usb to serial crashes but ok elswhere

rdrive · Post by **rdrive** » 19 May 2013, 18:10 PM

I have installed xbasic on two machines with same problem. the basic goes in then my usb to serial goes in and when I go to options serial port it crashes " wants to send report" this usb to serial has worked ok for years and it works ok for other computer with xbasic. any ideas

Post by **dkinzer** » 20 May 2013, 8:30 AM

What is the version of the ZBasic IDE that you're using? It is possible that the USB/Serial driver is reacting oddly to the code that determines what serial ports are present. Recent versions of the IDE use the Windows API QueryDosDevice() while earlier version scanned the registry.

What Windows version is being used where there is a problem?

rdrive · Post by **rdrive** » 20 May 2013, 20:50 PM

I'm using 4.1.5 that i just downloaded and after the install I don't even have to plug the serial cable in I just load zbasic then go to serial port option and it crashes and shuts down zbasic. I installed it on two different pc's with the same result. both are AMD 3 gig htz plenty of ram and the first thing loaded.
windows xp sp2, also it set the right port. below is the error reported if you want more details i will get them

AppName: zbasicide.exe AppVer: 1.6.5.0 ModName: zbasicide.exe
ModVer: 1.6.5.0 Offset: 0002888f

Post by **dkinzer** » 21 May 2013, 9:38 AM

rdrive wrote:I'm using 4.1.5 that i just downloaded[...]

OK. I suspect that this is the same issue that was reported in another thread. Download the v1.6.6 of the IDE (link below) and extract the executable to the IDE subdirectory of the ZBasic installation directory.

http://www.zbasic.net/download/ZBasicID ... _1-6-6.zip

We'll get an updated installer posted soon.