Vista

[Richard Chidiak]

Hello

Just curious,

Has anyone tried to compile fwh + xharbour on Vista ?

Not the commercial version , i know it does not work.

Is BCC55 still compatible ? make files also ?

Thanks for reply,

Richard

[Antonio Linares]

Richard,

> Has anyone tried to compile fwh + xharbour on Vista ?

Yes, of course

> Is BCC55 still compatible ? make files also ?

Yes, 100%

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Great!

EMG

[Maurilio Viana]

Richard,

Has anyone tried to compile fwh + xharbour on Vista ?
Not the commercial version , i know it does not work.

I don't understood... xHarbour commercial don't compile under Vista or executables created with FWH+xHB.com don't work?
Is xHarbor.com compiler incompatible with Vista?

Regards,
Maurilio

[Richard Chidiak]

Maurilio

Xharbour.com builder (compiler) is incompatible with Vista.

It can not be installed and it does not run OK. it is retreiving the registry and the registry in Vista is totally different, so they have to rewrite this part...)

Applications built with xharbour builder work OK with Vista.

We have fully tested all our applications under vista, including Com ports, zip files ..etc Everything works OK.

You must be very careful if your app uses the registry , as they have changed most of the key names for security.... Microsoft fun.

Hth

Richard

[Maurilio Viana]

Thanks for the informations, Richard.
My subscription of xHarbour.com ended last feb, 13.
I'll glad if xHarbour.com publish any patch...
I was planning to buy a new computer to start tests with Vista. The best is wait a bit more

Regards,
Maurilio

[Rick Lipkin]

To All

xHarbor.org and FWH compile and run just fine on Vista .. not a 'plug' here .. but xMate works very well with Vista as a project manager and applications builder .. using FWH 27 and xHarbout 99.70 with bcc55.

Rick Lipkin
SC Dept of Health, USA

[TimStone]

Let me clarify this issue.

xHarbour.com's last full release of xBuilder does not work with Vista. However, they have fixed the problem and the latest release candidates do work fine. I am using it all day long on a Vista Ultimate computer with essentially no problems

Microsoft did change how it handles the registry. If you Run as Administrator with your application, then previous registry interaction seems to be fine. However, if you run as a Standard User, Vista places the same entries in a user registry location which may be different than what you intended. For example, I was writing data to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and it ended up in LOCAL_USER. Vista does track this alternate location, so everything does work fine. So far I have not noted any problems with the alternate location.

The reasoning is Microsoft's attempt to enhance security. If you don't like what they are doing, then be sure to tell a hacker or maybe encourage your local law enforcement officials to re-locate those hackers and virus writers to some remote environment where the internet and computers don't exist. Personally, I like the idea of placing them at the south pole where they can help raise penguins !

I realize it will be a lot of work to properly implement the changes in Vista, but so far it actually makes my dual core processor work much better than it did under XP Pro ... so I won't complain.

Tim