by Ashton Lawson » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:30 am
Hey guys, thanks for all the support.
Like what Orion said (FlightSimWorld), all this testing seems to indicate that those running 64-bit Windows will have to run FSWC (and its installer, and probably uninstaller) as an administrator.
This is a bit of a headache for some, but my belief is that if you're running a 64-bit setup, you should be competent enough to be able to set that in the application's properties.
Now, Orion also had this other idea, one where the installer auomatically sets FSWC's compatibility to 'Run as an administrator'. This looks like it can work, so I'm going to search for more code, to do just that, and perhaps the only things you'll have to 'Run as an admin' manually will be the installer.
I also have one more idea up my sleeve, that being building FSWC as a 64-bit application. This would mean we'd have two downloads, one for 32-bit, the other for 64-bit, and that could work.
However, I doubt that'll solve the issues we've been having, so I suspect we'll have to stick with the admin thing.
Anyway, whilst I finish off, before I shutdown, unplug, replug, startup and build, I would just like to take this moment (or paragraph, as the case may be) to thank Orion. He's been a great, no, huge help to me with FSWC's development process for the past two to three days. Combining his quick actions, along with my slow connection with U.S. servers, he's helped test FSWC on a few setups, and he was the one who initially caught the error with Vista 64-bit, warning me to not send out the beta. He is the one who helped me determine the registry limitations on Vista 64-bit when to do so myself would've taken too long, since I would have to switch computers. He was the one who actually thought up the idea of running as an administrator.
To top it all off, he's only 12, that is, unless he had a birthday pass by without letting me know.
Tomorrow, or today, or whatever, amidst the timezone confusion, he's leaving for a trip to Seattle, home of Microsoft, Boeing, and that pointy building, the name of which I refuse to acknowledge for humourous effect, and will be there for a bit under a week.
So, before he leaves, or even if he reads this whilst on his trip, a very huge thanks goes out to you, Orion, for all the help you've offered and given. Without him I probably wouldn't have resolved all those issues as quickly as I have.
Have a safe trip man.
FS Water Configurator+ has new modifications in the works, plus DirectX 10, Service Pack
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