Astrohelper help

[JASON LIGHTCAN]

I could not find much info on astrohelper anywhere, so I thought i should start a thread here for astrohelper problems and astrohelper tips.

Problem:

I re-installed windows 98 for my wife for her work, :)
and then installed astrohelper, and Although before it worked every time
now I couldn't astrohelper get it to start. Luckly it works on my other pc.

This is what it said...

RUN-TIME ERROR 429
ActiveX component can't create object
(OK)
:(

So I reinstalled the video drivers that worked with astrohelper before
and the same message apeared... :mad2:

I even tryed a updating direct X and looking at the astro helper site for
more help,but I couldn't find any technical help
has anyone come across this computer error before?
Or know how to fix it?

:doh:

Or Any other errors we need to know about? or have previously fixed,
for astrohelper?

I have also wrote some intergrated programs for use with astrohelper, I
would like to share these with others... later
But this error has put me off a bit! and Im not sure when to continue.

:rofl:

[Zuts]

Hi,

This error usually means either

(1) One of the components has not been registered correctly.

(2) Your wifes work computer is locked down and she does not have access permissions to create the object.

For (1), try and identify what components were registered and installed on your PC. Dcomcnfg from the run command is good for this. Then see if they were registered on the wifes pc.

For (2), get someone to log on as administrator on the wifes work PC and see if they can run it. If they can you will need to locate the DLL's and grant read and execute permssion to these DLL's for the wifes account.

Possibly another system object may be missing in which case good luck identifying it :)

Cheers
Paul

[JASON LIGHTCAN]

Thanks for your help on this.

Sorry for the late reply...:D Forgot my password Again :rolleyes:

I have also noticed another problem with astrohelper with the Altitude setting being about by about 3 degress out and azimuth out
by about 1 degree based upon other planetarium programs;

I tested Stellarium,cdc 2.76,Tasco skywatch and skychart III demo, all having simillar ALT/AZIMUTH values, but astrohelper did not share simillar co-odinates.

Is it possible that there is some way to fix this problem?
If anyone could make a suggestion or has also noted this problem
also, please... let me know.

I still think it May be a date thing, since it worked better on
previous years past.

:doh:

[JASON LIGHTCAN]

Sorry, but I made a simple, but insane mistake...:rofl:

Astrohelper works fine now.

After I reviewed a previous setup up version in another older folder
I had found the longitude and latitude were swapped over, obviously I was in made rush to setup the program, with a busy life a all that.

That would also explain why I had to set the timezone to an unformililar
setting of -9 when it should have been +11 for DST and +10 for normal time.:screwy:

The Alt and Azimuth are very close to the others now...

So I was just a simple mistake, hopefully others can learn
form this somewhere.:D

cheers... jason

PS. By rebuilding the previous PC, re-installing windows and starting from scratch, astrohelper re-started again. So it was most likely a permision thing, like you said.

Esp since I previous also had problem with the modem and now it also works as well.

Thanks for the tip!