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[MYYM]

Thanks for the last post, it helped me figure out some reasons for the unusual behavior of the program while you were trying to test the scheme used to generate the random SN and RN.
I think most of these unusual behaviors won’t happen in the normal circumstances. Which assumed to be the case for 99% of the users.

Here some ideas of what I could think about, not sure if some or any of them could be true
1- I think the renaming and moving tests for the both program and the folders should be performed manually and only one at the time. (I have tested it that way and the SN never changed after restoring the original one). Maybe that’s because the script used to do the job could use different technique according to the language used! I remember I have read something in the AHK help documents about performing delete then copy in some cases to move a file. I’m not sure about that but it’s just an example for why I think scripting tests could confuse the results sometimes, of course I understand the need for trying to automate the process to save time.

2- Running more than one copy of the SW while testing could confuse the results too due to the fact that while the program extracting some resources from the compressed EXE package. The process ‘d be interrupted when another process starts somewhere else trying to do the same job. (Extracting file and install it to the same position for example) and if we assumed that the SW includes something like File install command with the overwrite option then the error is a must because of the sharing violation.

Well, I think the SW ‘d behave stable under the normal running conditions.
(I have tested it over and over again, and it hasn’t crash even once)
Maybe because my main concern was to test its functions, speed, refreshment of the display, sounds effects on/off, …etc.
Of course I didn’t test it by putting it under attack by a flow of commands from a script without giving It enough time to end what has just started to do, I won’t surprise if any SW crashed under such conditions.
For example, As you mentioned in one of your private messages :

[Laszlo]

1 - I used a batch file, not a script, for renaming/moving. The same behavior was with manual actions.

2 - Only one copy of the program was running at a time, I did not interrupt the program, but waited until it finished. It could have left something in the memory from a previous run, though. Not properly clean up at termination could be the problem.

Do you assume some VB libraries, DLL present in the PC? Missing those could also be the problem.

[MYYM]

[Laszlo]

I tried the program on a freshly installed XP on another PC. It shows the same problem, changing SN. If it is not some missing DLL, then you might need some special settings. I cannot help fixing it w/o the source code. And for me, if the SN changes after moving the program file to another directory and back, while it is not running, is a serious bug.

(Another thought: all the PC's I used have NTFS. Did you try it with FAT32 file system? This could also explain the differences.)

[MYYM]

[Guest]

here is what it shows

SN : C11C3-FGIOJMC3063735O

[MYYM]

[Guest]

Thank you, I like it
the sound effects are cool
how could you get them embedded into the exe? and how to play the right sound effect with the right action

[MYYM]

To be honest, I must say that when I have started this topic almost 70 days ago, I was expecting more than those 4 persons who have been interested in downloading and trying this game that I wrote using AHK.
Especially in this forum which gathers more than 800 members besides guests.
Now, I’d like really to know what could be the reason for this result?
Thanks.
MYYM.

[Jon]

[MYYM]

[Jon]

Thank MYMM, I copied and pasted the RN into the program and it said something about it being invalid. I closed the program and ran it again and now Im getting the error "Could not extract file: engine.exe"

[MYYM]

[Jon]

[MYYM]