Zionworx

Hi, many thanks for this brilliant software - we've been using it for yonks, and its fantastic.

We've upgraded to Windows 7 + Powerpoint 2007 and despite minor hassles with PPT (another time...) its going OK, except for this major hassle: we get Access Violation errors when we start changing fonts.

Try this, it produces a repeatable error on my machine. I'm an admin user.

• Start Zionworx.
• Add a song
• Select the song in the playlist, click the TT font button, choose a different font
• Click the "Save Style" icon (bottom of the four vertical icons)
• Choose "Save as Global Default" and press OK
• Agree to the "are you sure" dialog.
• Add another song
• Select the new song in the playlist, click the TT font button, choose a different font.
• Access Violation! (eg - only eg, the numbers differ - "Access Violation at address 00406256 in module 'ZionWorx.exe'. Read of address 6C612091")
• Try closing ZW - I now get miscellaneous errors and have to resort to Task Manager to end the process.

Aha, why not run ZW as an administrator, or try WinXP SP3 compatibility mode?
Not a chance - it won't even start.

We get the Access Violation errors on both my home computer and the church computer. However I haven't tried the sequence above on the church computer yet - I just know I've had the errors after changing Global Default.

Any ideas?

Appreciate your help.

I can reproduce this on x64 bit Windows 7 too. But if I add all the songs first and then make the changes/save global style I do not get the problem - this is probably the work around in the meantime for this issue.

If I then add a song to the playlist and modify its fonts now I get the access violation.

Thanks, I should have said its x64 Win 7 - I've a feeling the church machine is x86

I've also tried this with ZW in a non-UAC-protected folder, and by right-click-running-as-Administrator. Same error.

My workround is: do any changes to the Global Default, close ZW, open up and do everything else.

davidhw wrote:Thanks, I should have said its x64 Win 7 - I've a feeling the church machine is x86

As Zionworx is also an x86 application, it will make no difference on an x64 machine unless someone hard-coded the path to the Program Files folder rather than using variables.