E-Run program not working on Windows 7, works on XP computer the files were compiled on.

[cjp87]

I just tried a few things. I made a program that was just the video in
a moviedisplay, which worked as intended on the E-Studio computer
(from both the E-studio file and the E-run file). I ran it on another
XP pc besides the one it was coded on, and it gives the same error.
Searching for e-prime error 11045 gives no results anywhere (including
pstnet.com). The folders are all embedded, so that shouldn't be a
problem (the filepath starts with Materials/Justin/etc., all of which
is within the folder the e-run file is in, so the varying documents
and settings names shouldn't matter). I also tried using the inline
code you supplied (and tried a few variations of it just in case that
was a little over-generic), but there was no change (still worked on
the computer with E-Studio, still didn't work on any other computer).
All the files themselves should be identical across computers, as
they're just within a dropbox shared folder, so any changes to one
affects each computer.

I'm running out of ideas, and for the life of me can't figure out why
it would work just fine on the one computer, but not any others, if
all the files are identical (and now I know the operating system isn't
an issue).



On Sep 26, 4:34 am, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
> What a weird error... To be sure, however, could you see whether something /does/ work if you make an extremely simple experiment, just running that very video you want to use (one procedure with just the moviedisplay)? So, first try to see whether the simplest thing ever, including your video file, runs on the win7 pc, and only then go on with the more complex one. One of the things I had in mind which might be 'OS-related', is that if you should store your videos in documents and settings\my videos\ etc, then this folder is different between OS'es, thus running into problems. To be sure, always put your .avi (and .bmp and whatnot) files in the same directory as the experiment, and always use relative paths. Anyway, you might also try add a little inline just before the moviedisplay to see whether indeed, the filename is set, something like
> Debug.print "File name is: " & MovieDisplayObjectName.FileName
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> I mean, if the filename is indeed not set (which E-Prime seems to claim), then there seems very little reason the OS is responsible for that.
>
> Best,
> Mich
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> Michiel Spapé
> Research Fellow
> Perception & Action group
> University of Nottingham
> School of Psychologywww.cognitology.eu
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> Subject: E-Run program not working on Windows 7, works on XP computer the files were compiled on.
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> The problem seems to occur when it tries to load a video (the program
> runs up until that point). Upon switching to the video frame, the
> program fails with an error code "11045, File Name on MovieDisplay has
> not been set". The problem with this is that the filename (and path)
> is set and identical on all computers, and it works on my one XP
> computer, but does not on the three Windows 7 computers I tried it on.
> Unfortunately, I need to use the three Windows 7 computers to run
> participants next week, up to three at a time.
>
> I know I don't have a ton of details, but it seems that the problem is
> related to the operating system. E-prime worked just fine last
> semester on these computers, but I didn't try to load any videos in e-
> prime for those studies.
>
> Has anyone come across this problem before? Is there anything I can
> add that will help you guys understand what's going on?
>
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