Well a few weeks back I released rfid Learning Table to the wild and was surprised to find that not everyone else’s PC was identical to mine. ;)  Turns out some folks really did buy Vista and install it on their PC. After sitting down and thinking about that for a while, I realised I would have to find out what was going wrong for my newly found Vista customers.

I booted Vista in VMWare’s excellent VMware Workstation and got to testing. The Learning Table Editor worked fine, but for some reason the Player application kept complaining it couldn’t find the multimedia files to play back.

A little more investigation found that Vista had determined the files were user data and media files and had simply changed the physical location and path to where the files were stored on the PC! Now it wasn’t a bad location it put the files in and really, I probably should have put them there in the first place, but I didn’t and instead had them in the same folder as the executable. Vista was doing a good job of redirecting the Editor to look in the new location, but didn’t do the same for the Player and that’s where the fun started for our Vista customers.

So back into the code and after a day and a half of testing the new and improved rfid Learning Table was Vista compatible.

Anyway it was a good lesson and reminder to delve into the world of Vista a bit more and learn what else has changed...