Does anyone know if Powerbuilder 10 is compatible with Windows 8 (Both the IDE and the runtime module)?
It seems like 11.5 is officially supported, but I couldn't find any info on PB 10's compatibility on Windows 8.
If it isn't, any tips on the migration process from 10->Further version? (Anything particular we have to watch out for?)
You should have no problem with running PB10 applications on Windows 8, appart perhaps not being not fully compliant with Win8 standards (concerning the placement of application data files, access rights on files, and so on mostly related to UAC file virtualization).
Neither you should have big problems with running the IDE, but maybe some minor issues (I think about an issue on the retrieval argument editor on PB11.5 that could also address PB10).
This is one of those things where you just have to try it yourself. The number of PowerBuilder developers with Windows 8 is likely very small.
I am supposed to be getting a Surface Pro 2 when they come out Oct 22nd which will run Windows 8.1. Hopefully there won't be any issues.
I am not sure about PB10 but I have used PB 10.5 in Win8 with no problem.
We have serious issues with running a PB10 application on Windows 8 computers.
Application runs fine until user enters text in datawindow fields, the application "stopped working". The problem is that it happens randomly, 10 fields can be entered without a problem but at the next field the "stopped working" pops up en the application is closed the next time it might happen after entering 2 fields.
The same application runs already for years on many computers unders XP, Vista, Windows 7 without any issue.
Until now we still have no clou what is causing it. Also we have no idea where to start searching.
The application is developed andf deployed under XP.
Next week we are going to setup a development environment under Windows, hopefully this will give us some more light on the issue.
Two things you need to realize:
PB10 was built (and support development stopped) before before Win8 was conceived, so obviously Sybase couldn't do anything in PB to help with Win8 compatibility. You're relying on MS's ability to maintain a backward compatible environment. IME, they do a pretty good job (better than my experience upgrading in the Unix world, but I'd imagine YMMV), but it's never perfect.
PowerBuilder is powerful enough to allow you to build an application that will break under any operating system. PB10 may have been supported on XP, but I guarantee you that I could have written something that violated an XP rule, or corrupted memory, or whatever, and would have been broken under XP. (I've seen memory corruptions that didn't manifest themselves until after an OS upgrade or some other change; so "broken" may not even manifest symptoms yet.) Is that Sybase's fault? I don't think so. They're the rope manufacturer; if you hang yourself....
Bottom line is what's already been said: no matter what the manufacturer or anyone else says, the only answer worth anything is the results of your own testing. My "Hello World" app may run in Win8 just fine, but your app that taps into the TCP/IP stack, leverage protected mode calls, sending printing language codes directly to the point-of-sale bar code printer, etc....
Good luck,
Terry.
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My first stack overflow question, here we go.
Last week the computer on which a prototype vision application written in C#/.net was running crashed due to an unreleated reason. this resulted in the need to fresh install windows (windows 10 IOT). after installing windows, halcon 20.11 progress and setting the licenses the application starts, but no output is shown on the smart window control, even tho this worked beforehand?
i have been trying to debug this problem for the last day, but have had no luck, what i have allready tried:
used the remote debugging toe verify that the image is captured and processed and "displayed".
checked the system logs for any warnings, there were none.
Tried one of the example programs the come with Halcon, which also does **not **work.
Ran the application on my development PC, which worked flawlessly as it always did.
Reinstalling Halcon.
does anyone have had any similar experiences and/or any clue how to solve this problem?
problem has been solved. in the end a reset of the bios settings to there default values did the trick. Don't know what they exact cooperative was, but at least it works once again.
I had been using Platform-IO up to 2019 but when I reopened a project things started getting worse and worse. Tasks disappeared and it took a while to be able to compile again. Now Platform-IO has disappeared completely and I was getting deprecation warnings in the "Toggle developer tool' console.
Now after a complete reinstall of VS, Platform-IO etc. the IDE is still not functioning and I regret ever using it. It is like you jump into your car begging it to start. For professional use (able to restart your car every day without a mechanics) this solution needed to be solid and reliable which it does not seem to be. I will have to switch to another IDE I guess. The name Microsoft should have make me hesitate ...
I am using Windows 7 Professional and NO I WILL NOT UPGRADE THE OS.
Is there any means to install a functioning VS-Code / Platform-IO on Windows 7 or is it just an idea of an IDE ?
Sorry to appear mean but "Making you more productive" sounds like a scorn.
I recently tried installing Platform IO on a Win 7 PC of a colleague and experienced similar issues like you. Seems like current Platform IO versions / builds are not compatible and therefore not runnable on Windows 7.
Only idea comes to my mind is using legacy / previous releases of VS Code and Platform IO (manual plugin installation with a legacy release) to get a runnable environment on Win 7, but I didn't test it since I ended up installing a recent Ubuntu next to Win 7. (Seemed like a better solution to me).
Here you can find all of the older releases of VS Code & Platform IO:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_previous-release-versions
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_64
https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core/releases
Good luck ;)
I use Codewarrior
- V4.7 for HCS12X
- V6.3 for HCS08
in Windows XP.
Moving CW to Windows 10 seems impossible.
It won’t install, and dongle licensing does not work.
I have tried to figure this out on the NXP site, but I find it extremely difficult and confusing.
Which Codewarrior is needed for HCS12X and HCS08 in 32 and 64 bit Windows 10?
Yeah it is nearly impossible. I've struggled lots with this problem. There is an unofficial "hack" someone made - won't link it because my browser says the site is unsafe. However, it would seem that hack only works up to Windows 8, not on Windows 10. I have both IDEs (HCS08 and HCS12) running perfectly on a Windows 7 machine, with dongle license.
We managed to get it running so-so on Windows 10 by doing a dirty hard copy of the hacked installation folder to Windows 10. Various mysterious bugs followed though, so not the best idea.
Another option is to run the Windows XP mode emulator from Microsoft, but it is no longer supported for Windows 10.
So ultimately there are two options left if you are stuck with Windows 10:
Move development to the worst IDE ever released, Codewarrior for Eclipse. Please note that the future of this IDE is uncertain after the NXP merger. They might decide to put their money on their other trash IDE, LPCxpresso.
Port your project to another compiler or MCU.
I would recommend to install it in a VMWare or virtualBox container using Windows 7 as OS.
This makes it possible, that your installation will work even in some years.
I'm using such a container (with WinXP) for an old Visual Basic 6 installation and HEW-IDE.
You should use at least Win7, to avoid the network problems with WinXP (SMB1 can't be connected anymore).
There is a Codewarrior Classic 6.3 community project for RS08, S08, ColdFire V1 for Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10. Basically, the installer is repacked will all service packs and patches for USBDM and PEMicro tools.
If you have an obsolete programming tool you will need to use CW 6.3 on XP. Also, if you have these specific family of parts S08: RN, RNA, PA, PT, Kinetis (including Tower), ColdFire V2 you must use the bloated eclipse version CodeWarrior 11
For S12 or S12X CodeWarrior Classic 5.2 for Windows 7 - Windows 10
But when they released 5.2 they removed most of the older derivatives from it, but you can add them back using this procedure CodeWarrior 5.2
I have my processing code in dev/processing and my Arduino code put itself in Documents/Arduino.
However, whenever I get into one environment, it changes the most recent directory for the other because Arduino is written in processing.
Is there any quick way to disconnect the two environments so that they don't use the same location for "most recent directory?" I don't know whether the mechanism is a file, a registry entry or what, but I'm on Windows 8.1
I am using both Arduino IDE as well as Processing 2.1.2 in Windows 7 environment. It doesn't change the directory.
Since you are using Windows 8.1 (which is recently released), you may face very weird problems as those softwares are not tested on those OS. You will find errors for even other softwares that are designed before Windows 8.
OS: Win 8.1, x86
I am trying to develop an IFilter for a proprietary file format. The IPersistStream interface is implemented in the filter (although there is no tool to test this interface...). The DLL goes through all the tests in the IFilter test suite (ifilttst, filtdump, filtreg; ifilttst emitted property/values are correct), it is installed in c:\windows\system32 but it is not properly run by SearchFilterHost.exe used by Windows indexing services. Nothing is indexed.
I used Process Monitor (procmon.exe) to look at when SearchFilterHost is using the IFilter. During re-indexing of the disk or when a file name handled by the IFilter is changed, SearchFilterHost loads the image of the IFilter, but then nothing else happens.
Dependency Walker found DLLs that were missing (some are found in the c:\windows\system32) (IEHIMS.DLL, API-MS-WIN-CORExxx.DLL etc...) but I doubt (I could be wrong) it would make much of a difference because the ifilttst is running fine.
I am at my wit's end. Could someone help?
Thanks