Chiptune Goon Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Every time I open up VisualBB, it opens up the configuration wizard as though it was my first time running the program. It seems to remember my recent projects, but it is getting annoying having to reset the path to 2600.exe and Stella.exe every time I open the compiler. How do I get VisualBB to remember to stop activating the configuration wizard on startup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I have this same problem on a Win 8 64-bit system. The folder is called C:\batariBASIC and I'm running VisualbB.exe as administrator. I made sure none of the files in the folder are marked read-only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwierer Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Sometime in your environment is preventing it from writing the configuration to registry. -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiptune Goon Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Sometime in your environment is preventing it from writing the configuration to registry. -Jeff So, should I move the folders off of the desktop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwierer Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Moving it off your desktop probably wouldn't change anything because something is blocking it from writing to the registry like local machine policy or antivirus. Try right clicking Run As administrator to see if that changes anything. -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiptune Goon Posted August 8, 2014 Author Share Posted August 8, 2014 Moving it off your desktop probably wouldn't change anything because something is blocking it from writing to the registry like local machine policy or antivirus. Try right clicking Run As administrator to see if that changes anything. -Jeff Dang, still no luck. Guess I'll just have to deal with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I hope Windows 9 won't suck as bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I hope Windows 9 won't suck as bad. Indeed. This doesn't happen on every Win 8 system so I haven't reported it to jwierer. Running as admin doesn't solve it either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Try exporting the relevant bit of the registry tree using regedit on a working system, as a .reg file. Then move the reg file over to the problem Windows 8 system and double-click it. If it doesn't work-around the problem, you may get an error message that gives some insight as to why it's failing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiptune Goon Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 Try exporting the relevant bit of the registry tree using regedit on a working system, as a .reg file. Then move the reg file over to the problem Windows 8 system and double-click it. If it doesn't work-around the problem, you may get an error message that gives some insight as to why it's failing. Got a solution for windows 7? Is there an older version of Visualbb I can use that doesnt have a configuration wizard and isn't too buggy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 The same solution should work for Windows 8. Fair warning, I mostly run Linux these days, so I'm not a VBB user. But it's a general problem of the app not seeing entries that it put into the registry, so a manual attempt of putting the same values into the registry seems like a good first step to me. No idea on alternate VBB versions, but it's probably better that we exhaust troubleshooting first. Otherwise this OS setting/incompatibility issue will never get worked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 It was a good idea but unfortunately the keys are present in my problem system. Even double checked the permissions on those keys. Maybe we should suggest Visualbb use an .INI file inside the VisualbB folder instead of the registry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 @Jeff: does the Wizard appear only when the keys don't exist, or does it also appear if the paths aren't valid? @theloon: can you try renaming your folder to c:\bB and see if it makes a difference? Maybe it's a long name thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwierer Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Should only occur when the keys aren't present. Might be encountering an error during write. I would delete the keys and rerun vbb. I run it on win7 so it's something unique to the individual's box. UPDATE: I checked the code and it's pretty simple. It checks every subkey in HLKM/Software for VisualbB and if it doesn't find it, vbb assumes it's being run for the first time. Something on the box must be preventing that key from being read or written to. -Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Yeah. No dice on the long filename theory. I also imported the keys from a working Windows 7 machine. Having VisualbB use an .INI file would also have a side benefit of making it even more portable bB on a stick anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Jeff, is it possibly a 32-bit binary on 64-bit issue? Are you guys running 64-bit versions of Windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted August 22, 2014 Share Posted August 22, 2014 Jeff, is it possibly a 32-bit binary on 64-bit issue? Are you guys running 64-bit versions of Windows? Absarutly! I don't have access to the problem Win 8 64-bit system now. You'd think .Net would be smart enough to compile the bytecode for whatever flavor it is running on. Then again, they could be dumb enough to go lazy and just use SysWow64. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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