Installing on French computer
JenniBeadle
Has anyone else tried to install SILAS on a non English Computer? I
can't seem to get it to install at all on a French operating system
with French Word.
I had problems with other (English) computers which were set to
Switzerland. Changing the location to United States solved that
problem. But I think this is an even greater problem.
The current error that I am getting is:
The error is "Incompatibilite de type" (ie a type mismatch error.)
debug shows that it has stopped at:
NewVersion = CDbl(SilasInstallVersion)
Does anyone have any ideas?
Jenni
Jim Henderson Gmail
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JenniBeadle" <jenni_...@sil.org>
To: "silas-talk" <silas...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:48 AM
Subject: [SILAS-talk] Installing on French computer
> Has anyone else tried to install SILAS on a non English Computer? I
> can't seem to get it to install at all on a French operating system
> with French Word.
>
SILAS has been installed on Norwegian and Korean systems
> I had problems with other (English) computers which were set to
> Switzerland. Changing the location to United States solved that
> problem. But I think this is an even greater problem.
>
> The current error that I am getting is:
> The error is "Incompatibilite de type" (ie a type mismatch error.)
> debug shows that it has stopped at:
> NewVersion = CDbl(SilasInstallVersion)
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
What version of SILAS are you using? The latest version available for
download at
code.google.com/p/silas
is version 2.103-1.02
If your version is older than that, getting the latest might fix the
problem.
The line that causes the error,
> NewVersion = CDbl(SilasInstallVersion)
is for converting the version number string, in this case "2.103" into a
double-length floating point number, as an easy way of comparing the version
number of the existing installation with that of the new installation.
The error message tells us that the French version of Word is not handling
this conversion properly. If you'd like to help us check it out, you could
run the installation until the error happens, and then operate the Debug
button, then hover the pointer over the word
SilasInstallVersion and tell us what you see in the tooltip, then hover over
the word
NewVersion and tell us what you see.
Jim
Jenni Beadle
version (updating is the first thing I did when I have problems).
But I think I have finally found the problem. I think it has to do with the
French numbering system - they use commas for decimal points. As mentioned
before I have had problems installing SILAS on European colleagues computers
(English operating systems) and needed to switch from eg Switzerland to
Unites States in order for it to install properly. But it didn't work with
the French operating system computers. I just tried it again with Vista and
I got through the installation OK but still had problems using SILAS.
So I looked at your suggestions below:
...
The line that causes the error,
>> NewVersion = CDbl(SilasInstallVersion)
is for converting the version number string, in this case "2.103" into a
double-length floating point number, as an easy way of comparing the version
number of the existing installation with that of the new installation.
The error message tells us that the French version of Word is not handling
this conversion properly. If you'd like to help us check it out, you could
run the installation until the error happens, and then operate the Debug
button, then hover the pointer over the word
SilasInstallVersion and tell us what you see in the tooltip, then hover over
the word
NewVersion and tell us what you see.>>
JB: I found that both NewVersion and OldVersion and NewBuild and OldBuild
tooltips showed they were set to 0. So I hardcoded them to be set to 2.103,
and so far SILAS works perfectly.
Unfortunately I am leaving on furlough soon so I won't have access to a
French computer for a year or so but at least I have a workaround.
Thanks for your help
Jenni