Start up failure on recent betas

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JohnM
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Start up failure on recent betas

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Hi all,

I trust you all have had a Merry Christmas!

The recent betas of XY will not start up for me. I get this message in the "xyerrorlog-<date>.txt":
Main: 339 - Component 'wmp.dll' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
Please don't tell me that I need to have media player for XY to work!

Cheers
John
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Re: Start up failure on recent betas

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Wow, this comes quite unexpected. And it looks like the end of the WMP experiment. All my attempts to load WMP dynamically (as I successfully do it with the web browser for HTML preview) have failed up to now. So, yes, you currently need to have media player for XY to work. I had thought it would not be possible not to have WMP. You proved the opposite.

So I have to remove WMP. Pity! At least this solves the problem in the other thread.
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Update: I want to preserve WMP and I'm working on it. It's almost done, but there is a last stubborn problem that drives me nuts...: the dynamically embedded player does not keep the size I set it to but auto-adjusts to the video size on every interaction (play, pause, stop)... :evil:
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admin wrote:Update: I want to preserve WMP and I'm working on it. It's almost done, but there is a last stubborn problem that drives me nuts...: the dynamically embedded player does not keep the size I set it to but auto-adjusts to the video size on every interaction (play, pause, stop)... :evil:
See http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 846#p55846
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Re: Start up failure on recent betas

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I just ran into this exact problem.

I run XY portably on the Windows based web servers I maintain and they don't have WMP installed by default. Would it not be possible to just load XY with a message saying "this bit of functionality is temporarily disabled since you don't have WMP installed"? Silently failing and not running just doesn't seem like a very nice way to go...
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Re: Start up failure on recent betas

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lukescammell wrote:I just ran into this exact problem.

I run XY portably on the Windows based web servers I maintain and they don't have WMP installed by default. Would it not be possible to just load XY with a message saying "this bit of functionality is temporarily disabled since you don't have WMP installed"? Silently failing and not running just doesn't seem like a very nice way to go...
Not possible for reasons to complex to explain within my current time frame. :)

Whatever, the current v9.80.0127 will not have this problem anymore.
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