Re: Dream-com scripter and Server 2003

Joseph Gordon schrieb: 
Hi,

I have been using the scripter from Dream-com for many
years now.  They stopped having updates a long time ago
but it has been running fine on win 98 and win xp and win
2000.  On a Win Server 2003, events have stopped working
for me.  The same app that works on xp gives an access
violation when run on Win Server 2003 at the point where
an event is called.

Has anyone seen this and corrected it?

Thanks,
J Gordon



I have experienced the same problem when a customer switched to a new machine with XP SP2. I could figure out that it has to do with the NX (No eXecution) Flag supported by SP2 on a newer CPU/BIOS. Disabling this feature in the BIOS made Dream Scripter work like before.

The NX flag marks data segments as no executable for security reasons. But as Dream Scripter generates direct opcode for event handlers which is stored in data segments (where else), the NX flag will hinder the CPU to execute these.

Best regards
Uwe Raabe
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