Bugs under WinXP - Spider Writer Suggestions and Support Forum

The latest build of this product (v5.2.0) was released 23 years ago, which was before this thread was created.

Posted 20 years ago by Bill2 - Dijon, France

Hi,
First of all, sorry for my english, I'm french <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0">

I've just updatate my PC from Win2K to WinXP.

I've got very annoyings bugs ...
First, SP don't show folders icons in the tree view,
and don't show any icons in option=>settings.

But the big bug is Spider Writer don't show file in folders in the treeview !
In fact, it show head columns on all the height of the space reserved for the file list....
So, for each file, I've got to go under Windows explorer, and chose "open with ..." to work on these file with Spider...

My Windows XP is clean, all the lastest patchs installed this morning, after windows Install...
And of course, I tried to reboot, to uninstall and reinstall SP... but nothing change... <IMG SRC="eek.gif" border="0">

Do you have any idea ?
Thanks in advance.

Rubik's addict !

Comments (3)

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

We are aware that XP broke the way we had been doing icons. It's tricky to explain but we had been using Windows APIs (since Spider Writer is written in Visual Basic) to get the images in the lists. However Windows XP's common controls broke how we obtained the icons so that they no longer work.

However the file lists do seem to be functioning all right, at least over here.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 20 years ago by Bill2 - Dijon, France

ok, thanks for your answer.

For icons, it's not a big problem.
But for the tree view, I don't know what to do !
If it not work, I can't do anything...

Do you have any solution ? Do you want/need a screenshot to see the problem ?

Rubik's addict !

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

You can send me a screenshot.

Actipro Software Support