VMWare Player may be a solution to the editor crashing

[Holy_Diver]

I think you might have problems running it that way...

What I did is install John's "Multi-kit" registry, then found (there was only one) key and changed the install directory value over to the networked mapped drive.

Only prob is when I run SOM it has that problem where everything is drawn really big and goes outside of the boundaries of the window. The DPI setting seems to be standard (96dpi) so I'm not sure what is going on here other than compatibility mode crap. Now the problem is XP won't let me set the compatibility mode because the exe is on a networked drive.

Copying the exe like you did would be a way around that I guess. I will try that and see if the out of bounds drawing clears up or not

[Holy_Diver]

^Hmmm, no difference. Any idea why this is happening??

[ArbalestX]

Well that's rather bizarre.

The main window itself may have it's window size locked, though I don't know why the buttons are off center...

(Is it possible that the buttons were positioned using a different method that didn't 'lock' them into place? ‎  I'm just guessing here. ‎  Something like a grid layout or similar of that nature.)

[Holy_Diver]

Shit like this is always a DPI backwards compatibility issue with Windows, but I did not expect to see this here. I'm not really sure what is going on...

I'm guessing anyone running this via Vista should get the same deal. So I wonder if Todd has not seen this yet???

It's weird. I set the system to the lowest dpi possible (72) and no effect on SOM. But at 120dpi the buttons are much bigger/want to be more outside the window border. So just adjusting DPI doesn't seem to be an option.

[Holy_Diver]

It's really weird. All the SOM apps seem to start out really huge. With like Tom's translated resource hacks on top and the japanese resources behind bigger. In general the way you see Japanese popup in John's translation indicates something is not altogether right with it. So it's possible this behavior is caused by something about John's translation. Everything appears double the size it should be. I'm really not in the mood to install Japanese SOM to the VM, but I might sooner or later to see what it looks like.

Oh yeah, for the main editing apps, if you can somehow close them (they are twice too big, so it can be tough to even get to the close buttons) then reopen them, they come back normal I think.

[dmpdesign]

It sure looks like you need to install the msgothic font.

Pull it off the installer.zip i have on here.

That should fix your problem.

[Holy_Diver]

That's exactly what I was thinking just now

[Holy_Diver]

^This is btw, why I think we need all of this setup for new people.

I mean for hell, instead of your installer, we could put together a completely confined SOM workstation for people!!

The only real constraint is it would be nice to get the VM filesize down to much less than 2GB, but we can probably do that by scraping a lot of crap off here.

[Holy_Diver]

I know I suck, but I don't remember seeing the font in your installer.zip. Maybe my version was too old, but could someone just upload the font to the server somewhere for download? Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have it on the site somewhere anyway

[Holy_Diver]

Wtf: https://www.ascenderfonts.com/font/ms-go...anese.aspx ...might as well just buy Windows???

Well I can't even copy the font files out of Vista's font folder for some fucking reason, so I guess I'll be needing that file for sure

Can't download the entire installer just for that font after all