Tools are not working for me.

[E Programmer]

I am just testing the software. It's very close to what I want and
can probably live with it.

I would like to use projects and workspaces but I can't even get simple
tools to work. For example. If I select Tools-->Current Directory
I get

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Zeus for Windows Programmers Editor - Version 3.94a
Copyright (c) Xidicone Pty Ltd 1993-2005. All rights reserved.
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**** Unregistered Software. To be used for evaluation purposes only. ****
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**** NOTE: DEBUG OUTPUT ENABLED ****
This and other debug output text is being displayed because the Zeus debug
output option is currently enabled. To disable this debug output just select
the Options, Editor Options menu and in the General Options section un-check
the 'Help debug, tools, macros and executables' option.

Debug: Changed to the 'c:\documents and settings\user\my documents\projects\dash\' directory supplied
Debug: Command: dir *.*
Debug: Command Line: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM /c dir *.*
Debug: Started Process ID: 0xD04


What have I done, not done, so I get no output no matter what tool I use.
Same results for Compiling, Ascii chart, Dos commands ....

[jussij]

Debug: Command Line: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM /c dir *.*

This line of debug output tells me that the COMMAND.COM is being used as the command processor. Are you truely running a MS-DOS based version of Windows

If not, then why are you not using the cmd.exe command processor

Debug: Started Process ID: 0xD04

This line of debug output indicates that the command was in fact run, but obviously no output was captured.

Capturing output on MS-DOS based versions of Windows is truely a black art as these early Microsoft operating systems don't have a true concept of stdout or stderr.

To capture output on these systems Zeus uses the x95.exe program. Since this program is a hack and is only needed for MS-DOS systems, Zeus tries to detect the versions of Windows running and uses the x95.exe only where necessary. But in this case it appears Zeus thinks this system is not a MS-DOS system since it has decided not used the program.

As a test edit the ASCII tool (found in the Tools section of the Options, Default Document Type menu) and change the tool to run the x95.exe executable with the type ascii.txt arguments. If you run this changed tool you should see this:

Code: Select all

Debug: Command Line: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\command.exe /c x95.exe type "C:\Program Files\zfw\ASCII.TXT"

and hopefully you will also see the correct output.

Jussi

[E Programmer]

I reinstalled windows XP. That didn't tell the system to use CMD rather than COMMAND. However, If I open Zeus from the start menu, using the default directories, it runs tools using CMD.

What I am trying to do is have a different setup for different project directories. So my command line is:

c:\progra~1\zfw\zeus.exe -i d:\project1\zeus.ini

or

c:\progra~1\zfw\zeus.exe -i d:\project2\zeus.ini

When I start using an alternate INI file, it has the problem. Should I copy the default INI file when I set up a new project? What can I set in the INI file or in the zeus defaults to recognize this as an XP system

[jussij]

If I open Zeus from the start menu, using the default directories, it runs tools using CMD.

The Zeus installer adds the Zeus install directory to the windows app path registry section and whenever Zeus is
started, windows add this entry to the current path. What this means is Zeus will have no trouble finding
all the executables located in the Zeus install directory.

But unfortunately if you run Zeus from the cmd.exe prompt, Windows decides to no longer use this registry entry, and hence the path no longer contains the Zeus install directory. This naturally means Zeus will no longer find the executables located in the install directory.

This means is you need to start Zeus from the desktop or using the the start menu. Alternatively you need to manually add the Zeus install directory to the PATH environment variable, or move the executables to a directory that is already in the current path.

What I am trying to do is have a different setup for different project directories. When I start using an alternate INI file, it has the problem.

This feature was tested just recently and it was found to be wrking fine. For all the details see the reply to Item 19 of the recent 23 minor issues posting.

Note: As David points out in this posting, an easy way to do configure Zeus to work as you describe is to setup multiple desktop shortcuts and to configure each shortcut to point to a different configuration.

Jussi

[E Programmer]

I got it working.

What I had to do was add the ZFW directory to the path.
..It still did not work when run from a windows program that uses the
exec command (complex way of doing it that gets to the right project directory).

..It did work if my exec command ran a batch file that moves to the right project directory, then runs zeus.

I really like the program, it's close to perfect. If you could make the right click menus user editable (there is SOOOOO much I don't use), that would be nice. Most important is better help. I can see that the program will do something but the help is so short I still can't figure out how.

[Guest]

I got it working.

That is great news

I really like the program, it's close to perfect.

Thank you

If you could make the right click menus user editable (there is SOOOOO much I don't use)

Unfortunately there is no way to currently change the popup menus

The ultimate plan for Zeus is to make all the menus configurable, but such a change requires a large amount of re-work, so it will not be happen for quite some time.

Most important is better help.

I can not argue with this. The help definitely needs a lot of work and in fact probably needs a full re-write

But the limitations of the help was one of the reason for creating the new Zeus forum. Whenever you have a question or if you run into trouble configuring Zeus, just post a message to this forum

Jussi