Vista Compatibility

[Michael Humby]

Hi,

For anyone who may be interested good news is Alpha V4.5 runs great on Vista OS.

I partitioned my laptop and loaded Vista on to a separate partition purely to test out the Alpha V4.5/Vista compatibility and so far Alpha runs sweetly. The Wise installer still functions well when loading Runtime apps.

I have set the properties of the shortcut to 'Run in XP mode' and 'Administrator' (As advised by Martin Coleman) and Alpha 4.5 Program and Runtimes appear to be running perfectly even in Aero Mode (My apps look great in Aero)

I can only vouch for V4.5 at this stage as I have not had time to test versions V5 upwards.



Michael
www.instantnurserymanager.co.uk
www.preschooler.co.uk

[Gabe]

Re: Vista Compatibility

That is good news, especially the Wise Installer. I use Wise version 9.0 Standard. I have apps in 4.5, 6, and 7. I saw a post on the V7 board recently from Alpha that V7 is not compatable with Vista.

[Michael Humby]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Hi All V4.5 users

I am still testing V4.5 Runtime apps in the Vista environment and find that the nagging prompt from Vista when opening an application that tells the user 'Windows does not recognise this program, do you wish to continue' has now disappeared and I can open my apps without the intrusion which is great. This works either with the Vista 'User Account Control set either 'On' or Off'.

Can anyone else confirm this or has Vista allowed the prompts to only run for a set number of application openings? I am not sure what to expect when I ship the Apps to a Vista user.

Another quirk of Vista is that it will not accept the following script that removes files unless the fussy 'Vista User Account Control' is set to 'Off'

dim path as c
path=:A5.Get_Exe_path()
dim index_name as c
dim files as p
dim filename as c
filename=path+chr(92)+"$$*.*"
trace.writeln(filename)
files=filefind.first(path+CHR(92)+"$$*.*")
ON ERROR GOTO ERROR_HANDLER
While .not. files.EOF()
	index_name=files.name()
	file.remove(index_name)
files.next()
End While
if is_object("B2") then
B2.show()
B2.activate()
else
:Form.view("B2")
end if
:Maintain Choice.close()
END
Error_handler:
UI_MSG_BOX("Important","Close all other programs first",16)
END

Michael
www.preschooler.co.uk
www.instantnurserymanager.co.uk

[Ohlen Cartmell]

Re: Vista Compatibility

I get a "failed to update registry" error when I start A5V4.5 in Vista Home Premium. Any thoughts on this?

[Michael Humby]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Try this:
assuming you have a desk top shorcut to open the application. Right click on the shortcut and choose 'Run as Administrator' then close and re-open let us know if the problem is solved.

Michael

[Ohlen Cartmell]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Michael,
Thanks, that did the trick.

[DaveM]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Just an added note:

I have been running V7 on Vista Home and Ultra for many months now and it works flawlessly. I have a standalone and a multiuser setup(shadowed) with a mixture of xp, 2k and both Vista's running as work stations.

I thought there was a problem with email template bodies, there was, it was me.

Had I known this, I would have never gone to v8, which is sitting and has not been used. I do sometimes use it to help others with problems they are having.

I did and still would have purchased V9 for some of the features.

All my current apps are still in V7 as there has been no time to convert to 9 and I will need to purchase a 20 user runtime for it.

Hope it helps somebody.

.

[Bill Parker]

Re: Vista Compatibility

I have a user with A5v4.5 and one machine on the network has Vista Home Basic. (I did not know it could connect to a domain, but apparently can if domain credentials are the same as workstation u/n, p/w.)

Running the application on the Vista machine is 2-3 times slower than other XP machines on the network. The Vista machine has 2.66 single core processor, but only 1G RAM. Is RAM the likely culprit for the slow speed?

Bill.

[DaveM]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Bill,

Do you have the option to run alpha in xp mode? I cannot verify with my 2 machines as I have not yet purchased the runtime.

Maybe the runtime will get less expensive so i can test in the future.



.

[Bill Parker]

Re: Vista Compatibility

I see that XP mode should be a property in the shortcut. I'll try that tonight when I get on their machine.

Bill.

[Martin]

Re: Vista Compatibility

I have recently moved an A5 V4.5 application from XP to Vista. Everything seems fine, except that the date no longer displays in the European format (today, 16th April 2009, displayed as 16/04/09) and now appears everywhere (browses, forms, tables, etc.) as 04/16/09. The application has worked well for a decade or so and the user has no desire to upgrade A5. I can't remember how to change date format. Any ideas?

Many thanks.

Martin.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Google, regional settings vista. It is not an Alpha internal setting.

[Martin]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Thanks Stan, long time since we conversed. I should have mentioned that I think my local settingas are correct, all other apps seem to display in European format and the Properties of the icon calling A5 displays dates in that format, too. I'll check again, though, and post to the forum if I find anything that I should have done.

Thanks again.

[Martin]

Re: Vista Compatibility

Strange. I changed the Vista short date from dd/MM/yyyy to dd/MM/yy and A5 displays 16/04/2009 (yes, the full year) instead of 04/16/2009. Odd, but I'm not complaining!

You must have generated some sort of cosmic energy, Stan. I didn't feel a thing!

Best wishes,

Martin.