Re: PgAdmin2 stopped working

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tille, Andreas [mailto:TilleA(at)rki(dot)de]
> Sent: 06 May 2002 11:41
> To: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] PgAdmin2 stopped working
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I used PgAdmin2-1.2.0 under Win-NT (insllation about two
> years old). Our network admin started a complete automatical
> setup (which is usually done here in our institute) with the
> recent program version of several Win stuff - please do not
> ask me what stuff was installed. I quite nearly use my
> Win-box - in principle using PgAdmin ist the only
> application. (And yes, I have a very different opinion about
> this which was expressed when you search the archive to the
> keyword "wine" and get there the thread with topic "Linux
> Version". At least it is strange that there is no comparable
> *NIX-Version and I see no reason to uses non-free stuff to
> develope production critical tools. Python or some other
> portable development environment whould be much more sane
> than VB in my opinion.)

I'm not going to get into that argument again. pgAdmin was written in VB
'cos in 1997 when it was started, people were shouting out for a Windows
frontend. pgAccess already existed, but iirc didn't run on Windows at
that time. I wrote it in VB 'cos that's what I knew then. If you think
it would be better in Python then download the ~30K lines of code from
http://cvs.pgadmin.org and feel free to start porting.

> The problem is that PgAdmin crashes with an error and claims
> that some ActiveX component is missing and I'm feeling
> frustrated because I'm not able to debug even if the software
> is free - but I'm missing the relevant tools to debug it.

Try re-installing MDAC (2.6 would be good) and then if required, pgAdmin
as well.

> Any idea what might be missing here. I really have no clue
> under Win because I do all my every day work under Linux.
> Thus I tried to follow the hints under PgAdmin - Wine but it
> also crashed and the PgAdmin-Wine.HOWTO seems not to be finished.

No, the pgadmin-wine.HOWTO isn't even started 'cos Wine doesn't want to
play ball.

Regards, Dave.