RE: [BLACKBOX] Calling DLLs

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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:41:29 +0000

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Hi Wojtek,

a very late answer to your problem of BlackBox missing to find DLLs.

I just stumbled over an article in Dr.Dobbs (see p. 8 of
http://i.cmpnet.com/ddj/digest/2010/DDD_0910.pdf) and I recalled that
you had a changed behavior with BlackBox ...

You might find another solution to your problem by setting the DLL path
explicitely with calling the SetDllDirectory Function (see also MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686203(VS.85).aspx).

regards

--
  Bernhard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy> Wojtek Skulski
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:10 AM
> To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: [BLACKBOX] Calling DLLs
> 
> 
> Let me try one more time. This time I condensed the message 
> and removed 
> all the previous text. I am sending it to blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> "lists". Let's see if I receive the feedback message.
> 
> Copy of the text without citation marks:
> 
>         ---------------------------------------
> 
>   OK, I "solved" the problem. I right-clicked the BlackBox 
> 1.5 icon on the
>   desktop, selected "Properties", opened the Compatibility 
> tab, and selected
>   Compatibility mode "Windows 2000".
> 
>   Then I launched BB, opened the DDCtApi panel, and it started OK.
>   DDCtApi is loaded and all the interactors are populated as expected.
> 
>   I then unchecked the compatibility and voila! The DLL is 
> not loaded. I then
>   set the compatibility again, and voila! DLL is loaded.
> 
>   Note, no other changes! I did not touch the PATH. The DLL 
> files are in the
>   same places with and without the compatibility.
> 
>   I am running Windows XP Professional on this laptop. After 
> Sept 25 there must
>   have been Windows Update. Probably more than one. This 
> could have screwed up
>   the DLL loading process. But how is that possible? How and why the
>   compatibility mode fixed this?
> 
>   W
> 
>   PS: I turned the compatibility on/off a few times to make 
> sure it makes the
>   difference. It does. With compatibility not set the DLL is 
> not loaded. With
>   compatibility set to Win 2k it is loaded and the Api panel 
> works as it used
>   to in September 2009.
> 
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