Does anybody still remembers StarClass? Please help

[HoldingMyBreath]

Hi, we have just begin the process of switching from Blinker 3.2 to Blinker 7. We have clipper 5.2e, with starclass - a mouse and GUI tool, which I think shares the graphical interface with clipper 5.3. Here is the thing... the blinker script is like :
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lib scg.lib
# this is the starclass library
lib 1stclass.lib
# this is the class library for starclass
lib clipper...

Under Blinker 3, the exe runs fine, but linked with blinker 7, the exe just blinks on the screen and dies (no message visible). It is the same under Win98 and Win2K.

Trail and error finally points to the scg library... if I rem out that library (just the scg.lib, not the 1stclass.lib), my "hello world" program will run, but of cause my existing app (with full mouse and graphical support) will not... it is missing externals everywhere.

Has any body run across this with their StarClass?

If not, can somebody who has clipper 5.3 please check if there is such a file "scg.lib" in you libraries? Can you please tell me the date stamp of that file? Are you using Blinker 7? If yes, then did you do anything to that library to make it work?

I have a feeling that the library may have to be rebuild to work with the new blinker, suggestions anyone?? Please??

Thank you all.

 

[RHankinsJr]

Have you tried to move the library into or out of any overlays within your link script?

Just an idea to try.

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Richard Hankins

Richard L. Hankins Jr.
Senior Programmer
Auction Services, Inc.

 

[RHankinsJr]

Oops, forgot to post this as well.

Search for STAR on it and you will see an update to star class, I am unsure if this will help you or not.

http://logo-bbs.dyndns.org/mailboxo/cl-tool/index.html

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Richard L. Hankins Jr.
Senior Programmer
Auction Services, Inc.

 

[HoldingMyBreath]

Thank you, RHankins.

We Have discovered that relinking the Star Class references using the new Blinker, (thus using a lot of objs instead of 1 starclass.lib) seems to work. Maybe the original StarClass.lib was linked under an old 16 bit linker, while the newer Blinker requires all objs to be in 32 bit?

 

[RHankinsJr]

I am pretty sure that the old one is going to be 16bit linking, I am unsure however of how blinker will handle this. It is very possible that is the problem.


Richard L. Hankins Jr.
Senior Programmer
Auction Services, Inc.