confedit is not working

[amirnatsheh7]

i think confedit did not loaded at ewj38.ocx

[Holger]

I assume this is due to a missing Visual Basic runtime. See the following note from the"Tools & Utilities" page:

If you should have problems running this program (especially if it complains about missing OCX files like “GGlock.ocx”), the reason is most probably a missing Visual Basic 5.0 runtime. You can install it directly from the appropriate Visual Basic 5.0 runtime installer from Microsoft.

If ConfEdit still complains about components not being correctly registered, manually registering those components as follows should help:

• open “cmd.exe” and “cd” to the “ConfEdit” directory
• enter “regsvr32 xxx” for every file “xxx” that ConfEdit complains about

The commands above may be required to “Run as Administrator”.

Unfortunately, I do not use Windows and cannot give any further advice on this.

[SLAPPYHAPPY2000]

I was actually able to bypass this issue in some directions bundled on the ConfEdit download page, think you have to run the program as "administrator" if I remember correctly.

But, then a new issue presents itself - ConfEdit straight up does not seem recognize newer versions of Rocks'n'Diamonds as Rocks'n'Diamonds
I get the attached pop-up whenever I try to set my path to my desktop version of R'n'D... version is 4.3.7.1, btw

[Holger]

Wow, that's strange! No idea what kind of checks Alan implemented here.

Have you tried it with older versions? It would be interesting to know which was the last version that works, and which is the first version that refuses to work, to see which change might have caused this.

But I think I have to face the fact that ConfEdit does not work on any recent system anymore, and should remove it from the R'n'D web site. Very sad, as this was a really cool tool to create and test custom graphics for R'n'D.

[amirnatsheh7]

do the confedit remake! holger

[Holger]

do the confedit remake! holger

No, you will do the ConfEdit remake!

Go learn a programming language (I leave the choice up to you), practice until you have mastered it, then do a perfect remake of ConfEdit that supports all the new stuff not yet included in the old ConfEdit.

May I ask that you do all this in the next two weeks, please?

I'm waiting.

Please let me know when it's done!

P.S.:

[amirnatsheh7]

no thank you sir

[filbo]

Holger,

Don't remove it. Just change the metadata around it, make it clear to the downloader that it's a tool that only works on old-Windows and with old-RnD (whatever cutoff version, if anyone makes the effort to determine the cutoff).

That leaves it available for people interested in various sorts of archaeology. Including the 'see what it used to do, make a new thing like it' type.

Is Alan around? Maybe the source could magically appear??