scummvw.exe has performed an illegal operation

mateus · Post by **mateus** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:58 pm

I'm trying to run ScummVM 0.10.0 on a Windows CE 4.2 Pocket PC but I get the error "...scummvw.exe has performed an illegal operation..." when the program is launched.

I've tried the WindowsCE build & the SVN build but both give the same message.

I've search the forums but can't seem to find a solution to this problem. Can anyone help?

Many thanks.

mateus · Post by **mateus** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 7:24 pm

Can no one help? Well it's ok as I've just got it working by downloading the GAPI pack from http://www.wincesoft.de. Seems I was missing some DLL's.

Now the only problem now is that ScummVM hides the Windows onscreen keyboard (or is there an option to show it somewhere?) So I can't get past the password screen on Monkey Island 2!

clem · Post by **clem** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:06 pm

mateus wrote:Now the only problem now is that ScummVM hides the Windows onscreen keyboard (or is there an option to show it somewhere?) So I can't get past the password screen on Monkey Island 2!

a quick search turned up
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php ... t=keyboard
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php ... ght=monkey

(I don't have any WinCE device so I can't tell if that's what you're looking for)

mateus · Post by **mateus** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:49 pm

Thanks for the info Clem. Unfortunately double clicking the bottom area of the screen does nothing & I don't know how to maps keys to buttons - I can't see any map keys option so I guess I need to edit the ini file. I'll check out the readme.

Cheers.

UPDATE: Just tried using 0.7 from the previous build list for Windows CE. It shows the keyboard in Monkey Island & there's an option to map keys (not there in 0.10?)

clem · Post by **clem** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:58 pm

mateus wrote:Thanks for the info Clem. Unfortunately double clicking the bottom area of the screen does nothing

one of the posts talked about the top-most part of the screen, though?

mateus · Post by **mateus** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:15 pm

clem wrote:one of the posts talked about the top-most part of the screen, though?

Oh yeah, d'oh! I'll try that...

knakos · Post by **knakos** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:30 pm

Read the README-WinCE.txt file Read the README-WinCE.txt file Read the README-WinCE.txt file Read the README-WinCE.txt file Read the README-WinCE.txt file

I think we ought to give some incentive here for the users to read through the documentation. Something like Donald Knuth has done f.ex.

mateus · Post by **mateus** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:38 am

Thanks guys, you must get quite exasperated with us noobs at times!

Clicking the top of the screen worked. I've used ScummVM on PC, Mac & N-Gage but this is the first time I've come across this feature. That'll teach me for not reading the readme more carefully.

Cheers.

knakos · Post by **knakos** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:05 pm

mateus wrote:That'll teach me for not reading the readme more carefully.

Please do read it, because we haven't got enough money to pay users who find errors either in the documentation or the code (at least mine, because all other scummvm developers do not write buggy code)