Homer 2.01 launched (Windows/Linux/Mac OSX)

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Daniel,

When installing 2.01 in the Fritz10 GUI, it wrongly detects that I'm using Vista and wants me to move all my files about! Infact it's an XP sp2 machine.....

Regards

Paul

George and myself experienced this also.
However, if you delete the files that it advises you to, it will work.

Regards, Graham.

Hi Graham and Goerge !

Do you both using Windows XP too ?
I will look on this bug soon.
Thanks.

Daniel

[geots]

Hi Daniel,

When installing 2.01 in the Fritz10 GUI, it wrongly detects that I'm using Vista and wants me to move all my files about! Infact it's an XP sp2 machine.....

Regards

Paul

George and myself experienced this also.
However, if you delete the files that it advises you to, it will work.

Regards, Graham.

Hi Graham and Goerge !

Do you both using Windows XP too ?
I will look on this bug soon.
Thanks.

Daniel

Hi Daniel. Yes i am using Windows XP. It does incorrectly tell me i am using Vista. It tells me to delete the ini file, the learn dat file, homer.log file and default.style file. I deleted these 4 files, as did Graham, and then Homer 2.01 loads fine and seems to play ok. My question to you is can we leave it installed as such, or do we need to do a reinstall later after you get whatever bugs out causing this? That is the crucial issue. Can we run it ok after deleting those 4 files, or should we wait till certain bugs are fixed?

Regards,

George

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hi Daniel,

When installing 2.01 in the Fritz10 GUI, it wrongly detects that I'm using Vista and wants me to move all my files about! Infact it's an XP sp2 machine.....

Regards

Paul

George and myself experienced this also.
However, if you delete the files that it advises you to, it will work.

Regards, Graham.

Hi Graham and Goerge !

Do you both using Windows XP too ?
I will look on this bug soon.
Thanks.

Daniel

Hi Daniel. Yes i am using Windows XP. It does incorrectly tell me i am using Vista. It tells me to delete the ini file, the learn dat file, homer.log file and default.style file. I deleted these 4 files, as did Graham, and then Homer 2.01 loads fine and seems to play ok. My question to you is can we leave it installed as such, or do we need to do a reinstall later after you get whatever bugs out causing this? That is the crucial issue. Can we run it ok after deleting those 4 files, or should we wait till certain bugs are fixed?

Regards,

George

Well, Homer is fine. You can use Homer anyway.
I forgot to reset the test parameter, so Homer is thinking XP is Vista.

Basicly the user has no write access to the program folder under Vista. So Homer is copying und using his own setting files from, %APPDATA%\HomerChess directory given by the operating system, to give the user the chance to edit homer.ini for example.
But the original setting files in your Homer install folder still exist. To prevent that the user edit now the "no longer in use" settings files a message poped up to delete this files.

But this happend only if Homer detects that you're using your default application directory given by the operating system.

Maybe its been better to do the delete job automaticly and just given a information that the new folder forthe setting stuff is now <x> directory ?

Best,
Daniel

[geots]

Hi Daniel,

When installing 2.01 in the Fritz10 GUI, it wrongly detects that I'm using Vista and wants me to move all my files about! Infact it's an XP sp2 machine.....

Regards

Paul

George and myself experienced this also.
However, if you delete the files that it advises you to, it will work.

Regards, Graham.

Hi Graham and Goerge !

Do you both using Windows XP too ?
I will look on this bug soon.
Thanks.

Daniel

Hi Daniel. Yes i am using Windows XP. It does incorrectly tell me i am using Vista. It tells me to delete the ini file, the learn dat file, homer.log file and default.style file. I deleted these 4 files, as did Graham, and then Homer 2.01 loads fine and seems to play ok. My question to you is can we leave it installed as such, or do we need to do a reinstall later after you get whatever bugs out causing this? That is the crucial issue. Can we run it ok after deleting those 4 files, or should we wait till certain bugs are fixed?

Regards,

George

Well, Homer is fine. You can use Homer anyway.
I forgot to reset the test parameter, so Homer is thinking XP is Vista.

Basicly the user has no write access to the program folder under Vista. So Homer is copying und using his own setting files from, %APPDATA%\HomerChess directory given by the operating system, to give the user the chance to edit homer.ini for example.
But the original setting files in your Homer install folder still exist. To prevent that the user edit now the "no longer in use" settings files a message poped up to delete this files.

But this happend only if Homer detects that you're using your default application directory given by the operating system.

Maybe its been better to do the delete job automaticly and just given a information that the new folder forthe setting stuff is now <x> directory ?

Best,
Daniel

Thanks Daniel- The Best, George

[Daniel Mehrmann]

Hello,


a MAC OSX universal build of Homer 2.01 is now available on my Homepage. It supports PPC and Intel based MAC's.

I wanna say thank you to Tord Romstad who gave me the right hints.

Best,
Daniel