MIDS Issue -- Launch Crash

[Captain Amazing]

Hey all, was told it might be something to post but I can't get MIDS to launch even with the newest version now. It instantly crashes and i transmit my data and nuffin works ;_; Is it me or something in the newest build?

-C.A.

[St0n3y]

Sounds like it may be an issue with your .net install, but that is just a guess.  Can you copy and paste the error you get when Mids' crashes, or maybe a screenshot?

[Captain Amazing]

http://yfrog.com/3dcturvj
How's this? :)

[Aggelakis]

WHEN does it crash? IMMEDIATELY on launch? After launch but before the little loading-banner shows up? After the loading-banner shows up? Etc.

[Captain Amazing]

WHEN does it crash? IMMEDIATELY on launch? After launch but before the little loading-banner shows up? After the loading-banner shows up? Etc.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAUNCH. o.o THATS when it crashes ^_^

[Captain Amazing]

So I assume .... .net is broken? how does one fix that? o.o;

[Steiner]

Check the following folders for Mids installations

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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)

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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local

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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming

And of course either you x86 or standard Program Files directory off the local disk root.

If it's in any it might be in a folder label "Titan Network"

Uninstall (or just delete) any that you find, and re-install the newest version. I can't really tell what version of windows you are running, but from the look of that error prompt, I would guess Windows 2000/Windows Server... which might be your first problem. Anyways, if the above links don't work, your can use them to try and check you Application Data folder's correct path. I'm sure there are google articles on it.

[Aggelakis]

but from the look of that error prompt, I would guess Windows 2000/Windows Server...

"ass" "u" "me"

My windows look like that (well, a different color) and I'm on Windows XP, using the old windows theme.

[Steiner]

... not sure where assume came from... I used the word guess, not assume. They are quite different... you being an writer for pwiki, thought you would know that.

Anyways... Mids might be dependent on the XP Visual Styles, so if Aggelakis is correct in her... well correction; possibly flipping XP Visual Styles to ON might fix your issue.

[Aggelakis]

I use Mids with no issues, so it's definitely not depending on any kind of theme.

[Captain Amazing]

Repaired faulty 2.0 install after messing with msconfig, thansk though :)

[Steiner]

BUAH!?

It's moments like these I'm temped to include the .Net DLLs with the project instead of depending on that distribution lol.

But the size of the application would likely double and cause problems down the road I'm sure.

[eabrace]

Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to have the planner check for the correct .NET and throw up a dialog box stating "This planner requires the .NET X.X framework.  If you encounter any issues starting or running the planner, please update your .NET installation."

Or something like that.

Just a thought.

(Maybe it already does that and I just don't know it.)

[Steiner]

I would, but package support isn't NSIS strong suite. (The installation exe tool). I'll look into it, there are a few things we'll need NSIS to do on the next release, this is definitely one of them.