Bonk~ installation problems

tasteforreality's icon

hello all,

im trying to instal the bonk~ external but im having real issues, possibly because i have a less than great idea of what im doing. wondering if anybody can give me some help

currently running Max 5.02 on a win XP laptop

ive downloaded the windows version of bonk 1.3 from http://www.akustische-kunst.org/maxmsp/other.html

ive put the bonk~.mxe file in ....Cycling '74Max 5.0Cycling '74msp-externals

and the bonk~.help file in ....Cycling '74Max 5.0Cycling '74msp-help

when i create a new patch and try to add the bonk object i get an error

tooltip: max.exe - Entry point not found

the procedure entry point assist_string could not be located in the dynamic link library maxAPI.dll

a bit of help here would be much appreciated

cheers very much

tasteforreality's icon

dont like to seem like im being impatient......but i suppose i am heh

im actually finding that im getting the same sort of error with other externals as well.

ive now tried using externals by creating a new folder in the cycling74 folder, putting the .mxe and .help files into there and then adding the path to the list of search paths but it still doesnt work?

am i just missing something?