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    Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

    In Alpha 5 version 9, I have created a simple application for desktop use. I have a runtime license for this version so I use the Create Install Package in order to distribute my app. No errors creating the install package. I go to another PC running Windows XP Pro with all service packs and updates, install the app, and run it. For one second a window opens that looks like a blank Alpha control panel then disappears. That�s all that happens. I have tried to install this on two other PCs - same results. Any ideas what I�m doing wrong? Thanks.
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    Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

    Not sure but I have had similar situations when I have some bad code/calculation happening when a database opens and crashes Alpha immediately as you have stated. Do you have an autoexec script running ...if so hold the Control+Shift to bypass it and see if that is it.
    Mike
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      Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

      I seem to have the exact same situation here.
      I notice that the same problem exists on my development system and that it makes no sense to create the install as it is not going to work.
      Now I am testing the application in the runengine on my development system and found out that when I eliminate the use of the autoexec script, the application works properly.
      I wonder if the use of a start up form and autoexec are mutually exclusive.
      In the autoexec I use the "throttle" to check for a single user.
      Keeping the first not properly working instance open, I started the application as a second instance. That triggers the throttle function with an error message about exceeding license count, so that seems to work allright.

      I wonder if anybody has a solution to our problem?

      Regards,

      Jo Hulsen
      The Netherlands
      Jo Hulsen
      Dommel Valley Solutions
      The Netherlands

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        Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

        I removed the auto start up (thanks for the suggestion) and tried again. Now I get an error:
        The procedure entry point ?GetModule@CXbasicExecutable@@UAEPAXJ@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library A5XBASIC.dll
        At least now the brick wall I'm hitting has a name.

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          Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

          Allen,

          Good news for you, your brick wall now has a name.
          The bad news is that my brick wall is still anonymous.

          Did you consider to refresh the zip file of the runtime. That can be done as part of the InstallMaker process. Maybe that could solve your problem?

          Regards,

          Jo Hulsen
          The Netherlands
          Jo Hulsen
          Dommel Valley Solutions
          The Netherlands

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            Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

            I think the problem is I'm using RunTime with an active link. According to documentation I'll have use the Run Engine.

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              Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

              You could very well be right on that.

              Meanwhile I have made some progress and got things working again.
              It seems that setting too many restrictions before creating the install has something to do with the problem on my side. I removed some of them on my development system, created the install and got it to do what it's made for.

              Regards,

              Jo Hulsen
              The Netherlands
              Jo Hulsen
              Dommel Valley Solutions
              The Netherlands

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                Re: Custom A5v9 App Opens Then Closes

                Jo,
                I wonder if the use of a start up form and autoexec are mutually exclusive.
                No--they can be used at the same time and is done, I would say, most of the time by developers.

                If your problem does go away when you disable the autoexec script then I would pursue that avenue of attack.
                Mike
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                It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
                It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
                Henry David Thoreau
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