Help with the Executable Options

[billhsln]

I deleted my older version of EBasic, then installed a newer version on my PC.  I then reloaded MYPrograms from a backup USB Drive, just copied the files into
C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\My Documents\Emergence BASIC\projects\MYPrograms.  My problem is that now every program I pull up, shows the "Compile and Execute" and the "Execute" buttons in green (saying I can just click on them to recompile.  However, I save my programs in MYPrograms and when I look at "Build Single" it shows:

Executable File Name: C:\Documents and Settings\Bill.exe

with the Icon from which ever program I compiled prior to the one I pulled up.

Any idea, what I am doing wrong or is wrong?  Also, it seems that when I correct where the executable is and save it, it does not stay saved, it comes back as: C:\Documents and Settings\Bill.exe

Thanks for any help or advice,
Bill

[jsanders]

Bill,
Delete all the .opts files in the directory where the source files are located.  They are not transportable between directories.  You should then be able to chose a proper location to save them in.

Regards,
James Sanders

[billhsln]

James, I deleted every .OPTS file from my system.  It is still doing the same thing.  Also, it now wants to save everything in: C:\Documents and Settings

I am going to try uninstalling every thing and then reinstalling, maybe that will clear it up.

Thanks for your help,
Bill

[billhsln]

I found the real problem.  It seems that Ebasic does not like periods (.) in directory names.  My default was:  C:\Documents and Settings\Bill.POGI\My Documents\Emergence BASIC\projects\MyProgs

This seems to give Ebasic all kinds of strange problems.  Switched to C:\Documents and Settings\Bill\My Documents\Emergence BASIC\projects\MyProgs
and now it seems to work fine.

Just FYI for anyone else who may run into this problem.

Take care,
Bill

[Ionic Wind Support Team]

That would be my fault, and I will fix it for the next update.  Never realized you could have a point in a directory name itself under Windows, never tried

Paul.

[billhsln]

Not a large problem as long as we know about it.

Question, why did you go from having the program source under EMDEV to having it under My Documents?  and could we make that an OPTION?  The reason is, if it was under a consistent sub directory such as "C:\Program Files\EBDev\Projects" we are able to transfer our sources and other files between multiple machines.  With it under My Documents, the real sub directory address varies, which screws up the .OPTS files.

Thanks,
Bill