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Ken,
I am glad that you are up and running again without reinstalling the system.
As for working with RX - as for now there is no other workaround
then restoring HTMLView.exe.
Future versions will address this issue.
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Attention Report Extractor users-followup
> Tomasz/others:
>
> Regarding my hanging programs, a reinstall of one of the offending JASC
> programs seemed to "cure" the problem and both programs work again.
> Here is my question:
>
> I regularly use Rx to organize backtest reports.
>
> What is the recommended procedure to be able to continue to use Rx
> capability along with version 4.42??
>
> I can envision using the current new beta 4.42 and renaming the
> HtmlView.exe file each session in which I want to use Rx, then going
> back to the standard HtmlView.exe when I wanted to run portfolio
> backtests.
>
> Do you have another suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Close [mailto:closeks@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:01 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Attention Report Extractor users
>
> Tomasz:
>
> No, I received two error messages plus it automatically launched the
> Rx.exe program. It was not harmless IMO, although I defer to your
> greater expertise.
>
> Time coincidence perhaps....not blaming anyone just hoping for some
> suggestions.
>
> When my other programs "hang", there is no error message or
> anything--just freezes.
>
> Thanks anyway, I am in touch with the graphics vendor and will probably
> have to do a program reinstall, or at worst, a complete drive reinstall.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Ken
>
> (I now notice that I have gotten thru this message without my email
> editor hanging...hmmm???)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomasz Janeczko [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:50 PM
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: Attention Report Extractor users
>
> Ken,
>
> I really doubt if these problems were caused by RX. The error that
> RX displays if it is not disabled is simply "Can not open file" and
> that's it. This is completely harmless.
>
> The problem you are experiencing seems completely unrelated
> (even though there was time coincidence) and actually looks like a
> corruption
> of one of the system libraries on your disk caused either by bad block
> on hard disk or 'hard reset' and further attempt to 'fix' the problem by
> ScanDisk.
>
> If you are getting errors when launching other programs you should
> write down what exactly the error message says.
>
> If it says "Access violation in OLEAUT32.DLL" (or something like that
> then the .DLL where crash occurs may be the reason.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Close" <closeks@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:41 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: Attention Report Extractor users
>
>
> > This warning came too late for me, and the problems I am
> > experiencing may not have to do with the errors caused by the Rx
> > special viewer...but then again they probably do.
> >
> > When I received the error (because I tried the new backtest system
> > without disabling or reinstalling the original HtmlView.exe), I also
> > caused some hidden and related (but unknown) file problems. Such
> > that the following are my current problems:
> >
> > My email message editor (Word) hangs up.
> > My two Graphics programs from JASC (Paint Shop Pro and Paint Shop
> > Photo Album) both hang when their Splash screens come up. I have to
> > unplug the computer to restart as the Task Manager has no effect on
> > stopping the hung programs).
> > My PhotoShop 7 hangs upon startup.
> > Various other programs are very slow in start up.
> > But IE6 runs and I can use Outlook to read messages just not reply
> > to them.
> >
> > I have restored (WinXP Pro) to yesterdays automatically saved
> > settings but that did not help the problem.
> >
> > I suspect I am facing a reinstall of all of the programs that are
> > not working....but hope to hear some words of advice if anyone has
> > them.
> >
> > I suspect that some program that helps certain programs to startup
> > was wiped out when the error occurred with the Htmlview.exe problem.
> >
> > This damn thing (the computer) is so complex--like automobiles today-
> > --a problem like this pops up and it is not at all easy to recover
> > from it.
> >
> > Sigh.....
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > PS: writing this message from the yahoo group as my email editor
> > does not work.
> >
> > PSS: backed up entire drive as of three days ago so that is my
> > fallback position....
> >
> >
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > If you are Report Extractor (Rx) user and want to check out new
> > backtester
> > > in AmiBroker 4.42.0 you would need to temporarily disable RX.
> > >
> > > RX installs so that it replaces the HTMLView.exe Report viewer that
> > > is included with AmiBroker with RX's own executable, to intercept
> > the
> > > reports generated by AmiBroker.
> > >
> > > Excerpt from the RX docs:
> > > "The small program supplied by Amibroker used to view your back
> > test reports (HtmlView.exe) is changed to HtmlViewA.exe and a copy
> > > of Rx.exe is put into your Amibroker directory and renamed
> > HtmlView.exe. This is done so that Rx (the version named
> > HtmlView.exe)
> > > can intercept the report, process it if it has any Rx commands in
> > the formula, and then pass it on to the renamed viewer
> > > (HtmlViewA.exe)."
> > >
> > >
> > > Since RX is not aware of the way how new portfolio backtester
> > works it generates
> > > error message and does not allow to view report.
> > >
> > > So, in order to work with new version you would need to RESTORE
> > original HTMLView.exe
> > > that came with AmiBroker. This could be done by renaming
> > HTMLViewA.exe back to
> > > HTMLView.exe
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Tomasz Janeczko
> > > amibroker.com
> >
> >
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