Zeus IDE

I also heavily use the command line

jussij wrote: What was the command line use using in this instance

jussij wrote: What happens if you start Zeus without any command line options, Do you still see the exception dialog

jussij wrote: So I suspect this is probably some sort of configuration issue or possibly an issue with Zeus and the version of Windows you are running

jussij wrote: To eliminate the first possibility I would rename your current install, run a full 3.97c installer and see if this fresh install has the same issue.

BTW I've avoided .Net on this machine (though it may have sneaked on).

I gather that you have used MFC in the past. Has this changed?

I'm thinking that Zeus in not compatible with Win2K anymore.

Does 3.96 (which worked at least in the early versions) have the checkboxes to turn off the buttons/tabs in the side bar?

And, if so, can you make the link to the last version of 3.96(s?) available again. The link seems broken.

I now have error messages about a missing msvcr80.dll

jussij wrote:I did some more thinking about this issue.

...
Now you said that the machine was recently re-installed. This could mean the machine is using a very old version of this Microsoft Common Controls dll and this might be causing the problem

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... af0d8d4a1e

It is only for version: 5.80.2614.3600 so I am not sure if it would help but it might

The version that Zeus is expecting is version 6.0.0.0

// this also works for DLLVERSIONINFO2
// as DLLVERSIONINFO is the first member or DLLVERSIONINFO2.
typedef struct _DllVersionInfo
    {
    DWORD   cbSize;
    DWORD   dwMajorVersion;
    DWORD   dwMinorVersion;
    DWORD   dwBuildNumber;
    DWORD   dwPlatformID;
    } DLLVERSIONINFO;


DWORD GetComctl32DllVersion(void)
    {
    static DWORD    ReviousResult = (DWORD) -1;

    if (ReviousResult != -1)
        {
        return(ReviousResult);
        }
    else
        {
        ReviousResult = GetDllVersion(TEXT("comctl32.dll"));
        return(ReviousResult);
        }
    }

// returns TRUE or FALSE (plus stores the result for speed).

int IsComCtrl32_6_00_OrGreater(void)
    {
    static int    ReviousResult = -1;

    if (ReviousResult != -1)
        {
        return(ReviousResult);
        }
    if (GetComctl32DllVersion() >= PACKVERSION(6, 00))
        {
        ReviousResult = TRUE;
        return(TRUE);
        }
    else
        {
        ReviousResult = FALSE;
        return(FALSE);
        }
    }

In fact, MS don't allow you to redistribute common controls any longer.

In fact, MS don't allow you to redistribute common controls any longer. Version 6 is ONLY for XP, and brings in the new 'XP styles'. If you don't activate styles (AFAIKT Zeus doesn't), then you should be able to use version 5.

At the risk of being a tad presumptuous, perhaps Zeus could test the CC version with IsComCtrl32_6_00_OrGreater() (as per following example) , and then just allow the features available for that version.

But Zeus does use XP Styles Zeus is built with a manifest file which is one of the Windows requirement for XP Styles.

Unfortunately I don't think it is quite as simple as this

#if(_WIN32_WINNT < 0x0501)
#define WM_THEMECHANGED                 0x031A

#define HDF_SORTUP              0x0400
#define HDF_SORTDOWN            0x0200

#endif /* _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0501 */

The CC structures that get compiled into Zeus come straight out of the SDK header files and these structures have been known to change with different versions of CC.

So if Zeus uses a later version of these structures and passes the structure to a earlier version of the CC dll it will fail with an invalid structure size error (which is what I think is happening right now).

To uses different versions of CC dll within the same application would mean that Zeus would have to define its own version of the CC structures for each version of the CC DLL being supported and not use the structures defined in the SDK.

And, if so, can you make the link to the last version of 3.96(s?) available again. The link seems broken.

jussij wrote:

And, if so, can you make the link to the last version of 3.96(s?) available again. The link seems broken.

The older 3.96s version can be found here: http://www.zeusedit.com/z300/ze32v396s.zip