mike wrote:
On 2/1/2018 1:39 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Still no explicit reason given as to why you need to move away from a
working setup using an older version of Windows to a non-working, flaky,
or unknown (from unknown sources) setup with a new version of Windows.
What does Windows 10 give you that is critical to your application? Is
the OS more important than what appears to be critical hardware for
whatever is your application of that hardware? Which is more critical:
the hardware, the software, or the OS? So far, the only inferred reason
you think you need to "transcend" to a newer OS is simply because a new
one exists (exemplified by consumers well-trained by the "newer is
better" marketing mantra).

Lighten up!! It's a hobby.
Making win10 and Linux yield to my needs is something to do.
It's progress.
If you think you'll never have need for win10, you won't be doing much
in the future. More and more applications are dropping support for
32bit operating systems. Don't need it today, but you will tomorrow.

My motives are mine. They don't have to agree with yours.
Helping me is your choice...do or don't.

Latest National GPIB drivers seem to be working just fine using the
national direct access tools.

The VB6 problems seem to revolve around 32:64bit issues.
DLLs seem to get randomly distributed around system32, syswow64 and system
directories. It doesn't match up, so the app can't find what it needs.
Still working on that. I gave up on the new VB6 install thru inosetup.
Simple programs work, but the package distribution tools don't.
Full VS6 install is better, but still no cigar...yet.

One thing I still can't get my head around is that I can make an install
file on a fully functional 32-bit win7 system, and it still won't
install properly
on win10-64. It gets stuffed into program files(x86), so it knows it's
a 32-bit program. The files it can't find are right there in the
directory.
I even repackaged the app to put all the system support files into the
app directory. Still no go.


I'm able to get very simple GUI VB6 programs to run in linux/wine,
but hardware access is an issue. There's a recent update to linux-gpib
so all is not lost yet.


Do they need to be registered ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regsvr32

I haven't a clue as to when something should be registered
and when it will be resolved via $PATH or something. My little
programs here have never been complicated enough to need it.

Paul