mpeccorini

In case it helps some one, I was not adding my new form to the "floaters" collection in the MainForm class.

Hi guys, I'm trying to add a new floating window similar to those of the toolbox, layers, etc. I've made a new menu item and it does make the window appear but in only does it for a split second and then disappears again. I've just copied all the related code for a different floating window so I was hoping it would work. Can anybody give me an idea about what might be happening? Thanks, Mauricio

Hi jebrian, I had the same problem. The solution (that worked for me) was: 1. Look for the location of the program "mt.exe". In my case it was in "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin" 2. Open the file SOURCE_LOCATION\src\Manifests\embedManifest.bat with a text editor 3. Add the full path to the program mt.exe. 4. Retry building the solution. I hope this helps, Mauricio

I looked for the mt.exe file and I realized I was missing some files from the Windows SDK (v6.0A in this case). I repaired my installation of Visual Studio and the file mt.exe appeared in the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin. After that I was still having the problem, but I don't know if thats because the file was not there when I first loaded the solution or something, so I changed the file src\Manifests\embedManifest.bat adding the full path of mt.exe. That made the trick. I hope this helps, Mauricio

I'm getting the same compilation issues. The remark is of course not throwing the error but the call to the embedManifest.bat. The batchfile uses an executable called mt.exe and I can't find it (yes, I searched my whole hard disk). Can this be because I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition? Does anybody know a workaround? Thanks Mauricio