Subject Re: Windows 8 - dBase 2.8 installation incompatability?
From Bruce Beacham <bbeacham@no-plm-lowman.co.uk>
Date Sat, 05 Apr 2014 08:22:27 +0100
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

On 04/04/2014 14:43, Pieter van Heerden wrote:
> If I run my application under Windows 8, starting in dBase through
 > the Applicationname.prg, the application runs sweetly, with
 > everything in place.  If I install on Windows 8 , I get an error
 > message on Windows 8: "Could not load plusrun.exe, error 740".  The
 > advised additions/changes have been made.
I find I get this when the manifest has "asInvoker" but not when the
manifest has "Administrator".    But that's on an OS < 8, I don't have a
Win8 machine to play with.

Of course, the Administrator route means that the user gets asked by UAC
every time whether the app is OK to be run...

> If I install  on a Windows 7 computer, the application runs, except
 > that it links up to a wrong menu file, its menu is replaced by
 > another one.
That is surely an app error of some sort, isn't it?   Could the wrong
menu file have been saved, compiled and installed under the menufile
name of the correct file?

Try superseding the menufile with a menufile placed in a DEO folder.
From the OLH:
"dBASE Plus searches objects as follows:

It looks in the "home" folder from which the application was launched.

It looks in the .ini file to see if there's a series of search paths
specified. It checks all the paths in the list looking for the object
file requested by the application.

It looks inside the application's .exe file, the way Visual dBASE did in
the past."


> If I install it on an XP computer, it starts up, shows the flash
 > screen and then dies off.
Ensure you have an XP manifest file.   I believe they changed on the way
into Vista.   Here is the plusrun manifest for XP:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
     version="1.0.0.0"
     processorArchitecture="X86"
     name="PLUSRUN.EXE"
     type="win32"
/>
<description>PLUSRUN.EXE Manifest</description>
<dependency>
         <dependentAssembly>
                 <assemblyIdentity
                         type="win32"
                         name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
                         version="6.0.0.0"
                         processorArchitecture="X86"
                         publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
                         language="*"
                 />
         </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>



Bruce Beacham