(4) Unfortunately I d= o not have access to test machines before half September begin October,

so I can not help you in Beta testing.

(5) MS and Sun are not the b= est friends. Contact one (MS) or both directly from your

University could provide clues or hints to help you.

They CERTAINLY have code problems with most off their applications.

Have the latest JDK and JRE. It could be possible that it runs on a JD= K machine

and not on a JRE machine. Some sun pleasures.

(6) Last but also a quick an= d dirty patch.

If you have to compile some the code, insert compiling code and s= witches for a Japanese and an English version, and distribute two exe= cutable versions.

If the English version works, 99 pc chance that mostly all European ve= rsions would work too.

(French Netherlands German Scandinavian...)

It is absolutely inelegant and nasty work but if it helps...

But please, keep one code, and two executables else you become both cr= azy after debugging and

addons and cleaning and maintaining your code.

Hope this simple and stupid hints would help you.

Or give idea's to other people...

Yours Sincerely.

Alain Vanhentenryck

(Belgium)

On 24/08/07, Reijer Grimbergen < yz yamagata-u ac jp">grim= @yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp> wrote:

I have established contact w= ith the author of Shogidokoro and we will be
working together to make an= English version of the program.

Unfortunately, we have been unable to isolate the problem that cras= hes
the program when run on a non-Japanese Windows PC. We thought it mig= ht
have to do with the display of Japanese characters, but a simple test
showed that this not the problem. Any suggestions are welcome!

R= eijer

Reijer Grimbergen wrote:

> Hi Bernard,
>
&g= t; There definitely is a problem with running Shogidokoro on a non-Japanese
> Windows machine. The website says the program needs Microsoft .NET=
> Framework 2.0 to run, but this is only true for Japanese Windows. = When I
> tried to install Shogidokoro on an English Windows XP, it cr= ashed just
> like you said.
>
> I will try to contact the author ab= out this to try and solve the
> problem. I am also planning to contac= t the author about a version where
> at least the GUI is in English (= translating the long explanation on the
> website is not going to be so easy, though...). Problem is that th= ere is
> no contact link on the website (no name, no mail), so I am w= aiting for a
> reply on Yamashita's BBS at the moment.
>
> Reijer
>
>
> Bernhard C. M=E4rz wrote:
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This program looks great= ...
>>
>> ... but it didn't work on my computer.
>>
>>
>>> Shogidokoro should run on WindowsXP/20= 00 according to the page
>>> through the URL Reijer pointed out= .
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe it need also a Japa= nese Windows???
>>
>>
>> I have tested Shogidokoro at 3 differe= nt computers (2x XP professional
>> and 1x XP home).
>> A= t one computer I got an error message ("Shogidokoro has problems and
>> must be ended. Do you like to inform Microsoft ...") and = at the other
>> two computers the process simply disappeared after= a few seconds.
>>
>> I'm really experienced with &qu= ot;japanize your western windows" and after
>> some time I even found the option "Language for programs = without
>> UNICODE-Support" with which Japanese works very we= ll. (I believe only
>> Java didn't use this option in non-UNIC= ODE-Controls and in such
>> programs there is still something to do.)
>>
>&= gt;
>> Also there is one more program with the same problems as Sh= ogidokoro:
>> MyBona.exe
>> MyBona.exe didn't work wi= th the same error description. I didn't took
>> too much attention at it, because there are good other GUIs fo= r
>> Bonanza. (But still I wondered, why it's not working.)>>
>> But now it seems (in my eyes), that the pr= oblem is=20 Dot.NET for
>> Japanese programs in western windows.
>> O= f course I had installed the correct Version of Dot.NET (simply
>>= testing it by renaming the
>> "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Fram= ework\v2.0.50727" directory I got a
>> message that this version of Dot.NET is missing).
>> = Also I had tried the language pack for Dot.NET without success.
>>=
>> Is there somebody with nonjapanese window where Shogidokoro an= d MyBona
>> are working?
>> Can somebody help me, please?
>= >
>> For MyBona it was not so important, but I really like to g= et
>> Shogidokoro working and maybe this will be really the start = of a
>> similar success story happened with Arena (or even X-/WinBoard= ) in the
>> chess world.
>>
>> By the way: are t= here plans for Shogidokoro to support different
>> languages (at l= east English - which should be enough)? ;-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernhard
>&g= t;
>>
>>
>>
>

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Reijer Grim= bergen
Department of Informatics, Yamagata University
Jonan 4-3-16, Y= onezawa, 992-8510 Japan
Tel: +81-(0)238-26-3740 FAX: +81-(0)238-26-3299
http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp= ------------------------------------

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