Windows 7 compatibility

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Permalink Reply by Gordon on November 4, 2009 at 10:48pm

I have checked out the latest version of Power Music on a Windows 7 (32-bit) PC and there was no problem - SQL Server Express installed fine, but you have to use the SP3 version.
Has anyone out there tried the 64-bit version? I haven't tried that myself, so would be interested to hear...

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 16, 2009 at 9:16am

Installed on Windows 7 x64, although I had to grab SQL from Microsoft direct.
Used it for the first time in worship last night, worked fine - no problems with on-the-fly alterations of playlists.
Can't add .pdf's, but they did import from my backup file when I restored them.
Great to see you at Mission Worship by the way!!!

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on November 16, 2009 at 9:25am

Great to meet you too, Alun.
The x64 issues will hopefully be sorted in the next few days as we upgrade the activeX component which is used to view pdfs and integrate with scanners. This is a third party component we have now discovered is not compatible with x64 systems.
We will also investigate the SQL installation. Thanks for your feedback - it is really helpful.

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 16, 2009 at 5:28pm

Thanks Brenda,
Just thought I'd expand a little about the system I'm using. I've got Power Music on an Acer Aspire laptop, running 64-bit Windows 7 on a Pentium T4300 2.10GHz processor.
Thanks for the quick reply.

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 17, 2009 at 2:38pm

OK, not an install issue as such but I couldn't find a more suitable thread.
When I go to print a song sheet the report opens fine in Crystal Reports, but won't print.
This might be an issue with Crystal Reports, I've read there are some issues at the moment.
I'm working around by exporting the song sheet and saving it as a .pdf for printing and this works fine.

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Permalink Reply by Power Music Guru on November 17, 2009 at 3:01pm

Thanks, Alun. We will have a look at this.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on November 17, 2009 at 3:28pm

Alun - does the print dialog pop up at all, or does nothing happen when you press print?

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 17, 2009 at 11:36pm

Hi Brenda,
No response at all when I press print - Task Manager doesn't report a process running either.

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Permalink Reply by Brenda Cameron on November 18, 2009 at 11:01am

Thanks, Alun. As usual it is the third party components which are giving problems - not the program itself!
Have you tried the reports on your 32 bit PC or is this just a problem with Windows 7 x64?

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 18, 2009 at 11:33am

I suspected it may have been.
I haven't tried it on my 32 bit pc, but I'll zap it on there quickly (just to test - I'll take it off afterwards - licence, licence!).
This will probably be tomorrow.
Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Power Music Guru on November 18, 2009 at 11:40am

It is okay to have it on both machines at home as long as it is for your own use only.

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Permalink Reply by Alun McCarthy on November 18, 2009 at 12:00pm

Cool, thanks for the clarification. I'll post the result here once I've tried the print function on the other pc.

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