jon2211

I am finding lots of stability issues with the applicaitons I buid that are not in my dev patches.

b. Buttons and comment will be there the first time I open the app, but then disapper the next time.

Is the standaolen exe the best way to put a max app on a coputer that doesn't have max installed? Can I install max on multiple computers??

I didn't have stability issues like this in PD...I am a bit flummoxed

A. Send/receives not working
b. Buttons and comment will be there the first time I open the app, but then disapper the next time.
C. Apps fail on open

Is the standaolen exe the best way to put a max app on a coputer that doesn't have max installed?  Can I install max on multiple computers??

standalone-trouble

On 28 oct. 08, at 05:18, Jon Grant wrote:

> I am finding lots of stability issues with the applicaitons I buid 

> b. Buttons and comment will be there the first time I open the app, 

> Is the standaolen exe the best way to put a max app on a coputer 

> that doesn't have max installed? Can I install max on multiple 

> I didn't have stability issues like this in PD...I am a bit flummoxed

Could you be a little bit more specific?patch, OS version, max 

version, steps to reproduce... Otherwise we can only speculate.

On 28 oct. 08, at 05:18, Jon Grant  wrote:

>
> I am finding lots of stability issues with the applicaitons I buid  
> that are not in my dev patches.
>
> A. Send/receives not working
> b. Buttons and comment will be there the first time I open the app,  
> but then disapper the next time.
> C. Apps fail on open
>
> I am using max 5 on windows xp.
>
> Is the standaolen exe the best way to put a max app on a coputer  
> that doesn't have max installed?  Can I install max on multiple  
> computers??
>
> I didn't have stability issues like this in PD...I am a bit flummoxed
>
> Any help is appreciated
>
> Thanks

Could you be a little bit more specific?patch, OS version, max  
version, steps to reproduce... Otherwise we can only speculate.

Ok, I did some more fiddling and found the following:

I am using two computers that are hooked into a LAN

I am using a network drive to create the max patch on. The dev machine opes the exe fine. The production machine opens the exe without Comment boxes, buttons, toggles etc below are the error messages. Also [clocker] doesn't work in the built applications.

folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed

I am using a network drive to create the max patch on.  The dev machine opes the exe fine.  The production machine opens the exe without Comment boxes, buttons, toggles etc below are the error messages.  Also [clocker] doesn't work in the built applications.

folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed
Error 126 loading external dac~
gain~: gain~: no such object
ezdac~: ezdac~: no such object
flonum: flonum: no such object
comment: comment: no such object
toggle: toggle: no such object
comment: comment: no such object
message: message: no such object
button: button: no such object


It's possible that windows max5 can't create standalones on network drives.

Create the standalone on your home drive.

I can build the exe fine, then I build the exe with the name Test.exe and I run into trouble.

Are there rules on how a standalone can be named? Also, if I make a standalone, the computer doesn't need the runtime installed, right? Can there be trouble if the computer has a runtime installed other than from the standalone?

Are there rules on how a standalone can be named? Also, if I make a standalone, the computer doesn't need the runtime installed, right?  Can there be trouble if the computer has a runtime installed other than from the standalone?


There were changes in the way we link to the MS C++ runtime in 5.04 I think.

Your standalone should work fine without the runtime installed as long as you created it with a version of max 5 >= 5.04.

As far as I know there are no limitations on names, outside of normal windows OS demands on chars in names.

Let us know more details if you are still having problems. Do you have 5.05 running? Are you building locally?

If it still doesn't work, then let's take this into support

Please attach a copy of the standalone which doesn't seem to work.

Except when I name the application test.exe, oh well - not going to name it test anyway. Of course, that only happens when I run test.exe on another machine.

But what is the folderwatcher_beginproc: ReadDirectoryChangesW failed message that pops up?

Except when I name the application test.exe,  oh well - not going to name it test anyway.  Of course, that only happens when I run test.exe on another machine.

BTW, in the next incremental release, 5.06, we shall support multiple standalones being open at the same time.

Thanks for pointing out the issues with using windows standalones on a network share. Max on windows wasn't dealing with network filenames (i.e. \sharenamefolderfile.txt) which was causing problems (i.e. launching a standalone from a network share would crash). This will be fixed for Max 5.0.6.

Thanks for pointing out the issues with using windows standalones on a network share.  Max on windows wasn't dealing with network filenames (i.e. \sharenamefolderfile.txt) which was causing problems (i.e. launching a standalone from a network share would crash).  This will be fixed for Max 5.0.6.  

standalone trouble