R:azzak, The application is compiled with the latest version. As far as I know the latest Windows patches are installed. The 3 workstations in question all run Win 7 on identical hardware (Dell); The next step is to see if they can swap the video card on one of them and see if it makes a difference. Having the application on the server apparently prevents running the application in the Win XP SP3 compatibility mode, and hence my intention of running a local version of the compiled version on the local drive, when I can try the compatibility mode. We are trying to debug one step at a time and any help and or suggestions are very much welcomed. I am reading up on looking at debug dumps generated by the Windows Task Manager at the time of the problem to see if there are any clues there.
Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:43 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Startup procedure At 04:12 PM 2/19/2013, Javier Valencia wrote: >As part of an ongoing issue with screen flickering, we have determined >that the issue happens only on the Windows 7 workstations. While trying >to set the application to the compatibility mode, a message is >displayed indicating that this setting cannot be changed on a network drive. >I am thinking about installing copies of the executable on the local >drives to see if it helps, and where we can try running it in the >compatibility mode. I was thinking about creating an external form >front end that checks the current version against the one in the server >and if a newer version is found, it would copy it to the local drive; >has anyone done something like this? If yes, are you using the mapped >drive path or the UNC path to the database files? Is there an advantage in using one over the other? TIA. Javier, FWIW ... you may want to take a close look into the Win 7 Professional (32/64) installation, hardware and video settings. Make sure that all important updates (MS Win 7 and R:BASE) are applied accordingly. All my BIG corporate and government clients use R:BASE eXtreme 9.5 (64), compiled and non-compiled applications in a local, WAN, and TS environment without a problem. Not to mention the shared web applications using Oterro 9.5 (64) running on MS Windows 2008/2010 server with Apache/PHP. Some complex applications accessing multiple R:BASE eXtreme 9.5 (64) databases take full advantage of External Form Files. All compiled applications are shared and running on the network and not on individual workstations. Hope that provides you with some blue's clues ... Very Best R:egards, Razzak www.rbase.com www.facebook.com/rbase
