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DLL Talk / Blue GUI2 - RAINBOW returns an error on loading and won't run.

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Bartman
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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 10:25
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I get the following error returned when I try to run Rainbow in Win-98.

Failed to load DLL (1: gui2_release.dll) [OK]

Please help if you know why - I really want to use rainbow.
All I have tried to do is re-install the Blue GUI2 package but that was the limit of my ideas for fixing it!
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BatVink
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 09:35
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That's an odd name for the DLL. It should be gui2.dll, and you should find it in the compiler/plugins-user folder.

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Bartman
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 10:33
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Just for clarification for anyone trying to help me with this....

The error is all that is returned after selecting RAINBOW from the START menu. (And I get the same thing if I try to run it from DBPro).

Nothing other than the error is displayed on the windows desktop.

Rainbow does not seem to start at all so I don't think the error is returned by RAINBOW, rather the error message seems to be generated by windows. (It looks like a windows error but then again that's what BlueGUI is for - making things look like windows).
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IanG
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 10:52
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well have you got the latest update?


amd athlon xp 2600+,1280mb,FX 5200 128mb,200gb,xp pro sp2
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BatVink
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Posted: 29th Nov 2005 11:37
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Looks like it was compiled with a dev version of the DLL. The Rainbow source is included, just recompile it.

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Bartman
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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 10:20
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Thanks for your input everyone (BatVink & IanG), It's solved..... well I've got it working (suggesting that it's solved suggests that I know what was going wrong - which I don't).

Special thanks to IanG - sometimes you're so close to a problem you don't think of the obvious. I just logged on to the BlueGUI website and downloaded the latest version of RAINBOW. Voila now it works.

Snaps for IanG.
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IanG
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Posted: 1st Dec 2005 17:07
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Quote: "Special thanks to IanG "

'tis okay

Quote: "sometimes you're so close to a problem you don't think of the obvious"

yep, i think everyone has done that before, and i have done it several hundreds of times

Quote: "now it works"

happy endings are so great

Quote: "Snaps for IanG"




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