Machsupport Forum

Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Screen designer tips and tutorials => Topic started by: timmi on September 01, 2010, 04:26:16 AM

Title: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: timmi on September 01, 2010, 04:26:16 AM

need help....- after installing a new motherboard,
I can´t install or use screen4 any more... 
Can open the screen4 program and locate the screen....set file,
but the functional screen.set does not open in screen4 - instead
I see one small message window with yellow exclamation mark  sign...
than the screen4 surface stalls - i have to kill it in the windows xp system...

any hints?
would be glad to get it working again ((-:

thanks
timmi ???

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: ger21 on September 01, 2010, 07:08:42 AM

Go to Defaults menu and point to the Mach3 folder.

Title: Re: screen4 can load screenset (-:
Post by: timmi on September 01, 2010, 08:19:47 AM

thank you!!!    easy, fast & great solution!!!!!    :D :D

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: zephyr9900 on October 19, 2011, 01:17:15 PM

Gerry, what does Screen4 need from the Mach3 folder?  I'd like to install Screen4 on my thumbdrive so I can work on screensets during my lunch hour, on a PC without Mach installed.  Copying over my *set and birmaps folder doesn't work so I figure something else is missing.  I haven't been able to find the answer here in the forums, maybe I'm searching wrong...

Thanks,

Randy

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: budman68 on October 19, 2011, 01:40:00 PM

Randy,

I "think" it needs the screen 4 xml file as well.

Dave

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: budman68 on October 19, 2011, 01:44:24 PM

Yes, just loaded the Screen4 xml, the screen 4 program and the bitmaps folder and it loaded right up.

Dave

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: zephyr9900 on October 19, 2011, 02:04:17 PM

Ah, great, thank you very much for the quick reply, Dave.  I will give that a try tonight.

Randy

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: ger21 on October 19, 2011, 02:56:55 PM

I'll check when I get home.

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: zephyr9900 on October 19, 2011, 05:14:17 PM

Thank you, Gerry.

Randy

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: ger21 on October 19, 2011, 06:49:55 PM

I think you'll also want:
buttons.txt
DROs.txt
and
Leds.txt

It would appear that these are lists for predefined objects.
I would think that the .xml would create itself when running Screen4, since it doesn't come with the download, and there's no installer.

Title: Re: screen4 can´t load screenset )-:
Post by: zephyr9900 on October 19, 2011, 08:47:02 PM

OK, I've got some more digging to do.

The three txt files are part of the Screen4 archive so are automatically in its directory.

The screen4.xml file in the Mach3 directory on my home desktop PC (installed but never run) where there is a functional copy of Screen4 consists of:

Quote

<profile><Locations><MachLocation>c:\mach3</MachLocation></Locations></profile>

so that is indeed only pointing to the absolute path of Mach3.exe (kind of pointless, it seems to me, since screen4.exe is specifically installed in the same directory of mach3.exe...)

OK, I just tried copying the whole installed-but-never-run Mach3 directory from my desktop to thumbdrive, ran screen4.exe and pointed it to the directory on my thumbdrive, exited, re-entered and loaded my screenset.  I'll just take whatever extra baggage is along for the ride... ;)

Thanks for your replies, Dave and Gerry. :)

Randy