Conference 7.286::digital_investing

Trayquote runs fine on my Intel PC with Windows 95..... however, it
won't even try to install on my AlphaStation running NT 4.0 (with FX!32).

When I start "setup", I get a window full of garbage characters, then a 
message box that says:

"the dynamic link library MSVCRT40.DLL could not be found in the specified 
  path C:\winnt.......

 C:\WINNT\MSVCRTV40.DLL is not at Intel image. It appears to be an Alpha 
  image"

Then after clicking on okay a few times, install terminates.

Is there any way to get it to run in this environment ??

Thanks

Arlan

    Are you using the Install x86 application?
    
    Did you unzip the kit or are you trying to get the self-extracting
    archive to explode - it doesn't work!
    
    I have it working fine on an AlphaServer here.
    
    Someone did report a problem with an image being missing from their
    system because they didn't have Office installed, I think I put a note
    in the Readme?
    
    -Paul

    Try asking in the TALLIS::FX32 conf.
    

	I tried installing it on an Intel Windows NT 4.0 system and
	it complains when starting up that it 

	"Can't load (or register) custom control UDPPRO32.OCX"

	Any clue?

								mike

    Just checking, you are using the latest version, as this was a problem
    with an earlier release.
    
    Also the ActiveX control is called UDPPOR32.OCX but I assume this was
    just a typo.
    
    -Paul

<	I tried installing it on an Intel Windows NT 4.0 system and
<	it complains when starting up that it 
<
<	"Can't load (or register) custom control UDPPRO32.OCX"

Mike,
   I had a similar problem running on an ALPHA. I determined that it was a
missing MFCANS32.DLL file. Do you get an error about a missing file if you 
execute UDPPOR32.OCX?
   
   The following was added to the readme file as a result of the problems I
had. I suspect that this may relevant to  X86 systems as well.

<- Trayquote will run on Alpha NT V4.0 if FX32! is installed, one user of the
<previous version reported a problem with installation because a file,
<MFCANS32.DLL, didn't exist. As this was the only case I decided not to include
<the installation of this file by default but to provide it within the kit for
<manual installation if needed. It should go in \WINNT\SYS32X86.

Geoff..

>    Are you using the Install x86 application?

I just double-click on "setup" from the TQV2 kit...
    
>    Did you unzip the kit or are you trying to get the self-extracting
>    archive to explode - it doesn't work!

Tried both - they both extract fine, I get all the files I need, but trying
to run setup after the extract I get the garbage errors and Intel image 
messages.
    
>    Someone did report a problem with an image being missing from their
>    system because they didn't have Office installed, I think I put a note
>    in the Readme?
    

Saw the note, but that's not the problem I'm having... I wish I could 
show you the setup window I get - it's two lines full of things that look 
like they should be words, but instead of letters a-z, it's made up of 
symbols like a telephone, squares, arrows, diamonds, etc. Then I get the 
error window about msvcrt.dll not being an Intel image....

Arlan

I found msvcrt40.dll on my system 4 times:

 C:\fx32\msvcrt40.dll                    size=607kb  - Alpha image
 C:\WINNT\msvcrt40.dll                   size=567kb  - Alpha image
 C:\WINNT\sys32x86\msvcrt40.dll          size= 64kb  (???) Intel image
 C:\WINNT\system32\msvcrt40.dll          size=607kb  - Alpha image


I copied the original Intel image (C:\WINNT\sys32x86\msvcrt40.dll) to 
C:\WINNT\msvcrt40.dll and trayquote installed, even though the setup 
window was full of the garbage symbol characters.... looks like an FX!32 
issue since FX!32 had translated msvcrt40.dll to become an Alpha image.

Arlan

FX!32 doesn't translate images in place. i.e. FX!32 did not change
the installed msvcrt40.dll from an X86 dll to an Alpha dll.
It's not clear why you would have an msvcrt40.dll in your windows
directory in any case.

I installed trayquote using FX!32 V1.1 and didn't have any 'funny
characters' display on the screen. The icon seemed to work fine,
reporting the unhappy news that the DJIA closed down 47.33.

Regards, Jim...

Something else you installed put an Alpha copy of MSVCRT40.DLL into
\WINNT (which is the wrong location for that file).

In any case, from the MSDN, the default order in which DLLs are searched for:

>1.	The directory from which the application loaded. 
You didn't install it into the \WINNT directory did you?

>2.	The current directory.
Are you running it from the \WINNT directory?

---> FX!32 Addition
>3a.     The 32-bit x86 windows system directory \WINNT\Sys32x86

>3b.	Windows 95: The Windows system directory. Use the
>	GetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this directory.
>
>	Windows NT: The 32-bit Windows system directory. Use the
>	GetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this directory.
>	The name of this directory is SYSTEM32.
>
>
>4.	Windows NT: The 16-bit Windows system directory. There is no
>	Win32 function that obtains the path of this directory, but it is
>	searched. The name of this directory is SYSTEM.
>5.	The Windows directory. Use the GetWindowsDirectory function
>	to get the path of this directory. 
>6.	The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable. 

In any case there shouldn't be an MSVCRT40.DLL int \WINNT *and* (as Jim stated)
FX!32 doesn't ever replace an x86 image with an Alpha image.

...tom