Windows 8 (was Re: aven on iPad?)

[Footleg]

OK, I'll do some more investigation. My laptop was also upgraded from
Windows 7 to Windows 8, but mine are 32 bit.
Survex/Aven was installed prior to upgrading the OS, so I can try a
reinstall to see if that fixes anything. I am running v1.2.6a

Footleg


On 11 December 2012 05:38, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> 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
>