Error 0,0 in Windows Standalone

pkc pkc at mac.com
Sat Jul 31 22:44:32 EDT 2004


Okay, somebody help me with this one. I have been a Revolution user 
very happily for years now.  I've always been able to work around 
minor bugs, etc., and have made extensive use in my teaching of 
Revolution's ability to build for virtually all platforms. But now I 
am completely stumped, and I don't even think it is a bug. But 
everything has ground to a halt (it's serious).

I use a Macintosh G5 running OS X 10.3.4.  When the term began in 
June, I was, as usual, devising my teaching modules, building them in 
Rev 2.1.2, and distributing them to the students, a majority of whom 
are Windows users. As the term develops I add functions to the 
module, so there are something like six updates in any term. Sometime 
in early July (can't be sure of the date), I upgraded to 2.2.1 and 
then 2.2CR2 in rapid succession.  Then when I went to do the next 
build, I couldn't get the Windows apps built at all. The Revolution 
staff was extremely helpful in running down the URL problem with 
downloading the Win32 engine (I saw that another user had this 
problem and raised it in this forum).  I thought that had solved the 
problem.

But no.  I could build the Windows applications after downloading the 
engine. A normal-looking .exe file is built on my G5. But nobody has 
been able to use the applications on a Windows machine, and I can't 
use them on the Windows XP machine I keep for testing software.  When 
transferred via FTP, the application looks exactly like an OS X 
bundle.  The Windows machine just sees a .ds store file and two ghost 
applications that will not run.  Trying to run them gets the "0,0" 
error (whatever that is). Burning the .exe file onto a CD from the G5 
produces, at least, a single entity on the Windows desktop, but it 
has what I think of as the "elemental" icon (it just looks like a 
blank GUI window), and when you try to run it you get the "0,0" 
error.  The properties window says it is an application and all looks 
fine, but the things will not run.  We have moved them every 
whichaway, over SMB, AFP, TCP, FTP, CD roms formatted in every 
possible mode, external hard drives also formatted every way there 
is, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to get the standalones 
to run in Windows.

If this were a bug I'm sure you'd all be hotting up the forum talking 
about it. Obviously I'm doing something wrong. I am using the same 
settings in the standalone builder that I used in the old builder. 
So far as I can see is that the only thing that has changed is the 
upgrade to 2.2x, after which my course ground to a halt. What am I 
missing?

Thanks for any help,
Pamela Crossley
Norwich, Vermont, USA


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