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FLEd-IDS not working anymore.

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Post Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:14 pm

FLEd-IDS not working anymore.

Before when I used FLEd-ids, this was a while back, it worked perfectly and I had no trouble editing my dlls.

Now whenever I direct it to a folder and then try to get an ID (even valid vanilla freelancer), it crashes and gives me the error:
Run-time error '429':
ActiveX component can't create object.

In VB i know those has nothing to do with the code itself, rather that there is a registry call to open a key, but the component is missing. I've trapped my registry calls and only noticed one failure and that was for App Management service (so i started that up), still no luck.

Has anyone come across this before? It would save me a lot of work if someone has come across this problem and remembers exactly what the problem is.

I tried going the long way around and using ResHack and FL ID referer, but the latter program gives the exact same error.

Thanks.

Post Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:46 pm

I guess no one has encountered this problem or no one knows how to fix it.

Is there any other method to edit DLL info other than the ways I listed I was trying to use?

Post Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:18 pm

Do you have the unicows.dll file in your windows\system32 directory?

Post Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:28 pm

Yeah, I tried that, and tried registering the DLL.
It might be me very restricted amount of services running (even though I did start up the service which it seemed to want to use).

Post Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:20 am

I have modded the Anubis and wanted to adjust the infocard, so that it says the new stats. But FLED-ids doesn´t let me saving.

Post Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:19 am

I fixed up my Problem. I just saved under a new number code.
And for your Problem, Try to download FLED-ids again and then reinstall it.

Post Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:15 pm

The 429 error is actually a more general problem of a VB application not being able to find/create a component it needs, not just a registry call.

Fled-ids I would try running a few other VB apps and see if any of them have errors as well. It sounds like an incompatible version of one of the supporting libraries such as Oleaut32.dll may have been registered, something that some VB5/6 install routines do regularly.

Post Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:11 am

(Sorry for reviving this thread)

We (the creators of the CI-mod) have the same problem.
FLED-IDS always worked well and we almost finished the entire Criminal Invasion Mod.
However, now we can launch the FLED-IDS application, and make our way to the Freelancer folder. The dll's do no longer show up in the list, and when we hit a button or whatsoever, the application crashes due to a Runtime 429 error.

We re-downloaded FLED-IDS several times. It didn't work. We also tried downloading other IDS editors. They result in the same error.

We copied the unicows to the appropiate folder and we still have problems.

Anything else we can try to get our IDS editors working again?

Post Thu May 05, 2005 1:12 pm

Ok, now I've had it.

I just got a new computer, and Fl-IDS worked just fine.
Now I have to make some new weapons for someone on the server I play and guess what?

The old runtime error...!!!

Arg...anyone found a solution yet?
Is it maybe a program I installed?

Post Thu May 05, 2005 7:32 pm

I have to agree with WatercoolerWarrior, this sounds like a Visual Basic runtime issue. Try getting the latest Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime (Service Pack 6 is latest), here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;290887

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