CoH FOE v 0.5 BETA released!

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Yes, that's the Visual Basic richtextbox control... it's supposed to automatically install in your System folder when you install the program.... I'm unfamiliar with Vista, does it use a "system" folder like XP does?

EDIT: I just found out that my Installer has an option of Windows/System and Windows/System64... so I added the Richtextboxcontrol to the 64 directory too.... try uninstalling, redownloading the new installer and reinstalling... please tell me how it works out for you.

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I uninstalled both the CoH FOE and VB Runtime, then re-installed VB Runtime and then CoH FOE.

Same error.

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LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control

One feature you should add to it is use of the IMG tag. That's disabled on this board, but it would be a handy feature to add if you wanted to make it more generic.

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Hmmm... I'm going to do some research on Vista and see what I need to do to get the control file to where it needs to go.... I will get this fixed somehow.

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One feature you should add to it is use of the IMG tag. That's disabled on this board, but it would be a handy feature to add if you wanted to make it more generic.

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Did you read the latest version notes?

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Hmmm... I'm going to do some research on Vista and see what I need to do to get the control file to where it needs to go.... I will get this fixed somehow.

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Thanks so much, as your editor looks awesome.

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LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control

Dang.

This is kinda reminding me of the old ANSI editors you used to find for BBSes...

Guess I'm dating myself.

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Is that a good or a bad thing? That's before my time

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Oh man, it looks like you already have some competition!!!

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And that's from like 4 years ago... O SNAP! Mine's cooler though... it's BLUE!

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Well, I'm going to go watch Drag Me To Hell, please keep me updated on your progress Local_Man and I'll continue working on it once I get back.

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Yours should also be made a lot easier to find! Than that one, I mean.

You make it easy to use, easy to find, and easy to download and install, I think you'd have a guaranteed hit.

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Good thing would be my guess. I myself have a fond nostalgia induced response to the sound of modems and remember using programs like Bluewave offline mail reader to batch download posts, reply off line, and upload them all back later.

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Okay, working with Local_man, solution found. As I suspected, it was Vista's retarded over-protective security.

Any Vista users that are having an issue running the program, do the following steps:

Uninstall any copies of the program

Download the latest version

Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista

Install the Program

Try to run it

If it still fails: Do this, that should fix it.

This isn't a problem with my program, it's a program with Vista's idiotic overly sensitive security.

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Yep. It was a real pain, as I had to download a file, put it in the Windows/System32 subdirectory and then try to get it registered . . . Only the command line had to be running in administrator mode. What a Pain in the Tail.

Thanks so much for the help!

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LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control

I'd love to remake it as a WYSIWYG editor, but honestly, I'm not going to do it until we find out how much "life" these forums have left. I'd hate to put in all the effort to make a WYSIWYG editor and then find out that we'll be switching over to another forum in a couple months.

Any other features that anyone would like to see in FOE that's not already there?

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I can add code into the MIDDLE of a post, unlike the online editor which always pushes code to the end

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Quick note to make - it's only FireFox that pushes code to the end of a post. Internet Explorer, and I've tested this with 6, 7 and 8, will insert code right where your cursor is in the text field. I'm not sure why that is, but trying it now cause IE8 to ask me to allow an ActiveX script to run for the pop-up link window, so I assume how each browser handles these is what makes the difference.

Because I prefer FireFox, however, I've learned to simply never insert code. I've become "hardcore" and type all my tags by hand

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Nifty idea, some tips

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<ul type="square">[*]No longer saves a "settings.ini" file in every directory where someone saves a text file to. Now only saves one in the program's directory.[/list]

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Also - what installer program are you using? I use InnoSetup for my custom programs (very easy to use and free) - InnoSetup provides the option to bundle required items (like runtime files) with the installer and install them if necessary - it can also be configured to download the required items and install them (either from your web host or you can set it to download direct from MS).

Other than that good job and keep it up

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Standards say

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Who's standards? Link?

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what installer program are you using?

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Advanced Installer

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I use InnoSetup for my custom programs

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I'll take a look at it, thanks for the tip.

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Anyone using FOE might want to uninstall and re-download the version that's online right now. It's not a "new" version exactly, but I wanted to push it out ASAP. Nothing major warranting a new version number, it's just that the Underline function was moving the selection by one character, which screwed up multiple text formatting.

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Standards say

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Who's standards? Link?


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Windows programming standards, especially since Vista came about with UAC - writing config files to the program folder will either 1) need elevated permissions, or 2) write to the Virtual Store for that folder [Vista] (\Users\{username}\appdata\local\virtualstore\...)

Writing config files to the Application Data path allows 1) UAC to be bypassed without requiring elevated permissions, 2) multiple users able to have different options for the same software program.

Some links: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310294 - skip down to Classify Application Data.

Heres an article about how UAC affects application development in Vista: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530410.aspx

It is the same sort of standard (basically over looked) that says Game Files should be stored in the Documents\My Games folder [thus providing a central location to backup save games - not many games use this, but most modern games do write save games to the Documents folder - you will notice that older games that are installed to Program Files and that normally are set to save games in the program folder will either require elevation or use the Virtual Store (default action)] - many developers overlook small things like this, leading to more UAC frustration than needed on Vista systems and config file sharing on XP systems.

Not trying to criticise, just putting some info out there that has helped me develop custom apps that don't run afoul of UAC. The only reason I brought it up is because of Vista to be honest; I used to use the Program folder for config files as well but found some articles and tips on using AppData instead and things have gone much smoother.

(Note: In older versions of VB there is no My.Settings namespace, you have to either create a custom namespace/object or use the APPDATA environmental variable)


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what installer program are you using?

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Advanced Installer

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I use InnoSetup for my custom programs

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I'll take a look at it, thanks for the tip.

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No problem, just trying to share some knowledge with the world

[Disclaimer: I am not a guru by any means - tips I give are meant to be helpful but are not necessarily the only way to go. YMMV. Dislcaimers are just another way of seeing if people get the gist behind a post or find nitpicky things with it ]

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I don't use Vista, I use XP, and I'm using Visual Basic 5. I have no idea how I would implement this.

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I have used it for a couple of posts and it seems to work well. Ran into a problem on one post where I pasted in two builds from Mids, and then the message wouldn't display on the forums. Got really frustrated until I realized that I must have exceeded the character limit. So, I split the post into two, and it worked fine.

Where this is most useful is for drafting guides and long posts, especially with a wonky wireless connection. It would be very nice if it was WYSIWYG, but that would take a huge amount of time, and I am very thankful to have a nice little tool to make part of posting easier. Thanks very much.

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LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control

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I don't use Vista, I use XP, and I'm using Visual Basic 5. I have no idea how I would implement this.

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This article might help http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252652

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Where this is most useful is for drafting guides and long posts, especially with a wonky wireless connection. It would be very nice if it was WYSIWYG, but that would take a huge amount of time, and I am very thankful to have a nice little tool to make part of posting easier. Thanks very much.

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I have just decided to halt all feature improvements on CoH FOE, and only apply bug fixes. Why? Because I have no idea when we'll finally get the new forums.

So, instead of new features for FOE, I will be working on making sure it's rock solid, and at the same time....



....I'll be working on a WYSIWYG editor for the NEW forums!

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Crap, I just checked out the new boards again, and it looks like they already have a built in WYSIWYG editor.

Would anyone STILL be interested in an "offline" forum editor if you already had a full editor like that online? I would like to see if there would be any interest... if not, why bother?

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