Load rich text edit module error in PB12

[Former Member]

PowerBuilder 12.0.0 Build 5530

Application uses a Rich Text Datawindow.

When application is run from the development environment - works fine.

Deploy the application - copying .exe, .pbd and all required runtime DLL's to network.

Please help.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Ping

[Former Member]

Hi Ping;

  Have a look at the PB Help file & search for the keyword "deployment". This should bring you to a section on files required to be copied to the deployed PC along with your PB application. You should see the support files broken down by feature. Have a look for the RichText area and note the extra files to be deployed.

  Your 2nd option is to use the PB Packager application, which will deploy the extra files for you when you select the RichText option.

HTH

Regards ... Chris

[Former Member]

Hello, Chris,

Thanks a lot for getting back to me.

I did use the second option to create a MSI to include all DLLs with all checkboxes checked...

-Ping

[Former Member]

BTW: you are using the initial v12 release which had a lot of bugs in it. If you can, try using v12.1 which fixed many issues.

I would suggest checking the help files "file" deployment list with what the Packager actually really deployed.

[Former Member]

I checked file by file against the list below:

pbrtc12.dll, tp15.dll, tp15_bmp.flt, tp15_css.dll, tp15_doc.dll, tp15_gif.flt, tp15_htm.dll, tp15_ic.dll, tp15_ic.ini, tp15_jpg.flt, tp15_obj.dll, tp15_pdf.dll, tp15_png.flt, tp15_rtf.dll, tp15_tif.flt, tp15_tls.dll, tp15_wmf.flt, tp15_wnd.dll, tp4ole15.ocx

All files above are deployed.

As for the version of PB12, I saw some older posts about having the same issue with 12.5. 😞

Should I still try 12.1?

Thanks.

-Ping

[Former Member]

Hi

It might have been 2 years ago that I'd put an application with richtext dw on a computer that had at that time no

PowerBuilder installed on it; and it ran fine.

Are you sure that you don't have security problems with loading the dll's from the network?

Monitoring with processmonitor should show up if you have access denied problems or if there are dll's it is searching for and not found.

Except for the exe pbd's and database related dll's, I have following files in the directory:

05-07-2013  11:49           342.448 libjcc.dll

05-07-2013 09:34 32.768 libjtml.dll

05-07-2013  11:49            63.920 libjutils.dll

03-05-2013  13:47            24.576 nlwnsck.dll

03-05-2013  16:14         4.008.368 PBDWE125.DLL

03-05-2013  16:17           305.584 PBRTC125.DLL

03-05-2013  16:17         3.049.904 PBSHR125.DLL

03-05-2013  16:18         4.956.592 PBVM125.DLL

05-07-2013  09:46           811.008 tp15.dll

05-07-2013  09:46            61.440 tp15_bmp.flt

05-07-2013  09:46           360.448 tp15_css.dll

05-07-2013  09:46           774.144 tp15_doc.dll

05-07-2013  09:46         1.093.632 tp15_dox.dll

05-07-2013  09:46            57.344 tp15_gif.flt

05-07-2013  09:46           643.072 tp15_htm.dll

05-07-2013  09:46           131.072 tp15_ic.dll

05-07-2013  09:46               530 tp15_ic.ini

05-07-2013  09:46           200.704 tp15_jpg.flt

05-07-2013  09:46           327.680 tp15_obj.dll

05-07-2013  09:46           655.360 tp15_pdf.dll

05-07-2013  09:46           253.952 tp15_png.flt

05-07-2013  09:46           577.536 tp15_rtf.dll

05-07-2013  09:46            73.728 tp15_tif.flt

05-07-2013  09:46           237.568 tp15_tls.dll

05-07-2013  09:46            53.248 tp15_wmf.flt

05-07-2013  09:46            65.536 tp15_wnd.dll

05-07-2013  09:46           344.064 tp4ole15.ocx

[Former Member]

Hi Ping;

FWIW: I do not think moving to PB 12.x may be the issue - but, I did encounter many issues with v12.0 that were cleaned up in 12.1. The same for v 12.5.0 vs 12.5.1/12.5.2. That statement was an FYI.

My experience on deploying the RTE DW was the same as Ben posts above. I had no issues at all as long as I deployed the files as per the MSI and or PB Help (manual copy). I did install these locally though vs loading them from a network. Ben might have a good point to check here!

Regards ... Chris

[Former Member]

Thank you, Ben.

I checked the files you listed, we have them all. Those files are deployed to the local computer.

What version of PB12.5 do you have?

-Ping

[Former Member]

Thank you, Chris. I deployed all the DLLs locally.

I will try to get the latest version of powerbuilder and see if it will resolve the issue.

One question is the computer that runs the exe has windows 12 (64 bit). Do you think there might be compatibility issues there? I tried to run the exe on this machine as in windows7 environment, still got error.

-Ping

[Former Member]

Hmmm ... do you mean Windows Server 2012?

W7 (64 bit) O/S is where my many of my users run their RTE based applications from (built with PB 12.1 and 12.5.1) - with no issues.

[Former Member]

Yes, my program runs on a windows server 2012 machine.