Windows 8 (was Re: aven on iPad?)

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:05:38PM +0000, Footleg wrote:
> Olly, All that appears is that message (text as you gave it). It appears
> when you open Aven by itself, or via opening a file. Nothing else is shown
> apart from the error message in a message box. When you close the message
> box nothing else is shown.

That narrows it down quite a bit, but I don't see anything obviously
suspect in the code before the main window is created.

But Peter Kellaway sent me a mail off-list to say aven works for him -
perhaps you can see if there's an obvious difference between your setup
and his:

| I've just downloaded and installed Survex and found Aven running
| perfectly.  Using the sample data all.3d Caves of the Loser Plateau no
| errors either with menu or "file" loading.
| 
| This laptop was upgraded from W7 64bit to W8 64bit (no clean install)
| and no previous survex installed. Aven is not running in any
| compatability mode
| 
| Aven about window:
| 
| Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200)
| 
| Built with wxWidgets 2.8.12
| 
| Display Depth: 32 bpp (colour)
| 
| OpenGL 1.1.0
| 
| Microsoft Corporation
| 
| GDI Generic
| 
| R8G8B8
| 
| Max Texture size: 1024x1024
| 
| Max Viewport size: 16384x16384
| 
| Smooth Point Size 0.500-10.000 (granularity 0.125)
| 
| Double buffered: true
| 
| GL_WIN_swap_hint GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_paletted_texture

Cheers,
    Olly