Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

I am having a problem running this program. When I hit the tab to enter the program I immediately get an error message regarding the inability to initiate a database engine (I am not presently at my computer so I am unable to quote the error message precisely).

I get the same message when I select the "sort" command.

I apologize for the incompleteness of this post, but has anyone else seen an error message when entering this program?

Thanks,
David

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Did you press the "create tables" button - otherwise you dont have any database to query as yet. If you have the full game, you will need to create tables on the SQL tab as well as the sort tab - each has its own data table.

And also remember to recreate the tables after any work done on scenarios - the tables are a snapshot, they do not dynamically update if you edit things.

There is a message box letting you know that functionality is limited, if you have the Free Demo version of the game.

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Mobhack,

Thanks for your reply.

As soon as I select any command in the program I get the error message
(not sure about this, but if my memory is correct the error number is $1208...or something like that).

The "create table" button does not work...same error message.

SQL tab also generates the same error message.

I do have the full CD version, and everything else works fine.

As I mentioned, the error message indicates that there is a problem initiating a database engine (bordline or bordlan....something like that).

Again, sorry I am not at my home computer to be more specific.

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Borland Database Engine

It should be built-in since it is the major element of the Borland Builder C++ compiler..

However it may require a DLL?

Will need investigating further it appears!

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Mobhack,

There is indeed a DLL file in the Scenhack folder (I think it is Borland.dll). Perhaps this file is not working properly in my download?

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Anyone else tried scenhack sort yet ??

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Question........did you try running Scenhack from game options ?? I just tried it from my test patch folder and it took a little while longer to load than normal the first time because it was reading the scenario data and creating the tables for sorting. The second time I tried it loaded right up and everything sorted as per design. It is a hugely helpful program for the 99.999% who have not commited all the scenario data to memory

That said we need to know if anyone else has tried this and has the same trouble

Don

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I have only tried running it from the "Utilities" option.

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Problem is, both Don and I have the full Borland development environment installed, which has all the Dll's too.

I am installing a bare W98 virtual machine (no borland products) and hopefully will be able to narrow down any extra DLL's involved.

Once that's done we will fix this.

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Yes, that's what I am referring to....the utilities tab in Game Options but I really need to know if anyone else has this problem as well. If it's common then we have to figure out what .DLL we have that everyone else doesn't

Don

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Sorry guys looks like it is an issue:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/b...pshtratarc.jpg

Pressing OK on error gets you into scenhack but any further buttons regarding sql or sort gives same error. :(

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Working on it - seems to be an issue of missing DLLs for the Borland Database Engine

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I get the exact same result that Scorpio Rocks is getting, from both SPWW2 and SPMBT. Scenhack works, but not the Sort/SQL buttons, keeping getting the Initialization error.

Everything else looks like it works with the "b" patches.

Steves308

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We are working on isolating the DLL's that might be missing. Neither of us even considered that we would have these things on our HD working quietly in the background that no one else would have because for both of us the program ran great right from the start....... but hindsight is 20/20 and we both missed the obvious fact that the sorting behaviour we were now asking scenhack to do was above and beyond anything else scenahck already did so it was accessing additional DLL's

Once we think we have these isolated we'll post them for "playtesting" for one of you who has had it fail.

Don

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Thanks for working on this. It seems that this program will be a very useful organizational tool.

David

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This one blindsided us and the problem now is the folder that these DLL's would normally reside it for a 64 bit OS are different than the 32 bit OS so its not just a simple matter of saying " extract these to your main game folder" ( or maybe it can be that's why this is taking so long while we test )

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

It is a simple matter of extracting the database engine DLLs to the same folder as the EXE. Once you do that, everything works fine.

Problem is there are 35 of the little darlings, some may be unnecessary. or all 35 are all entwined incestuously in a cats cradle tangle of interdependencies. I am trying deleting one at a time and seeing if things fall over, but right now it seems like you need all of them, or at least most of the blighters.

I'm just now going through the 35 DLLs deleting one at a time to see if things still work. It'll take a day or two to figure all that out.

Andy

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Attached is an "interim solution" to this problem .

Extract this to your main game folder......the same one your winSPWW2.exe or winSPMBT.exe is in then run ScenHack and the sort program....remember it takes a minute or so for it to create the tables first time around

Thanks

Don

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Seems to work fine! Thank you - this is a really neat feature. :D

(Tested on MBT only currently)

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So far.....so good then...........

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If you are trying to find scenarios from a specific time period or opponents this will find them for you......and if all you want to do is play a short game.....this will find and list them all in order so conversely if you want a big involved game it will find those for you as well.

Someone asked a year of two back what Market- Garden scenario were in SPWW2..... just look at September 1944 to find them now

Want to find all the scenarios involving the VC ?..... no problem

Don

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

I've also had the same problem on two different computers, both with Windows 7.

The "interim solution" fixed the problem for both games.

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Windows 10, initial patches for MBT and WW2 gives me: Error while attempting to initalize Borland Database Engine (error $2108)

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Downloaded BDE that was posted in Page 1, unzipped it to MBT folder; ScenHack appears to work now.

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Downloaded the BDE file and it worked. Any idea of how many of the .DLL files in the download are needed?

Thanks for this fix!

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Also downloaded the BDE and installed it for both WW2 and MBT, Scenhack now works for both.

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Same here, in both games.
Also if I start it from the installation folder

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Did you DL the files I posted ??

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

I have the CD version of WinSPWW2 and have been using the new Scenhack sort function (which I love) to find short scenarios, but there's a functionality that seems missing.

Is there a way to sort the scenarios based on the number of units per side? I like the smaller sized scenarios because it's easier to keep track of all my units and to finish a scenario in a reasonable amount of time.

If not, could you consider implementing such a sort value in a future update?

Re: Question Regarding Scenhack Program
 

Assume if it's a short scenario in turn length it's not going to have a lot of units for you to deal with


Don