I have followed the directions outlined on scriptspot.com for setting up UltraEdit to be my maxscript editor, but I am getting an error when evaluating the code and my script fails to evaluate in max.
The error reads: “Error creating process” in the title line and then reads “The operation completed successfully.” in the body.
I have gone through the process several times and cannot figure where I am going wrong. I am using max9 service pack 2 and UltraEdit version 13.10a+1.
Are you under a 64 bits OS ? The mxscom bridge doesn’t work under 64 bits.
I’ve this problem at work.
But the new MAXScript ProEditor in Max 2008 will certainly be so cool that we will not use an external editor anymore.
I am running the 32-bit version of XP. Although, I have the 64-bit version at home and was running into similar problems.
If you’re running under 32-bit maybe you have a problem in your call to mxscom.exe from UltraEdit (check the tools configuration). I had no problem with mxscom (I use it with Crimson editor at home) except under 64-bit.
I’ve some problems to on 32 bit. At home it works fine, at work it won’t execute.
The error I got was, “unable to create activeX something” so I looked in my register and the whole thing isn’t registered by the script (Chris Johnsons’s auto reg script). But the old script deliverd with mxscom does register… so I checked it out and the header of the regfiles are different. The old one says:
REGEDIT
blablabla
CJ’s versions says:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
blablabla
The weirdest thing is if I run the reg file created by the autostart script it’s says it registerd it’s values in the register… but they are nowhere to be found…!? If I modify the header to REGEDIT… it does register and the values are to be found in the registry… but now I get different more cryptic errors from mxscom… It also takes time for it to come up with any message… It gets me very cryptic errors with numbers only… still trying to figure that one out.
I’ll post when I find ou more…
Maybe a good idea to get Chris involved…
-Johan
Are you running more than one instance of max at one time?
Edit:
Actually I think you have registry problems on that computer. I think that on the computer you have problems with, that 3dsmax doesn’t have rights to modify the registry. Simple as that.
Chris J.
Hmm, maybe you’re right… but I am a admin on that machine, is there someway I can grant max rights, or check if max has rights to add keys to the registry?!
If added them manually and it works now but I did change the header to REGEDIT as in the original reg file… Why did you use “Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00” instead of regedit? That seems to be why my registry is not picking them up…
Thanx for your time!
-Johan
Well, at this point, without more data to work with, I’m just as much at a loss as you are. If you read the script you will find that everything that is happening is happening outside of 3dsmax. And once that threshold is crossed, anything is possible.
Chris Johnson
No problem I got it to work with manually adding the reg… and I’m only using max9 right now so I’ll be fine, thanks for you efforts!
-Johan