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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on September 13, 2010 at 10:24am

You generally will see that error when you do not have the proper flash player installed or the program is looking for an older version of it. Do you happen to be on a 64 bit win7 because from what I remember flash player can only run in 32 bit mode

Another thing to try is browse to
C:/Windows/System32/Macromedia/Flash and look for flash10c.ocx or flash9c.ocx and copy and rename to flash.ocx

Hope this helps and hope I am on the right track with my suggestions, its the best I can remember right now with no windows box in front of me.

Oh and you installed google earth as well right :)

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Permalink Reply by Jim on September 16, 2010 at 2:30pm

Hi Jeremy, Yes, although I mentioned it in the title I didn't specify it in the body of the message, yes, I'm trying this on a 64bit windows 7 OS.

Is anyone in the community running any version of ConfigTool on 64bit windows? if so there is hope for me :)

Jim

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on September 16, 2010 at 7:46pm

Do you mean the ArduPilot config tool? It works fine with 64-bit Win7--I use that combo every week.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on September 17, 2010 at 2:50am

Hi Chris, yes that's exactly the same app and version. It loads fine but will not display the map. On exit a windows dialogue tells me "this app wasn't functioning properly because it needed flash.ocx."

I've found (from following Jeremy's instructions) that I've got Flash10i.ocx in my "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash" directory, which i've copied and renamed to "flash.ocx". I've made copies of this file and also put them in the configtool directory and my win/system32/ directory, just for good measure. Google Earth is installed and works fine.

The only think I've not done yet is to reboot my computer, I'm running some beefy SQL queries right now which will take another 8 hours or so to complete. .

Chris, do you have "flash.ocx" on your 64bit windows, or is configtool happy running with whatever Flash9c.ocx / Flash10i.ocx version that it finds?

cheers
Jim

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Paul Mather on September 17, 2010 at 5:16am

Try this version of the exe: http://www.happykillmore.com/Software/RemzibiOSD/GettingStarted/Ard...

I tried these directions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1415352/flash-ocx-class-not-regi...
but I can't test it.

PS, this is v1.3... to do this with 1.4, click Project, Properties and on the Build tab change platform target to x86.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on September 17, 2010 at 6:56am

Sorry HK, no joy. The exe you provided doesn't behave any different to the one in the latest zip that Chris linked to above.

It's loading fine, just not showing the maps. Do i need to do anything on my side to register the .ocx?

I've re-installed Google Earth and rebooted a couple of times.

Jim

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Paul Mather on September 17, 2010 at 7:18am

The only issues I've experienced with Google Maps have been old versions of .NET and old versions of IE. Typically these reports were from users running FireFox and refusing to run any IE updates because they don't use/want IE.

Here's a troubleshooting guide for Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10781

http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21849

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Paul Mather on September 17, 2010 at 7:27am

I have no clue if this fix will work, but here's the Flash Folder from my PC. I wouldn't overwrite any existing files and you'll need to register the OCX's and DLL's (using regsvr.exe)

http://www.happykillmore.com/Software/RemzibiOSD/GettingStarted/Fla...

It came from my C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash folder

Again, don't overwrite anything.

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Permalink Reply by Jim on September 17, 2010 at 8:22am

Thanks HK

I use Chrome mainly, but both Flash and Googlemaps work fine in IE.

I don't have flash installed in the same directory as you, my flash installation defaulted to:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash

You have more files in your zip than I had in my install directory, and I've appended the files from your zip into my install without overwriting anything. I notice you don't have a "flash.ocx" file in there, so the error message (attached to my original post) must be misleading.

Can you explain how I would use regsvr,exe to register the ocx and dll's? regsvr.exe doesn't appear to be on my system and googling it was unproductive.

cheers
Jim

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Paul Mather on September 17, 2010 at 8:34am

I'm afraid this is over my head. 64-bit OS's seems to be a cluster at this point because nothing is written to run on them and I guess Microsoft is ok with that. I can't even tell you the difference in directory structure. Who knows, does it have a different directory for 32-bit or is that completely unsupported? I know on a 64-bit Vista I used I was able to run XP is a virtual machine and get 16 and 32 bit apps to run. Does Windows 7 have the same?

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on September 17, 2010 at 11:15am

Yes win7 has the same thing. Not sure were you get the nothing is written to run on 64 bit but ok. I think what you might want to check into is the WOW64 file redirector. Maybe this will help you some.

Registry keys specific to 32-bit applications are redirected from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software ---- to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node -- You may also occasionally see Registry entries under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WOW6432Node -- although this is unusual.

32 bit applications files are installed into C:\Program Files(x86)
32 bit system files are installed into C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64
For 64 bit applications, files are installed to
C:\Program Files and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
The WOW64 file redirector ensures that requests from 32 bit applications to open files in C:\Program Files or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 are redirected to the appropriate 32 bit directories.

You can also try running in XP mode. If you need exact instructions to run a 32 bit prog on the win7 64 bit I can post those later as I do not remember all the steps off the top of my head.

My honest opinion there seems to be weird bugs in this and the GCS I tried starting my own thread no one responded to it so figured no one here cares about bugs in the GCS and config tool and went back to using one I am writing that may not have all the features but works for me 100% of the time. There are different bugs on XP and win7.

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on September 17, 2010 at 11:18am

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the detective work. We do care about bugs in the GCS and config utility, but just can't replicate them. Everything's working fine on our 64-bit Win 7 machines. But if you can find some cause of it not running on others that we can replicate, we'll fix it pronto.

Chris

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