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RoboBasic on Vista

2008-11-16T18:39:56+01:00

the fix isnt workig for me... it just gives an error whenever it is executing the commands starting with "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32...."
can anyone help me??

Statistics: Posted by saadbaba — Sun Nov 16, 2008 6:39 pm

robobasic v2.72

2008-06-25T16:57:05+01:00

Just a quick note to say thanks for the hints and for those want to use v2.72 on vista; simply add the following 2 lines to your bat files or just run in from command line.

regsvr32 /u c:\windows\system32\MSINET.ocx
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\MSINET.ocx

Statistics: Posted by frits — Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:57 pm

vista

2008-02-15T21:25:46+01:00

Not sure what I did different. I set a restore point from before i installed robobasic and the .bat file and tried again. Its working fine now.

Statistics: Posted by saview — Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:25 pm

vista

2008-02-15T20:01:29+01:00

I don't know what im doing wrong. Ive installed the batch file, Ive set my computer as administrator and Robobasic still will not work. As soon as I click the program, I get the bar that says ''robobasic v2.5 has stopped working'' bla bla, shuts down and tries to find the cause. Have I missed a step?

Statistics: Posted by saview — Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:01 pm

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-27T17:51:58+01:00

Finally, I am able to run RoboBasic without a hitch on my Vista OS, thanks to all of you experts. Changed the UAC as suggested, then rerun, this time without error, the Vista Fix. Shazam!

I can't believe that I knew nothing about the UAC; back to the books!

Thanks everyone,

Robert

Statistics: Posted by treborz — Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:51 pm

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-26T09:08:12+01:00

NVR2FST is right, you should have user access control turned off or actually be logged on as administrator for this pain in the ar... program to work properly. I may have neglected to mention that in the fix post. As this first thing i told Grampy to do when i heard he had got vista was to turn this dam annoying retarded operating system into a nice girl and turn UAC off. Doh!

You will find user access control by opening control panel, Selecting accounts and family Safety, then Select User Accounts, Then Select Turn user account control on or off, remove the tick from the tick box and reboot your system. this gets rid of vista's personality disorder and actually allows you run the machine like a real computer instead of it asking you every time if its OK for it to do what you asked it to do in the first place. so bloody annoying that is!

And did you know Grampy that if you use Google spell checker it alway want to change Grampy into Grumpy?

Anyway..... Happy roboting. one day i will build a real robot, not one of these toys you all play games with!

Gary

Statistics: Posted by Dimlow — Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:08 am

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-19T03:49:55+01:00

Do you have the UAC on in Vista? That would be why you need to Run As Administrator. Glad to hear you got yours working. Now why in the hell doesnt my Roboscript work in Vista!!?

Statistics: Posted by NVR2FST — Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:49 am

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-19T03:33:41+01:00

Okay I just tried this again. I had to right click, and start Robobasic with the "Run as Administrator" option. Program worked just fine.

So there ya go. I dunno if this is the case with everyone but if you find that Robobasic still doesn't work, Run it as Admin.

BTW, I'm using a USB to Serial converter.

Statistics: Posted by visuvius — Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:33 am

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-16T14:53:12+01:00

Will try to get Gary (Dimlow) on line later in the chat channel
Grampy

Statistics: Posted by Grampy — Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:53 pm

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-16T08:04:34+01:00

I've used Dimlow's .bat fix but I still can't seem to get Robobasic to work in Vista. I've got the same issues as the OP. I can set zero points and get the controller information, but I can't open a .bas file or create a new one?

Is there anything else I can try or am I screwed as far as Vista goes?

Statistics: Posted by visuvius — Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:04 am

Vista

2008-01-07T13:33:34+01:00

I have been through hell and back again trying to be able to use my robonova which I recieved about a week ago. I spent a full 2 days trying to dual boot my machine to have XP and Vista to no avail. To hit one brick wall after another! I built it, modded it, but was never able to use it on my Vista PC. I tried it out on my wifes XP machine and it worked fine. I just hate her computer! I wanted to be able to use it in my "big boys play room" It is set up for these kind of things. Your fix worked great ! Im obviously not good on coding but I am very good with my hands, physically modding or building things big and small. Thanks again! Another satisfied customer.

Statistics: Posted by NVR2FST — Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:33 pm

RoboBasic on Vista

2008-01-06T22:45:48+01:00

For all of you that are having trouble with making this file. here it is for you to download.

http://robosavvy.com/Builders/Dimlow/Fix.bat

And that includes you NVR2FST !!!

enjoy

Gary

Statistics: Posted by Dimlow — Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:45 pm

RoboBasic on Vista

2007-12-31T00:58:04+01:00

Oooh, well lets hope they pay up! My Bank account no is.....

LOL!

Gary

Statistics: Posted by Dimlow — Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:58 am

RoboBasic on Vista

2007-12-14T03:47:09+01:00

What confuses me now is why Hitec did not come out with this fix months ago? It seems easy and straight foward. I think that Dimlow saved Hitec a lot of money!

Statistics: Posted by Gort — Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:47 am

RoboBasic on Vista

2007-12-14T00:57:55+01:00

Hi ya, boys and girls!

Just thought id try to explain it for you!

When i tried to run the software on vista it just kept popping up unregistered ocx files, and each time it popped up the message i fixed it with regsvr32, but the fix would not take if i did not unregister the file first,im guessing the installer does not work in vista and incorrectly registers the files, that's why the script does what it does. MSCOMCTL.ocx is just a typo, it only needs to be done once, but still if you use it how it is, it will still work. I don't directly access the registry, so there are no worries there! Sure ,i could have given you a fix.reg file but regscr32 does it just as well.

Anyway, i don't see why this would do any harm. If you don't want to use it then don't. Im not bothered!

All i know it that it works for Grampy,BigJon,Me and mabe others.

Dimlow

Statistics: Posted by Dimlow — Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:57 am