Thread: Working Destinator PN SDK !

Celo, have you managed to run the VB examples with VB6.0 / VB2003 / VB2005? (any of these)

I have the official Dest PN SDK, purchased from PowerLoc. I could run C_Client (but not the VB examples) when I purchased it but not anymore. I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and my computer is installing automatic updates (I guess that's the problem). I'll do a clean installation (no other software, just VB6) with SP1 (or even without SP if I find the CD) and check what happens.

I'll also turn automatic updates off.

I'll keep you updated!

ps. No support from Powerloc at all. Haven't heard these guys for a long time!

Didn`t try any of vb examples. I will post any progress...

celo.

I'm about to investigate Destinator PN for use with Freedrive and am going to get something together to get it to work.

Will post my results.

OK Gobby, we'll stay tuned.

VB example included in SDK try to create object and it seems o.k., but show/hide do nothing... Except hide throw exception ;o(.

Dont have VB or VStudio installed to try compile anything ;o(

Did Anybody try to code anything?

celo.

Celo,

I made two fresh installations... one with Windows XP SP1 and one with Windows 2000 without SP.

Then I install the DestPN package (actually it is a self decompressing RAR file). Notice that in order to run it I need two more files (not included in the package):

1) MFC71.dll
2) MSVCR71.dll

I copied those files to the system32 folder. After that Destinator runs fine. The problem I have is that when I try to register DestSDK.dll with regsvr32 it fails. Therefore the VB6 examples (I've also installed VB6 in the fresh installations) fail to run. The error message is: ActiveX component can't create object!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
George

Originally Posted by gsova

After that Destinator runs fine. The problem I have is that when I try to register DestSDK.dll with regsvr32 it fails.

did you had installed destinator 3 sdk?
got the same problem, try to unregister destsdk.dll and re-register it then.
if this still won't work try to clean your registry from all where destsdk.dll is part of it. it worked to me.
are you able to run the c_client.exe?

Originally Posted by gsova

Therefore the VB6 examples (I've also installed VB6 in the fresh installations) fail to run. The error message is: ActiveX component can't create object!

it'S a major problem of the destinator sdk. i managed it to create the object in vb. it starts the destinator application and shows and resizes the window but freezes after that. i visited destinator at the cebit and they showed me the newest version of their sdk but still without working vb exambles.
C++ works fine. i could create the com object and so on. i guess it's a problem with the threating-modell the dll use.

Originally Posted by hematec

did you had installed destinator 3 sdk?
got the same problem, try to unregister destsdk.dll and re-register it then.
if this still won't work try to clean your registry from all where destsdk.dll is part of it. it worked to me.
are you able to run the c_client.exe?

No, I did not had Dest 3 SDK installed. My windows installation was clean and I just installed Dest PN SDK afterwards. I did not try to run C_Client.exe but I assume that it is called by Destinator.exe (which is on the same folder), that runs succesfully for me on my clean installations!

Originally Posted by hematec

it'S a major problem of the destinator sdk. i managed it to create the object in vb. it starts the destinator application and shows and resizes the window but freezes after that. i visited destinator at the cebit and they showed me the newest version of their sdk but still without working vb exambles.
C++ works fine. i could create the com object and so on. i guess it's a problem with the threating-modell the dll use.

So, you think that I should use Visual C++ ? I have a frontend written with VB6 which currently uses Dest 3 SDK. There has been done a lot of work and it would be a nightmare to me to re-write it in C.

Did the Destinator guys at CeBIT told you if they plan to fix the issue with VB?

I am also trying to contact them but that's not easy...

hematec,

I ran the already compiled C_Client.exe from folder C:\DestinatorApps\Destinator with no problem. The strange thing is that I can also run Destinator.exe, even though I'm testing it at my office PC which has Windows XP SP2 with all the recent updates installed and a lot of other software (for example Office 2003...)!

I have installed VC++ 6.0 and tried to build the C_Client example found in C:\DestinatorApps\Examples\C_Client but I get the following output:


Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'C_Client - Win32 Debug'.
--------------------Configuration: C_Client - Win32 Debug--------------------
Compiling resources...
Compiling...
StdAfx.cpp
c:\destinatorapps\examples\c_client\stdafx.h(20) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'DestSDK.h': No such file or directory
Error executing cl.exe.

C_Client.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

I would appreciate if you could help as I'm not very familiar with VC++