[NTLK] Can anybody shed some light on this Newton error?

[Andrei Chichak]

Frank,

When you are getting these errors, are you using the NTK debugger and toolkit (it’s been a long time, I may have the names wrong).

When these thinks “clank” you get one message on the screen, but a whole lot more information out the debugger port. Stack dumps, variables, reasonable messages.

(you probably know all of this, I’ll go back to lurking now)

A

> On 2022-March-07, at 18:10, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi gang,
> 
> By not I have enough texts in the French language pack that I can try things
> out. But I get a weird problem after the language pack is run through Paul's
> Watson enabler. 
> 
> The current situation is as follows:
> 
> I have updated NewtTest to support language packs and have run it through
> Paul's Watson Enabler. The Watson-enabled version runs hunky dory both on a
> Watson and on a plain vanilla 2100. Without a language pack installed, texts
> are in English as before.
> 
> I have written the French language pack. Basically this is a Newton Store
> Part that is installed like a normal package. This language pack works hunky
> dory on my 2100. It can't be (no surprise) installed on a Watson, so I ran
> it through Paul's Watson enabler, too.
> 
> The problem is that the Watson-enabled version can't be installed either on
> the Watson or on my 2100. On the 2100 I'm getting the following error
> message:
> 
>    An error occurred installing the
>    package "NT-FR". It may not work
>    with this system. Contact the
>    software publisher for further
>    information. (Part 0, Type frame).
> 
> On the Watson I'm getting the same error, only in French. 
> 
> Being the software publisher myself, I did of course follow the advice and
> contacted me immediately, but unfortunately I was unable to help me. 
> 
> Has anybody seen this error message before? Since the store part works with
> my 2100 before Watson-enabling it, I'd assume this must be caused by the
> changes Paul's Watson-Enabler applies. Maybe they work with normal packages,
> but not with store parts. I did check the package with a hex editor, and the
> signature at the end of the file looks OK.
> 
> Regards, and thanks for your help
> 
> Frank
> 
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