Jerry W6IHG wrote:
From the mail I think several of us are having the same
problem with 11.10.
The basic problem is rttyrite freezes up when its tnc menu is touched.
Yes, this has been reported by several people here on the reflector. I
also
experience this once in a while when I'm stressing the software with my
testing on various PCs. THE SOLUTION THAT HAS ALWAYS WORKED FOR ME IS
TO:
1. CLOSE WRITELOG.
2. OPEN WRITELOG.INI WITH A TEXT EDITOR. (WRITELOG.INI IS IN THE
WINDOWS
DIRECTORY ON XP AND EARLIER. ON VISTA AND LATER, USE THE LINK TO
WRITELOG.INI ON THE WRITELOG MENU IN YOUR PROGRAMS MENU FROM THE WINDOWS
START BUTTON.)
3. FIND ALL [Rttyrite...] SECTIONS AND DELETE THEM SAVE WRITELOG.INI
AND
EXIT THE TEXT EDITOR.
4. OPEN WRITELOG AND SETUP YOUR RTTYRITE WINDOW(S) AGAIN.
NOTE: DON AND I SUSPECT THIS PROBLEM IS COMMON TO VISTA/WINDOWS
7/WINDOWS 8
SYSTEMS THAT USE THE VIRTUALSTORE. IT WOULD HELP US TRACK DOWN THE
PROBLEM
IF THIS IS TRUE. HAS ANYONE HAD THE FREEZE ISSUE ON WINDOWS XP (OR
EARLIER
OS)?
I ALSO SUSPECT IT MAY ONLY HAPPEN WHEN YOU START WRITELOG THE FIRST TIME
AFTER AN INSTALL OR UPGRADE. PLEASE ALSO CONFIRM OR DENY THIS?
Sorry for the caps. I don't mean to shout, but several of us have posted
this advice many times in the last four days and it doesn't seem to be
noticed. ;>)
I am just trying to get mmtty plug-in to work the same as it
has for me in 11.08.
Upgrading to 11.10G should require nothing unless you incur the freezing
problem. MMTTY with the MMTTY Plug-In will continue to work without
change.
Make sure 'MMTTY' is checked on the Rttyrite TNC menu. Do not use the
XMMT.ocx menu choice if you want to use the MMTTY Plug-In.
This morning, I uninstalled 11.08 again (after making a
backup) because it went in the wrong directory yesterday.
I then installed 11.10 in c:\HamPrograms\Writelog\ I deleted
the [rttyrite] and [rttyrite2] sections from the writelog.ini
in ...virtualStore... and saved it.
I then started writelog and opened a rttyrite window. Then
selected mmtty. Had to point to the proper directory (I did
not reinstall mmtty).
The rtty control panel for mmtty opened.
But as soon as I try to go to TNC Setup to adjust the mmtty
appearance, rttyrite freezes!
When I also go to the Stereo Soundboard AFSK option, rttyrite
freezes (that was the original problem I had).
And somewhere along the line I had to reinstall the mmtty
plugin because I was getting errors messages about "failed to
create custom ... tnc header"
Also I have been unable to save the size and location of the
rttyrite window using the Save Configuration option.
I deleted the writelog.ini in ...virtualStore... to let
writelog build a new one. But that did not solve the problem.
So basically I can not get back to the configuration of mmtty
that I had with 11.08.
Any ideas???? Meanwhile I have regressed back to writelog 11.08
I assume your OS is Vista or later since you mention VirtualStore. If I
understand the description of your actions and problems, it sounds like
you
did not delete the [Rttyrite...] sections in writelog.ini after you got
the
freeze. I understand you deleted the entire writelog.ini. That's not
the
same thing, so please try the instructions above when you encounter the
freeze. Your goal, after a freeze, is to edit the working writelog.ini
file, not delete it. Deleting it probably means that WriteLog reverts to
initializing with the default writelog.ini file stored in Windows in an
earlier installation.
I'm also a bit nervous about multiple installations of WriteLog in
different
directories. I don't know how the Registry and VirtualStore behave in
that
case. If it were me, I'd uninstall all of them and only have one on the
computer at a time.
Someone commented re: cleaning the registry values. Is that necessary?
I haven't heard this and I would relegate this to a last resort and only
if
you get clear instructions from someone really understands what to do.
For
me, the only person I'd trust is W5XD.
Ed W0YK