Windows failed to initialize

[Derek Bump]

Joe,

My apologies for sending you into uncharted waters. :)

Resource Hacker is a wonderful little utility that allows you to modify 
many different types of files on Windows, particularity DLL's and EXE's. 
  You can get it from: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

The "resources" it allows you to modify depends on what the file 
contains, but with Revolution Standalones, you can modify the Icons that 
are embedded into the Standalone, as well as the Version information 
that it places there (or at least before version 2.8 you could).

It can do major damage to a file, so you should always use it on copies 
of files and not the originals.  Regarding the Initialization Error, I 
have no idea what is causing it.  I just noticed that the engine is 
different from previous versions, which may explain why the new resource 
is in there.  Who knows, maybe it's for Vista Compatability or something.


Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com/



Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> Thanks, Derek, and I should have mentioned that I'm using the latest Rev 
> version, build 360.
> 
> However you're getting me into uncharted waters. I've done nothing with 
> the version info about the standalone, because I didn't even know 
> something like that could be addressed and where and how to do it. 
> "Resource Hacker"? What's that?
> 
> "Standalone Resources"? Again, where and how? Sorry for being such a 
> dimwit, but this cross platform stuff is still a bit bewildering!
> 
> Joe Wilkins
> 
> On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Derek Bump wrote:
> 
>> I don't know if this helps, but I also get that error message with my 
>> standalones, but only if I use Resource Hacker to remove the extra 
>> spaces in the version information of the standalone.  Once make the 
>> changes, the standalone throws that message.
>>
>> Additionally, I noticed in the standalone resources that there is an 
>> item called "24" which was never there previously.  It's contents 
>> contain:
>>
>> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" 
>> manifestVersion="1.0"><dependency><dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity type="win32" 
>> name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" 
>> processorArchitecture="X86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" 
>> language="*"></assemblyIdentity></dependentAssembly></dependency></assembly> 
>>
>>
>>
>> Derek Bump
>> Dreamscape Software
>> http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I just saved my current stack as a standalone. The Mac Version is 
>>> flawless. The Window's version, however, puts up a "Failed to 
>>> initialize" dialog almost immediately. There was a number like 
>>> xx00005 or something similar posted; is that number meaningful? The 
>>> only issues that I can think of that may have caused a problem are:
>>> At one point this mainstack had a substack that is no longer being 
>>> used. All references to it were deleted and the substack itself were 
>>> deleted, but I was never able to completely remove or delete all 
>>> "indications" of that substack from the mainstack. Apparently this 
>>> caused no problems in the Mac version, but I wonder if this may have 
>>> been the cause of confusion in the Window's standalone.
>>> There are some references to the various menu buttons, either 
>>> enabling or disabling portions from time to time. I did not use any 
>>> conditionals in the scripts that checked for the platform, assuming 
>>> that Rev would take care of those kinds of things automatically.
>>> The externals, audio clips, are linked through player "paths" and 
>>> work fine on the Mac version, and they have ended up in a folder 
>>> named "Externals" on the Window's version, but did Rev handle the 
>>> rest of that conversion properly, or could that be my problem.
>>> I guess, what I'm asking is: when this kind of thing happens, how do 
>>> we debug our Rev stack to fix it?
>>> TIA,
>>> Joe Wilkins
> 
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