[PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7

[Steve Hendrix]

I already tried editing the ini files manually, and my libs are at 
the root of the ddb file. Still no joy. But Protel has no problem 
loading and editing the lib files, it just won't accept them as valid 
files afterwards.

FWIW I'm finding editing to be much faster under Win7. But that may 
have to do with a difference in video hardware too.

Still looking for a way to get those libraries loaded.....

Steve Hendrix

At 2010-03-19 09:37 AM, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have the same experience with Win7 and Protel. The only way I 
>could manage to get it to work is to manually edit "ADVPCB99SE.INI" 
>file and instead of the default library (PCB Footprints.lib) I place 
>the path and name to the library I want to work with. Only Note that 
>you must place the *.lib to the root of its *.ddb, otherwise you 
>must specify the internal path in *.ddb also (which I did not tried).
>
>I also noticed that PCB edit works much slower on Win7 that it did 
>on WinXP. Do you have similar experience? I think it is somehow 
>incompatible because on the Virtual WinXP (on the same machine) it 
>works a lot better. I also tried to select Compatibility mode for 
>Protel but that does not seem to have any effect.
>
>Best regards,
>Dusan Mihajlovic
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Steve Hendrix <SteveHx at HxEngineering.com>
>To: peda at techservinc.com
>Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 4:25:40 PM
>Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99SE vs. Windows 7
>
>I finally had to bite the bullet and buy a new PC, skipped over XP 
>and Vista directly to Windows 7. I have a mix of very old and very 
>new "mission critical" apps. Protel 99SE is one of the former. 
>Almost surprisingly, it installed and ran without a hitch. I was 
>even able to bring all my settings and customizations over just by 
>copying the INI files from the Windows directory.
>
>However, I just discovered a hitch. I can open all my libraries just 
>fine, but when I try to attach a library to the schematic editor 
>"Add/Remove", Protel says "File is not recognized" (even though I 
>had just opened it). Could this be related to the fact that all my 
>user directories are on D: on the new machine, vs. C: on the old 
>one? Doesn't seem to be, because I can put the library in the exact 
>same directory on the new C drive and get the same result.
>
>Any hints welcome!
>
>Steve Hendrix
>
>
>
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