed on that computer once and removed it? Because you should not get the repair backslash option if the application is not installed. That would be another bug :o
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Or maybe an indication that an uninstall did not complete correctly but left registry entries behind?
 
gsnde said:
did you had FSX installed on that computer once and removed it?
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scruffyduck said:
Or maybe an indication that an uninstall did not complete correctly but left registry entries behind?
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Yes, that is what I suspect (or should I say hope for? :rolleyes:)

But I need to make another change anyhow. See that ridiculous pathetic "\" at Sandra's screen shot? This is not how it is supposed to be :o

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I never had FSX installed but my screenshot looks just like Sandra's. That was because I "repaired" the FSX section because I got an error message on start, although after that the application ran fine. After I did the repair, I could start without any error messages.

When I started ADE, I got a box witch asked which version of FS to use. I didn't like that even though it only took a second to choose. I went into the registry and deleted the key for Flight Simulator 10 and that fixed starting ADE - it defaulted to FS9 with no dialogue box on start.

I then started the Environment Checker and there were no errors. The section for FSX was red as expected, but this time "na" appeared in the boxes and I assume that is how it should work.

Hope this helps!

Nigel
 
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nigelb said:
I never had FSX installed but my screenshot looks just like Sandra's. That was because I "repaired" the FSX section because I got an error message on start, although after that the application ran fine. After I did the repair, I could start without any error messages.

When I started ADE, I got a box witch asked which version of FS to use. I didn't like that even though it only took a second to choose. I went into the registry and deleted the key for Flight Simulator 10 and that fixed starting ADE - it defaulted to FS9 with no dialogue box on start.

I then started the Environment Checker and there were no errors. The section for FSX was red as expected, but this time "na" appeared in the boxes and I assume that is how it should work.

Hope this helps!

Nigel
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If you never had FSX installed I am curious how a registry key could exist for it in your system?
 
scruffyduck said:
If you never had FSX installed I am curious how a registry key could exist for it in your system?
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That is an easy question to answer! ADE Environment Checker created it when, in the FSX section, I clicked the repair trailing backslash box because of an error message on starting the Environment Checker. The error message referred to a trailing backslash and since the FS9 section was ok, I went ahead and did the FSX repair to see if that fixed the startup error message.

Sure enough the registry had an entry for path of "\".

Next I started ADE. ADE must check the registry on startup and caused the FS9 or FSX selection dialogue to appear. After deleting the bogus registry key, that dissapeared.

After deleting the registry key, I rechecked the Environment Checker, the FSX section had "na" in all items pertaining to FSX and that is what I would expect to see. The only reason I went through all this was to try to help debug the Environment Checker since ADE, so far, apears to work brilliantly!

I promise, I don't even own FSX and have never installed it or the demo version that was available. I knew my old computer was not up to it! :)

Nigel
 
Fair enough. I am sure Martin will look at how to stop this happening in future.
 
nigelb said:
The only reason I went through all this was to try to help debug the Environment Checker since ADE, so far, apears to work brilliantly!
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Nigel, I am aware of this and I am grateful that you help me with this tedious task :)

We will get there, although this will require some guesswork on my site (as did the initial crash error) because I am completely unable to reproduce either behavior :confused: Let me go over my code again. I will report back.
 
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