cannot make noclose work

jmwap · Post by *jmwap » 2012-01-12, 18:31 UTC

Hi, my environment is win7 64b, TC 7.56. I installed it and then made it 'portable' by copying (dont remember anymore). So this is not a normal installation with installer.

If i shift-return in a cmd file, the window closes immediately. I found a noclose.pif from the installer and copied to c:\windows, the window still closes immediately.

I tried with Noclose Replacer 1.2 and same thing...

is there something obvious I am missing?

thanks!

Post by *Hacker » 2012-01-12, 22:58 UTC

Hello jmwap,
Look for NoClose Replacer.

HTH
Roman

jmwap · Post by *jmwap » 2012-01-12, 23:05 UTC

hi,

as I mentioned I already tried Noclose Replacer 1.2 (1.3 is for TC8 only) but no luck, windows close the same.

Post by *Hacker » 2012-01-13, 00:03 UTC

jmwap,
Sorry, I must have missed that. Not sure what's wrong. Works fine here, Win7 64-bit, TC8.0b15 32-bit. Worked fine before with 7.56a, too.

Roman

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-01-13, 05:52 UTC

jmwap, try to copy e.g. Notepad.exe as C:\Windows\NoClose.pif and use Shift+Enter in TC - TC should start it.
Then try to copy NoCloseReplacer's NoClose.pif as C:\Windows\NoClose.pif again.

jmwap · Post by *jmwap » 2012-01-13, 09:25 UTC

thanks for the help...

Ok, using NoCloseReplace 1.2 works now...but only with a .bat, I was testing before with a .cmd and maybe that is why it never worked.

Not sure why a .cmd does not work, maybe it's a limitation of NoCloseReplace.

thanks again

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-01-13, 13:04 UTC

As I see, TC calls *.cmd directly w/o calling NoClose.

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2012-01-13, 13:29 UTC

Indeed, support for CMD files was added in TC 8.0β7.

jmwap · Post by *jmwap » 2012-01-13, 13:33 UTC

Flint wrote:Indeed, support for CMD files was added in TC 8.0β7.

ok good to know thanks.

BTW, is there any thread where TB8 is reviewed? What new features, how stable it is, plugin compatibility...

I would like to upgrade if I can keep my many plugins and customizations but first I would like to read some feedback from other users. I have seen the tc8 bugs forum but not a thread about a general review of it...

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-01-13, 13:53 UTC

jmwap, you may use TC8 with your configuration, all should work fine. Beta #16 was released today, it is enough stable to use it.

jmwap · Post by *jmwap » 2012-01-13, 13:57 UTC

MVV wrote:jmwap, you may use TC8 with your configuration, all should work fine. Beta #16 was released today, it is enough stable to use it.

that's encouraging..maybe I'll do that over the weekend. What is the best thing in TC8?

Also, i'm on win7 64b, I think there is now 32b and 64b versions of TC? Which one would be better (remember I have a somewhat complex install, plugins, customizations etc)

thanks!

Flint · Post by *Flint » 2012-01-13, 14:01 UTC

jmwap wrote:BTW, is there any thread where TB8 is reviewed?

http://www.ghisler.com/history80.txt

You can find and read the announcements like the today's one and see what the most important changes are. Generally, 32-bit version should work fine. There may be some incompatibilities if a plugin uses undocumented methods of working with TC, but there should not be many.

If you wish to try the 64-bit version, you'll need to update all the plugins to 64-bit version too; 32-bit plugins will not work at all. Also some external tools (like old AHK scripts) might fail because of changed window classes, you'll need to check them individually.