Development of unusual difficulties in using FireFly

[Jeff Cranford]

I hope someone can help me.  I have been using FireFly for some years now with great results.  I am only an occasional programmer, and use Firefly for greating simple applications I use at the office.  I have used third party tools as part of these projects (SQL tools, Resize32, etc) without difficulty but now I seem to run in to a variety of error messages and inabilities to compile even the examples which come with FireFly.  (an example is the logon utility)

I have tried uninstalling Firefly and then reinstalling (although I didn't remove the FireFly directory after the uninstallation come to think of it).  The PBWin compiler runs well on its own, and several other environments or generators - SED, Phoenix - work fine.  I am a ridiculously undisciplined loader and experimenter with various programs - applications and development languages - but I don't recall any unusual developments recently and my computer (a laptop running Windows XPPro) seems to be running otherwise well.

Is there some simple 'resetting' procedure I can follow?

Thanks

[TechSupport]

Hi Jeff,

Do an uninstall and completely remove the FireFly subdirectory. Reboot. Download the latest FireFly setup from my site and do the install (don't use an existing version that you may have downloaded previously - trust me). If you run into problems again then email some of the CODEGEN_ files that are generated by FireFly when it compiles your application.

Please let me know your result. If you have continuing trouble then email me  in private and I may have another solution for you.

[Jeff Cranford]

Paul:

Thank you for your quick response.  Not being able to use FireFly when I needed has made me realize just how much I have come to depend on this fabulous product!

Your suggestions seem to have worked.  I downloaded a 'fresh' version of the setup file after having uninstalled everything I could find.  Interestingly, my registration information seemed to have been preserved and I did not have to enter my registration number again - is this a Registry thing?

Regardless, my projects now compile and that takes a weight off my mind and allows me to get back to being productive (as much as I am capable of doing that)!

Thanks again,
Jeff Cranford

[TechSupport]

Hi Jeef - That's really good news. Happy to hear that everything is back up and running.

Yes, the registration is saved even after uninstallation. I believe this is a 'feature' of Armadillo copy protection.

If you run into any further trouble then please let me know.