Created On: 24 October 2011
Problem:
When attempting to animate a program from within a project open in the Net Express IDE by double-clicking on the program name or selecting Start Animating option from the Animate menu, the Animator never opens the programs source but instead simply displays a command prompt window.
The program doesn't appear to be running and the only thing that you can do is close the command prompt which stops the Animation. Why does this happen?
The program doesn't appear to be running and the only thing that you can do is close the command prompt which stops the Animation. Why does this happen?
Resolution:
This problem can occur if your PATH or COBDIR environment variables contains a folder name which has an older copy of the COBOL run-time cblrtss.dll in it. If this older copy is picked up during the Animation process then the Animation will fail as described here.
Always ensure that you do not have multiple copies and different versions of cblrtss.dll on your computer, especially in your project folder.
If you have multiple versions of Net Express installed on the same computer then the IDE will find the correct version of the run-time by looking in the registry entry for the install location.
You should not have versions of cblrtss.dll on your system outside of the default Net Express location which is in the Net Express\\base\\bin folder.
Always ensure that you do not have multiple copies and different versions of cblrtss.dll on your computer, especially in your project folder.
If you have multiple versions of Net Express installed on the same computer then the IDE will find the correct version of the run-time by looking in the registry entry for the install location.
You should not have versions of cblrtss.dll on your system outside of the default Net Express location which is in the Net Express\\base\\bin folder.
Incident #2543016
Old KB# 35006
