Topic: Windows 7 core dumping

By: Barrie S.

Posted on: Aug 30 2011 at 02:47:20 PM

I've installed and tested Comm32, made it work on XP, transported it to a W7 m/c. It crashes the system immediately I try using it. Wondered if it was a version thing, downloaded v7 SComm to try. Same problem. I bought/registered v3.2s originally.
I'm developing using VB6. any help would be much appreciated. I'm having to move from XP because my cuatomers are insisting. we use USB to RS232 convertors without problems on most newer hardware.

By: Support

Posted on: Aug 30 2011 at 09:28:42 PM

I can't make it crash. Would you be able to make a small project that exhibits this problem so that you and I are at least testing the same source/project. If possible zip and email a small working project.

support at comm32.com

Or at least confirm that the problem happens when using our unaltered sample projects that are shipped with the download.

You mentioned v7. Please confirm that is 7.0.0.4 If not then please download again.

email us (address above) then we can maybe exchange some code and get to the bottom of this.

By: Guest

Posted on: Aug 31 2011 at 10:41:40 AM

I don't have any problems with it.

I develop in various machine including an AppleMac running Win7 Pro in a Parallels VM.

Also testing on i3 and i7 Win7 64bit machines. My users run various versions of Windows so I need to test on all of them. All my old VB6 applications run no problem with 7.0.0.4

I originally wrote these apps with MSComm32 which I just couldn't get running on 64bit machines. All I did was remove MSComm from the project, put sComm32 in its place and renamed the scomm component to MSComm1 and recompiled. Took 2 minutes. Possibly the best $80 I ever spent.

By: Support

Posted on: Aug 31 2011 at 10:47:58 AM

Thank you 'Guest' for those kind words.

And no, it doesn't get you your $79 back :o)