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feline
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United Kingdom
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Posted - Jul 12 2004 :  07:17:44 AM  Show Profile
seeing that 1246 is now available i have just downloaded and tried to install this. i am immediately getting an information box asking me to close all instances of "Microsoft Visual C++"

VS .NET 2003 isn't running, and i haven't loaded it since booting up my machine this morning, it looks like i am back on UNIX today.

several things are running, including MS Excel 2000 (sp3). if i close Excel and re-run the installer it is happy. i normally (always?) have to close Excel, but i have always had VS .NET 2003 open and have then closed it, so i presumed Excel was somehow making something linger in memory. it seems Excel is the issue in isolation.

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Posted - Jul 12 2004 :  12:49:12 PM  Show Profile
We have yet to delve into the problem, although it has been reported a few times.

http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1171&SearchTerms=excel

http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1303&SearchTerms=excel

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SvenC
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Germany
339 Posts

Posted - Jul 13 2004 :  05:22:20 AM  Show Profile
As Uniwares pointed out it is the VBA environment having open a "Microsoft Visual Basic ..." window which is hidden until you ask for the VBA editor.

A more correct approach would be to check if va_x.dll is loaded by some process, e.g. with PSAPI functions EnumProcesses and EnumProcessModules. Then you could list all processes which have loaded va_x.dll in your Ignore-Retry-Cancel-dialog.

But this is definitely low priority to me - intellisense and code browsing is what I use VAX for, not install/uninstall

Bye,
SvenC
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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
18939 Posts

Posted - Jul 13 2004 :  08:28:19 AM  Show Profile
i agree. my main reason for posting was so that others would know this was happening, and what to do to fix it. it is easy to work around, which is always nice

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