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Post by Archimedes on Jun 16, 2004 13:32:24 GMT -5
Hi again! ;D I just spent a whole day looking for some kind of splash-screen solution only to find that there seems to have been one here at Devster all the time... (you don't want to know what I've been up to with C and Bitmap to Ascii to Z80 converters. You really dont!) There is a problem though. ImaGenesis won't run. I get a dialogue saying, "Componant COMCTL32.OCX or one of it's dependancies are not correctly registered. A file is missing or invalid." But I searched all the .dll's and the .ocx's listed on the download page for ImaGenesis. They're all right there in the System folder. I even tried replacing them but to no avail. Can you help? I can't face going back to the ascii conversion again. That way madness lies...
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jun 19, 2004 23:03:20 GMT -5
On a DOS prompt, cd to your System dir, then exec this: regsvr32 comctl32.ocx
Your problems should be gone.
I used Kaneda's BMP2Tile, that generates a BIN file, and ASM sources... it's not too hard to replace a couple of dc.w with some datalong statements... the only issue is that i need to convert first the BMP to standard Window$ 16 color ugly pallete...
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Post by Archimedes on Jun 21, 2004 6:44:08 GMT -5
Hiya Tom Thanx for your input. I tried your suggestion but Windows just huffed for a bit and then coughed up; LoadLibrary("COMCTL32.OCX") failed. GetLastError returns 0x00000485.
A quick Google tells me this is generally due to a corrupt download or, sometimes, outdated DirectX runtimes. But as I'm running Dx8 and have tried grabbing the OCX from a few different sources I'm assuming that my copy of Windows is simply just one big, useless, juddering pool of horse jissm. I'll take a look for that bmp2tile jobbie though. I'm sure a quick C program could convert the syntax easily enough...
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Post by Archimedes on Jun 21, 2004 7:40:22 GMT -5
Erm... I'm not having much luck working out how I'm meant to use bmp2tile. The output files are suspicious looking to me. If you had a spare moment could you post back with a quick proceedure for how to convert a 320x200 16-bit bitmap? And how to call it/ use it with Basiegaxorz? I've tried including the bmp2tile bins using the syntax demonstrated in the 'FF7 TESTPICS.BEX' example but no dice as of yet. Cheers much. man.
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jun 24, 2004 17:38:34 GMT -5
For the COMCTL32.ocx issue: Your OCX may be corrupt OR you may not pointing to the route.
Use this cmd: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\regsvr32.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMCTL32.OCX Yes, point to the full path. Sometimes Windows cannot found the file in the actual path, so you must specify the full path. If you get this error again, consider to browse the M$ KB for get some help.
And for the BMP2TILE: i don't remember now how to use it... but look deeper in the readme file. Later i will post more detailed instructions, first i need to remember how to use it ;D
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Post by Archimedes on Jun 25, 2004 6:59:20 GMT -5
Erm... The plot grows progressively thicker I'm afraid. I'm in a virtual forest of 'plot' here! Right, I just took a squint in the System folder and there is no COMCTL32.OCX There is no COMCTL32.OCX at all! I have me one Comctl32.dll, one Commctrl.dll and one sheepish looking Mscomctl.ocx(that last one comes with the download) All of these are registered sucsessfully but that dosn't seem to stop ImaGenesis from failing to load the non existant Comctl32.ocxWhy must Windows be so niggly? At least of this was Linux someone would have loftily declared me a newb, told me to read some irrelevent manuals and that would have been an end to it. I'll take today to try and figure it out and then, rather than browse the Knowledge Base, I shall poke gingerly at the hard drive with a wet coat-hanger (as I'll probably achieve more productive results) Thanks for taking the time to help, dude! BMP2TILE is rapidly shaping up to be the most painless solution I think...
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Post by Archimedes on Jun 25, 2004 7:15:02 GMT -5
Fixed it! Must be a Win98 1st edition thing. I had to search for, install and register the comctl32.ocx file It definately wasn't in there and this is a quite fresh build of Windows. For a quick reference I snagged it from here; www.ascentive.com/support/new/support_dll.phtml?dllname=COMCTL32.OCX...but there's loads of places to get it from. Really sorry That should have been the first thing I looked at instead of just assuming it would be there. I think I've more than earned the right to go, "Doh!" ;D
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Post by Tom Maneiro on Jun 26, 2004 19:18:39 GMT -5
COMCTL32.OCX are Common Controls v5.0 (from Visual Basic 5). MSCOMCTL.OCX are v6.0 (from VB6). it looks that Devster had some VB 5 program that installed such OCX, that DOES NOT come with Window$. In fact, no version of Window$ include such OCX, just the VB runtimes (i think that XP may include the controls...).
I got those libs from VB6 CD (it copies it when installing).
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Post by oompa loompa on Jun 30, 2004 23:46:38 GMT -5
i created te thing with windows 98 =)
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