Pie Slicer isn't working on my laptop. Little help please.

[Mysteryem]

Whenever I try to run Pie Slicer on my laptop I get an ActiveX error:

System info: (if I'm missing some that might be useful then please ask)
OS: Vista
Processor: Pentium Dual-Core CPU [email protected] (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
Memory: 1976MB RAM

I'm not sure whether this is a common problem or not. Knowing what some people think of Vista it could just be a problem with the OS.

Any help would be appreciated. Editworld and flaME both work fine, I just can't edit/create models when I'm away from home.

[i-NoD]

It's a common problem. Old VBasic6 stuff isn't welcomed by MS anymore... so we're out of luck with Vista/7.
Sometime ago I even tried to update the project to latest VB.Net Express, but VB was too scary for me
I wonder how StrataD was able to write such a cool tool using VB
However, you could try to run 1.06.082 build, it's a bit buggy but works for me
And don't even try to start that 'rendered view' of his...

edit:
If it'll work for you I can whisper on how to avoid .pcx extension requirement, but it will not read the actual pngs anyway...

[Mysteryem]

It's a common problem. Old VBasic6 stuff isn't welcomed by MS anymore... so we're out of luck with Vista/7.
Sometime ago I even tried to update the project to latest VB.Net Express, but VB was too scary for me
I wonder how StrataD was able to write such a cool tool using VB
However, you could try to run 1.06.082 build, it's a bit buggy but works for me
And don't even try to start that 'rendered view' of his...

edit:
If it'll work for you I can whisper on how to avoid .pcx extension requirement, but it will not read the actual pngs anyway...

I haven't got it to work as of yet, but, Pie Slicer doesn't actually read .pcx images at all; it reads .bmp images. Giel hex edited the Pie Slicer .exe to open pie files which have been run through simplipie (all the pie files in trunk) and to read .png in the pie files instead of .pcx.

[i-NoD]

I haven't got it to work as of yet

Maybe it has something to do with GFX drivers, I dunno. Unlikely that there will be some kind of fix...

Pie Slicer doesn't actually read .pcx images at all; it reads .bmp images.

I was talking about texture extension in pie file, not about reading actual .pcx images.
However, if you'll build PieSlicer from the source code it will read .pcx files

Giel hex edited the Pie Slicer .exe to open pie files which have been run through simplipie (all the pie files in trunk) and to read .png in the pie files instead of .pcx.

Then you just need to successfully start it on Vista