| From: | Matthew Allatt |
| Date: | 18 May 2001 at 00:12:59 |
| Subject: | Re: StrICQ |
Hello Andrew
On 17-May-01, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having some trouble with StrICQ. I haven't changed any settings, so it
> puzzles me that it has decided to stuff up.
>
> Everytime I try and run it, it freezes as soon as it displays the status
> of anyone that is online ie it goes through the login process, but then it
> squeals and rolls over. Any other programs running at the same time freeze
> as well. Mouse cursor still works and Workbench remains seemingly
> functional.
I know that one (I'm sure anyone else who uses StrICQ might know that one as
well.... some of your mui classes/mcc files, whatever they are, are out of
date. Unfortunately, StrICQ doesn't pop this up as an error, it just waits
until it needs one, and promptly crashes.
One of the biggest culprits for this sort of thing is installer scripts that
don't check versions when installing their own versions - they have a
tendancy to overwrite the latest version of some of your classes with older
versions that have been included in the archive that they came in.
>
> I have run SnoopDos and it appears to end after it fails to load
> 'busy.mcc' after which it goes into about 50 changedirs from the StrICQ
> directory to Ram:ENV.
>
That may be the one that's old. Best bet is to do an install from the AACD
every time you get a new AACD. It may not necessarily be the only one
that's out of date, so check the lot.
Regards
Matthew.
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