Excalibur 4 Choking on Vegas 6?

kentwolf wrote on 4/22/2005, 9:41 PM
JetDV:

Steps I took:

1.) Uninstall Vegas 5.
2.) Delete old Vegas 5 Program Files directory.
3.) Install Vegas 6
4.) Install Excalibur 4.

Now, when you go to execute script via the script menu, there are two (2) Excalibur items on which you can click to invoke Excalibur. If you click on the generic-looking script icon, you get an error that reads:

Warning: An Error Occurred during execution of the script C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas 6.0\Script Menu\Excalibur4\Excalibur.dll

Followed by the message:

System.ApplicationException: Failed to create instance of main class: 'EntryPoint'.
at Sony.Vegas.ScriptManager.Run(Assembly asm, String className, String methodName)
at Sony.Vegas.PrecompiledScriptManager.Run()
at Sony.Vegas.ScriptHost.RunScript(Boolean fCompileOnly)

If, however, you click on the purple icon instance of Excalibur, Excalibur starts fine.

What is the problem?

Thank you.

Comments

[r]Evolution wrote on 4/22/2005, 10:38 PM
It's the same with Quake & BatchRender Pro also. 2 icons... 1 w/ an icon & 1 w/ a generic script icon. Should there be 2 icons?
jetdv wrote on 4/22/2005, 10:45 PM
You MUST run the .js file and NOT the .dll file. The .js file is the one with the picture! The .dll file is not designed to be executed directly. ONLY use the .js file(s) for any of the Excalibur features.

Vegas 6 added the ability to run .dll files directly. However, the Excalibur.dll file is not designed to do so as I am leaving everything to be compatible with Vegas 5. Stick to the .js files.

As for the other programs showing two versions, the same would apply - use only the .js ones.
PAW wrote on 4/23/2005, 1:21 AM

beware there is an issue if you add the .js file to the toolbar

when you change sessions V6 will pick up the .dll instead of the script you originally set to be in the toolbar and you will get the same error

Paul
kentwolf wrote on 4/23/2005, 4:34 AM
>>...beware there is an issue if you add the .js file to the toolbar...

Yes! I found this out too.

Thanks, all.