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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: titchener on March 07, 2013, 08:13:18 PM

Title: Problems running Screen4 on XP SP2 machine
Post by: titchener on March 07, 2013, 08:13:18 PM

I'm bringing up a Mach3 controlled lathe using an XP machine with SP2 loaded.

Mach3 runs fine on it but I need to tweak the screen and when I try to run Screen4 on the machine it craps out after loading the screen.
It puts up a bunch of error message boxes but they don't have any message in them so I can't tell what wrong.
The machine is pretty stripped down with hardly any other apps on it and screen4 runs fine on my office machine.

I need to be able to run screen4 right on the machine as I need to tweak some of the hotkey settings and so I need to run right on the machine that has the ipac based machine controller on it.

Do I have to put an additional runitime library or dll to allow screen4 to run on the machine?

Title: Re: Problems running Screen4 on XP SP2 machine
Post by: ger21 on March 07, 2013, 08:51:17 PM

In Screen4, click on Defaults, and point it to your Mach3 installation folder. Each of those message boxes is because it can't find a bitmap.

Title: Re: Problems running Screen4 on XP SP2 machine
Post by: titchener on March 07, 2013, 09:23:53 PM

Thanks Gerry, i did install mach to a different directory name so that was the problem.