[pigpenz]

double dummy anlayzer still doesnt work in MS Vista

[fred]

Thanks for the reminder. I am trying to install Vista now on one of my PCs in the hope that this will help me figure out what is going on so that I can fix the problem.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

I installed the upgrade on Vista and it (4.9.3) works just as well as 4.8.3

In both cases GIB is just fine.

Anything else you want me to test?

Stephen

[fred]

sfbp, on Nov 2 2006, 05:37 AM, said:

I installed the upgrade on Vista and it (4.9.3) works just as well as 4.8.3

In both cases GIB is just fine.

Anything else you want me to test?

Stephen

Thanks Stephen, this is good to know, but I am still concerned that GIB did not work for pigpenz.

There is nothing specific I want you to try, but if you can continue to use BBO on your Vista machine when convenient and let me know if you find any problems, I would appreciate it.

I am trying to get Vista set up on one of my PCs as well.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

That was the good news

The bad news is that 4.9.3 has gone back to crashing on exit running under Windows 98.

I bet its something to do with the ads......

[fred]

sfbp, on Nov 2 2006, 01:41 PM, said:

That was the good news

The bad news is that 4.9.3 has gone back to crashing on exit running under Windows 98.

I bet its something to do with the ads......

You are correct (except that the crashes can happen in any version of Windows). It will be fixed in 4.9.4. Sorry about this inconvenience.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

Quote

You are correct (except that the crashes can happen in any version of Windows)

Bleeve it or not, my favourite machine (the one on my desk) is still the one that runs windows98 and refuses to die despite many attempts.....

I'll try windows95 with 4.9.4

[pigpenz]

fred, on Nov 2 2006, 07:21 AM, said:

Thanks Stephen, this is good to know, but I am still concerned that GIB did not work for pigpenz.

after reading this went back and checked.....the double dummy analysis doesnt work when kibbing

[fred]

pigpenz, on Nov 2 2006, 06:08 PM, said:

fred, on Nov 2 2006, 07:21 AM, said:

Thanks Stephen, this is good to know, but I am still concerned that GIB did not work for pigpenz.

after reading this went back and checked.....the double dummy analysis doesnt work when kibbing

Do you get some kind of error message?

Is it possible that GIB is thinking and if you give it more time the results will appear?

After you click GIB button then "show double dummy results", if you then click GIB again do you see "show double dummy results" or "hide double dummy results" in the menu that appears?

Thanks for your answers and help.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

I admit I never tried it kibbing, I just loaded a file with some hands in and looked at the results in the normal way.

I assumed (possibly incorrectly) that live bridge might be different.

Does it do the same when you take a hand from your archive on disk ken?

If you ask me what I think could be wrong Fred, there are a bunch of preferences in Vista that stop things from running, for security reasons. I wouldnt be surprised if the setup in pigpenz' version somehow stops applications from spawning DOS ("console") applications, which I am sure bridge.exe is.

Stephen

[pigpenz]

yes when i open a hand up from myhands.php link and follow play nothing comes up

steve, yes i do get a dialogue box that comes up about allowing the program to run. One of the problems with Vista is that even if you set yourself up at the administrator of the machine you really arent...I believe youstill have to set up an administator accoutn and it runs some sort of script.

Fred and on a hand i had looked up at home and got an instantaneous result on makeable or not contract on 3.2ghz machine with xpsp2 I ran it at work on same machine with vista and let it run over lunch time and there was still no showing of =or +/- number for contract.

[fred]

pigpenz, on Nov 2 2006, 10:11 PM, said:

yes when i open a hand up from myhands.php link and follow play nothing comes up

steve, yes i do get a dialogue box that comes up about allowing the program to run. One of the problems with Vista is that even if you set yourself up at the administrator of the machine you really arent...I believe youstill have to set up an administator accoutn and it runs some sort of script.

In Windows XP if you hold down the Control and Alt keys and hit the Delete key, a Windows Task Manager dialog will be displayed. There is a Processes tab in this dialog box that lists all the processes running on your system.

I assume there is something similar in Vista. If you don't mind trying this, can you please see if there is a process named "bridge" that appears in the list after you click the GIB button?

"Bridge" is the name of the process that does GIB's double dummy analysis. I am wondering if it starts or not.

Thanks,

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[pigpenz]

only thing that shows up is netbridgevu.exe
when I open up hand from my hands and click on double dummy show

If i open up bridgebase and kib and click on double dummy show only program under processes is nebridgebu.exe

i was still able to
go to
c:\bridge base online\robots\gib
and enter in commands to bridge.exe from dos box

[fred]

pigpenz, on Nov 2 2006, 10:22 PM, said:

only thing that shows up is netbridgevu.exe
when I open up hand from my hands and click on double dummy show

If i open up bridgebase and kib and click on double dummy show only program under processes is nebridgebu.exe

OK thanks. Sorry I have no idea what is going on. Probably this will have to wait until I can get Vista up and running myself. Hopefully this will happen some time this weekend.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com

[sfbp]

may not show up as bridge more likely as ntvdm or wowexec

[sfbp]

Seems to have all its arms and legs under W95. Noticed that the logo on the login main screen (there was a more brightly coloured one on that machine until I did the upgrade, once of the very first with the new layout) didnt render very nicely. I have 256 colours on that display, probably the reason.

Stephen

[cherdano]

Another bug (with 4.9.4): I played some BridgeMaster deals. Then when I finished and clicked on "back", the main part of the BBO window (above the chat area) just became blank. Only after pressing back twice more, I got back the normal lobby screen.

I am using WINE (0.9.11) under Linux, so if noone can reproduce this, probably best to ignore it.

Arend

[fred]

cherdano, on Nov 4 2006, 05:55 PM, said:

Another bug (with 4.9.4): I played some BridgeMaster deals. Then when I finished and clicked on "back", the main part of the BBO window (above the chat area) just became blank. Only after pressing back twice more, I got back the normal lobby screen.

I am using WINE (0.9.11) under Linux, so if noone can reproduce this, probably best to ignore it.

Arend

Thanks. It will be fixed in the next version. This is not a WINE problem.

Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com