Error 516

[Norman Blowers]

I'm getting Error 516:......REQUIRED: FF_CONTROL_SETTAG from PB10 regarless of what program I attempt to compile.  I've had Firefly for a long time but have never tried to use it until now and I get the same error regardless of what I try to compile (including all samples).  Obviously I have some set incorrectly but I have no idea what (after going through everything I could find about settings).  I'm running it under Windows 7 (32-bit) on an HP h8-1202 (8 processors).  Any help that would point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.  thanks in advance

[Paul Squires]

hmmm...not sure. Weird that you would get that error on all of your programs and the sample one too. FF_CONTROL_SETTAG is one (of several) FireFly Functions that get included in every outputted code generation for an application. You would find it in a file called something like, CODEGEN_<ProjectName>_UTILITY.INC. Does that file exist in your "release" folder? If not, then make sure that the option to Delete Generated Code after Compile is unchecked (this is found under the Project Settings for your application).

You should see several CODEGEN_*.* files in the "release" folder for your project. The main file that gets compiled is one called CODEGEN_<ProjectName>_MAIN.BAS.

[Paul Squires]

Also, are you sure that you installed FireFly 3.60 into a new, freshly created, folder? Installing it over a previous version of FireFly (especially Version 2) could/will cause problems.

[Norman Blowers]

Did a complete uninstall of FireFly, including removing all references in the registry (there were probably some left over from V2).  It fixed the problem.  Thanks for the direction!

Norm Blowers

[Paul Squires]

That's awesome! Happy it worked because I was a little worried about not being able to pinpoint the source of the problem based on the error you described.