Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-11 Thread Charlie Russel
> Oh, there's a readme? I'd forgotten :-)



> 
> Crashes feel bad, but they can be caused by some minor glitch.
> 
> Let's see if we can debug it at some point, and figure out how bad it
> really is.

Be happy to, but it may have to wait a bit. Probably until at least the
RC, just so we don't have to worry as much about them doing something to
invalidate our work on it. And besides, I'm a bit buried right now. BTW,
the problem exists on 32-bit as well, so it isn't 64-bit specific. 

Charlie. 

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-11 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi Charlie,

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 00:58, Charlie Russel  wrote:
>
> The key to Bill's problems were the requirement for full administrative
> privileges, I'm sure. (I _thought_ that was called out in the readme,
> but maybe not. Have to look.) And the requirement that the setupx64.cmd
> file run from the same drive letter as your system drive. (or, more
> accurately, as your %programfiles% drive.)

Oh, there's a readme? I'd forgotten :-)

>> Sorry to hear about Windows 7. We could look into what's breaking, I
>> wouldn't give up so soon... :)
>
> Well, it's going to RC soonish, from the sounds of it. I had it on build
> 7000 (the widely available public beta build) on a machine that was an
> update from Vista where it was working. It loaded fine (but the colours
> are all different again, so we need to deal with that), but as soon as
> you clicked on it, Explorer crashed. Couldn't even unload it - the
> attempt would crash it and it would reload with explorer.

Crashes feel bad, but they can be caused by some minor glitch.

Let's see if we can debug it at some point, and figure out how bad it really is.

Cheers,
- Kim

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Russel
> Cool, I didn't know that. I was worried that we might be facing
> *another* port to AMD-64 :)
No, no worries there. There are a very few things that one or the other
does slightly differently, and probably only the Intel compiler knows
what they are. AMD64 completely caught Intel by surprise, they were
trying to push everyone to Itanium. And when AMD came out with a very
fast, very compatible, 64-bit processor that MS agreed to support, Intel
basically had no choice but to clone it and play catch up. They've done
a good job of that, but AMD had seriously eaten in to their server
business for a while. 
 
> No, you don't want to do that; the setupx64.cmd batch file is the
> 64-bit version of the 32-bit dqsd-.exe installer. They don't
> complement each other, it's either-or.
You're right, I realized that my systems all have weird legacy stuff
hanging around from my early testing days of this. 

The key to Bill's problems were the requirement for full administrative
privileges, I'm sure. (I _thought_ that was called out in the readme,
but maybe not. Have to look.) And the requirement that the setupx64.cmd
file run from the same drive letter as your system drive. (or, more
accurately, as your %programfiles% drive.)
> 
> Sorry to hear about Windows 7. We could look into what's breaking, I
> wouldn't give up so soon... :)
Well, it's going to RC soonish, from the sounds of it. I had it on build
7000 (the widely available public beta build) on a machine that was an
update from Vista where it was working. It loaded fine (but the colours
are all different again, so we need to deal with that), but as soon as
you clicked on it, Explorer crashed. Couldn't even unload it - the
attempt would crash it and it would reload with explorer. 

As I mentioned, the colours are all different in Win7, so we need to
either recreate the work we did for Vista (not hard, but might be a bit
of a nuisance because the bar is a lot taller by default), or come up
with a way to better handle this on the fly, picking up our colours from
the environment. This is especially the case in Win7 since the task bar
changes colour and transparency along with the window theme. (Oh, and
the bar also does the Aero thing just like window boarders do if you
have an aero theme selected.)

But Win7 is the death knell of the task bar as we knew it. It's changed.
A lot. I still think that the way forward is a Vista gadget. This is
MS's official way to add this kind of utility to Windows and they're
less likely to break it than the taskbar. Also, the server version of
Win7 is 64-bit only, and this may well be the last and final 32-bit
client version. So we need to move to 64-bit as the core if we're going
to run as an Explorer DLL. (Gadgets free us from that requirement, by
the way. )
> 
> - Kim
> 


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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi Charlie,

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 19:37, Charlie Russel  wrote:
> There's no difference in Windows binary between AMD64 and EM64T. The Intel is 
> simply a clone of AMD64.

Cool, I didn't know that. I was worried that we might be facing
*another* port to AMD-64 :)

> Bill - try this:
>
> Run the regular install for 32-bit. This will stuff things in \program files 
> (x86), and it won't work.
> Then run the "install" for 64-bit, from a temporary directory on your system 
> drive. Run this As Administrator.

No, you don't want to do that; the setupx64.cmd batch file is the
64-bit version of the 32-bit dqsd-.exe installer. They don't
complement each other, it's either-or.

Sorry to hear about Windows 7. We could look into what's breaking, I
wouldn't give up so soon... :)

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Russel
Actually, in many ways, Win7 is better/easier than Vista. I'm really
looking forward to it being released. But for applications like ours,
it's really a challenge. 

I've had to mostly stop using DQSD. Not what I wanted, I miss it every
day. But it crashes explorer in Win7, and I can't run it off the
terminal server without running a full desktop session. And I'm using TS
RemoteApps for most things these days. 

I'd really like to see us have a Vista/Win7 gadget for this. It would
get us out of the UAC issues, get us off the taskbar (where MS doesn't
like anyone else to play), and give us some version neutrality. But
while I don't think it is a huge developmental hit, it's way more than I
can do any more.

Charlie.


> -Original Message-
> From: bill.hew...@sentex.net [mailto:bill.hew...@sentex.net]
> Sent: February-10-09 10:52 AM
> To: DQSD users mailing list
> Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64
> 
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:37:53 -0800, you [Charlie Russel] wrote:
> 
> }That should work. At least it did here. (and no, I'm now on Win7 and
> that breaks it again. I've about given up. Unless we create a Gadget
> for Vista/Win7, I think we're doomed to be playing hopeless catchup.
> 
> Thanks for the info, Charlie.  I've now got it working, thanks to Kim,
> on Vista 64.  I'm beginning to regret ever leaving XP 32 for this PITA
> system!  I don't even want to think about the place that you are at
> now!
> 
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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread bill . hewitt
Hi Charlie,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:37:53 -0800, you [Charlie Russel] wrote:

}That should work. At least it did here. (and no, I'm now on Win7 and that 
breaks it again. I've about given up. Unless we create a Gadget for Vista/Win7, 
I think we're doomed to be playing hopeless catchup. 

Thanks for the info, Charlie.  I've now got it working, thanks to Kim,
on Vista 64.  I'm beginning to regret ever leaving XP 32 for this PITA
system!  I don't even want to think about the place that you are at
now!

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Russel
There's no difference in Windows binary between AMD64 and EM64T. The Intel is 
simply a clone of AMD64. 

Bill - try this:

Run the regular install for 32-bit. This will stuff things in \program files 
(x86), and it won't work. Then run the "install" for 64-bit, from a temporary 
directory on your system drive. Run this As Administrator. 

That should work. At least it did here. (and no, I'm now on Win7 and that 
breaks it again. I've about given up. Unless we create a Gadget for Vista/Win7, 
I think we're doomed to be playing hopeless catchup. 

Charlie.


> -Original Message-
> From: Kim Gräsman [mailto:kim.gras...@gmail.com]
> Sent: February-10-09 6:16 AM
> To: bill.hew...@sentex.net; DQSD users mailing list
> Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 15:12,   wrote:
> > Hi Kim,
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:49:52 +0100, you [Kim Gräsman] wrote:
> >
> > }Did you use the dqsdx64-4100-beta.zip from:
> >
> }http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&package_id
> =34145
> >
> > Not exactly, the URL got mine from was as above with
> > '&release_id=618124' added to it.  They both appear to be the same
> > file(s).
> >
> > }We could've done a better job on documentation, but you're supposed
> to
> > }unpack that zip to a temp directory, and then run the embedded
> > }setupx64.cmd batch file to install DQSD.
> >
> > I have now done that with no result whatsoever.  Nothing on screen,
> > nothing installed.  Please bear in mind that this is an Intel
> > processor and not an AMD as the install file suggests.
> 
> SourceForge didn't have any generic 64-bit available, so we had to
> pick AMD-64 to signify that it was a 64-bit build. We've tested it on
> Intel, as far as I remember, so it should work.
> 
> Try starting up a command window (start -> run... -> cmd) and CD into
> your temporary "unpack" dir. Then run setupx64.cmd from there and see
> what it outputs.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Kim
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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Kim Gräsman
Bill,

Glad to hear you got it working! We definitely need to document the
steps for installing the x64 build...

- Kim

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 16:37,   wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:38 +0100, you [Kim Gräsman] wrote:
>
> }SourceForge didn't have any generic 64-bit available, so we had to
> }pick AMD-64 to signify that it was a 64-bit build. We've tested it on
> }Intel, as far as I remember, so it should work.
>
> Well, it does...
>
> }Try starting up a command window (start -> run... -> cmd) and CD into
> }your temporary "unpack" dir. Then run setupx64.cmd from there and see
> }what it outputs.
>
> Ok, I managed to install from the cmd console, but not without some
> hassles.  The main problem was trying to do this install without full
> admin privileges.  Once that had been sorted away (and ignoring all
> the MS threats) the install went smoothly.  However, upon reboot I
> lost all keyboard and mouse input (they were wireless).  I tried
> replacing them with wired components to no avail.  A hard shutdown was
> done, and of course the 'not a proper shutdown' screen appeared upon
> startup but after that all appears to be fine.
>
> DQSD looks good blending into the Aero taskbar nicely.  Now once I
> have transferred over my personal settings from the old drive I will
> be a very happy camper.
>
> Thanks for your patience and help, Kim

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread bill . hewitt
Hi Kim,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:38 +0100, you [Kim Gräsman] wrote:

}SourceForge didn't have any generic 64-bit available, so we had to
}pick AMD-64 to signify that it was a 64-bit build. We've tested it on
}Intel, as far as I remember, so it should work.

Well, it does...

}Try starting up a command window (start -> run... -> cmd) and CD into
}your temporary "unpack" dir. Then run setupx64.cmd from there and see
}what it outputs.

Ok, I managed to install from the cmd console, but not without some
hassles.  The main problem was trying to do this install without full
admin privileges.  Once that had been sorted away (and ignoring all
the MS threats) the install went smoothly.  However, upon reboot I
lost all keyboard and mouse input (they were wireless).  I tried
replacing them with wired components to no avail.  A hard shutdown was
done, and of course the 'not a proper shutdown' screen appeared upon
startup but after that all appears to be fine.

DQSD looks good blending into the Aero taskbar nicely.  Now once I
have transferred over my personal settings from the old drive I will
be a very happy camper.

Thanks for your patience and help, Kim

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi Bill,

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 15:12,   wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:49:52 +0100, you [Kim Gräsman] wrote:
>
> }Did you use the dqsdx64-4100-beta.zip from:
> }http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&package_id=34145
>
> Not exactly, the URL got mine from was as above with
> '&release_id=618124' added to it.  They both appear to be the same
> file(s).
>
> }We could've done a better job on documentation, but you're supposed to
> }unpack that zip to a temp directory, and then run the embedded
> }setupx64.cmd batch file to install DQSD.
>
> I have now done that with no result whatsoever.  Nothing on screen,
> nothing installed.  Please bear in mind that this is an Intel
> processor and not an AMD as the install file suggests.

SourceForge didn't have any generic 64-bit available, so we had to
pick AMD-64 to signify that it was a 64-bit build. We've tested it on
Intel, as far as I remember, so it should work.

Try starting up a command window (start -> run... -> cmd) and CD into
your temporary "unpack" dir. Then run setupx64.cmd from there and see
what it outputs.

Thanks,
- Kim

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread bill . hewitt
Hi Kim,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:49:52 +0100, you [Kim Gräsman] wrote:

}Did you use the dqsdx64-4100-beta.zip from:
}http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&package_id=34145

Not exactly, the URL got mine from was as above with
'&release_id=618124' added to it.  They both appear to be the same
file(s).

}We could've done a better job on documentation, but you're supposed to
}unpack that zip to a temp directory, and then run the embedded
}setupx64.cmd batch file to install DQSD.

I have now done that with no result whatsoever.  Nothing on screen,
nothing installed.  Please bear in mind that this is an Intel
processor and not an AMD as the install file suggests.

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Re: [DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread Kim Gräsman
Hi Bill,

Did you use the dqsdx64-4100-beta.zip from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42081&package_id=34145

?

We could've done a better job on documentation, but you're supposed to
unpack that zip to a temp directory, and then run the embedded
setupx64.cmd batch file to install DQSD.

If you've already run the 32-bit installer (dqsd-.exe), please
uninstall that first, and make sure DQSD is no longer in your taskbar,
and then try the instructions above.

Hope that helps,
- Kim

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 13:43,   wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just moved to a Vista 64 system and am finding it 'difficult'
> to install DQSD.
>
> I have tried both the 32 and 64 (even though it says for AMD) bit
> betas and the latest release version.
>
> All seems to go well during the install.  DQSD appears as an option in
> the toolbars, but when ticked does not appear.  Upon checking DQDS's
> folder all appears to be in order - but there is no dqsd.exe present.
>
> Help is desperately needed, this is worse than missing your morning
> coffee.
>
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[DQSD-Users] DQSD Install Problems - Vista 64

2009-02-10 Thread bill . hewitt
Hi,

I have just moved to a Vista 64 system and am finding it 'difficult'
to install DQSD.

I have tried both the 32 and 64 (even though it says for AMD) bit
betas and the latest release version.

All seems to go well during the install.  DQSD appears as an option in
the toolbars, but when ticked does not appear.  Upon checking DQDS's
folder all appears to be in order - but there is no dqsd.exe present.

Help is desperately needed, this is worse than missing your morning
coffee.

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