Tim analyzed and reports it runs cleanly on NT4. Better debugging messages are now available to show what is going on at startup, to show (for example) that the .xrc (xml resources) aren't being found since the "plucker_desktop" folder wasn't put as a subdir of the Plucker directory. Thanks also to Dennis, Dirk, Bryon, TJ and Anthony for their kind test runs.
The zip file is available here, to test: http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2002_03_26/plucker_desktop.zip Requirements: 1. Plucker must already be installed on the machine, via Dirk's excellent installer (which put a reg key for pluckerhome in "The Plucker Team" as part of its items). 2. Palm Desktop software needs to be installed if want to sync to PDA. 3. Resolution of 800x600 or higher (dialogs will be downsized to run on 640x480 in the next major modification of the resouces) To install: 1. Unzip the folder recursively, to get a plucker_desktop directory and everything inside. 2. Place this plucker_desktop directory inside the system's Plucker dir, as was set by installer to where you installed with the Windows installer. For example, if you installed to C:\Program Files\Plucker then the plucker_desktop dir should go inside, to make C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop The plucker_desktop directory thus must be a subdir of the system's Plucker dir (as found in "The Plucker Team" 's pluckerhome key in registry), otherwise will get a stattext.cpp assert and other asserts, since the xrc files won't be found, and hence no controls created. 3. Double click plucker-desktop.exe to start To analyse/send back crash data: 1. Exit/kill Plucker Desktop if it is running. 2. Double click DebugView to start the debugging viewer. 3. Double click plucker-desktop.exe to start 4. Some messages that were written into the code will appear in the debugging viewer, and will be generated up to the crash point. 5. In DebugView, from the menu, choose File > Save to save the log file. 6. Inspect it or send it back. To test XP theming (has never been tested yet): There is a file in plucker_desktop called: plucker-desktop.exe.manifest@REMOVE_TO_TEST@ Just rename that to plucker-desktop.exe.manifest and restart plucker-desktop.exe Plucker-desktop has been tested on 95, 98, 2000, and now NT4(sp6a). No XP or Me tests yet. Win 3.11 is not supported. Note: the compilation switches for quite a few features (internationalization, the styled test editor, etc) have been turned off for this core functionality testing, and will be turned back on when resolved. Best wishes, Robert
