16-bit display and radar

[flibble]

When I set my desktop to 16-bit colors, the radar view is empty except for the blue cross lines, everything else seems to be drawn fine.

 

Also, when I use the auto update, it asks me if I want to install the update now, I click 'yes' and then I get a runtime error '429': ActiveX component can't create object. Then I just double click DCMEupdate.exe and it updates.

[Samapico]

Ok... With your description, I'm pretty sure

Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

causes the error for you... Using XP?

 

I'll make sure to trap that particular error and say something like 'Close DCME and execute DCMEupdate.exe'

That line is used to rename the current dcme.exe (that's probably it, it might now work on every system to rename a running exe?) so the update file could extract the new exe without any problem

 

A few other people had this error... I'd like to know a few things that might help me know who exactly gets this error:

OS?

Do you have .NET framework installed? (and which version)

... that's all

 

 

When I set my desktop to 16-bit colors, the radar view is empty except for the blue cross lines, everything else seems to be drawn fine.

I don't know if that is related, but I used DCME on my computer via Remote Desktop Connection, and the radar view wasn't working either... everything relying on setpixel just didn't work...

[flibble]

A few other people had this error... I'd like to know a few things that might help me know who exactly gets this error:

OS?

Do you have .NET framework installed? (and which version)

... that's all

 

I was afraid it was something to do with .NET. I'm running XP SP2 without any .NET installed

[Drake7707]

i use DMA access to change things with pixels, and it relies on 24 bit (3bytes per pixel), guess what happens when DCME changes pixels with 3bytes per pixel when there are only 2bytes per pixel ?