Installation Conflicts.

Bug Reports

Installation Conflicts

When Installing the program you get a message that -
"Setup has run into a conflict with another program. Please Close all applications and select ok to try again."

An example of a conflict would be having a program such as "OPWARE16" which loads with Caere's Omni Page Pro OCR software.

It's best to hit the cntrl-alt-del keys at the same time and view the programs running in the windows task manager. End the task to any programs that could be a conflict. Do Not End task to windows "explorer" or the "Setup" which is the BeamPro install program. Try to end a task one at a time and after each end task hit the "ok" button on the BeamPro installation window to see if the conflict program is removed.

Installation fails
The demo is downloaded and is unzipped and the setup.exe program is run and the following error occurred:

Could not copy steup1.ex_ to windows\setup.exe.

Solution

When programs are installed on your system many use the windows\setup.exe location to transfer there setup as my 16bit demo does. Simply delete this windows/setup.exe file and the demo will install correctly.

There is no harm in removing this file from your system.

Program Error after installation.

One report has an issue with the OLE portion of windows. In this rare case we had to email the program in two sections. One part installed files to the windows/system directory and the other to the application directory.

*** Since BeamPro has been moved to a 32 bit application there have been no reports of install probems.

Bug Report
2/15/04

Version's prior to 6.3
Bug in vertical & moment joint loading.  (vertical and moment loads at a joint - not on the span)

If you had multiple vertical loads at a joint and entered them as such the program would error on it's output.  Typically if you had multiple loads at one joint I believe many would enter a single joint load of the sum of the loads and the program results would be correct.

Example.  You have 3 verticals at joint #1 and they are as follows.

Vertical Load #1  100# @ 0.00
Vertical Load #1  200# @ 0.00
Vertical Load #1  300# @ 0.00

If you entered "3" to the number of vertical loads and put in each of the above loads, the program would calculate it incorrectly. It should be noted that upon inspection of the diagrams you would readily spot the problem. 
 

If you put in "1" vertical load at the joint with 600# @ 0.00 then the calculations would be correct.

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