New PIC Utility. PICMultiCalc

[mister_e]

I may still have the full installation package. Just PM me your e-mail.

[HenrikOlsson]

I just stumbled upon this problem on my Windows10 machine, ie where PICMultiCalc wouldn't run due to missing MSSTDFMT.DLL
It's very strange because I've had this machine up and running for several months and can't Believe I've not had to use PICMultiCalc on all this time. Anyway, the fix is as above but it took some additional steps to get it to work on my machine.

* I had to start Windows10 in fail safe mode in order to be able to actually copy MSSTDFMT.DLL to the SysWoW64 folder.
* Run the command prompt as Administrator
* Exectute the command %systemroot%\SysWow64\regsvr32 c:\Windows\syswow64\msstdfmt.dll

This succesfully registred MSSTDFMT.DLL and PICMultiCalc works again.

/Henrik.

[richard]

can you get the PICMultiCalc-lcd custom lcd generator to work . that has issues too
wants fm20.dll .

works on the 32 bit w10 laptop but not on the 64 bit machine

[sayzer]

can you get the PICMultiCalc-lcd custom lcd generator to work . that has issues too
wants fm20.dll .

works on the 32 bit w10 laptop but not on the 64 bit machine

Steve's LCD custom char generator works on my 64-bit Win10 here.

Must be something else.

[HenrikOlsson]

On my system everything in PICMultiCalc works - except the LCD character generator (which I've never used). It throws the same error as Richard reports.

Do you have FM20.dll on your system Sayzer?
If you do, would you mind posting it (I know it might not be 100% kosher doing so but anyway...)

Or, to Richard, if you have the FM20.dll file on your 32bit system would you mind posting it?

I'm reluctant to download such file from random sites on the internet.

/Henrik.

[richard]

My 64 bit pc has file in windows\system32 folder but it does not want to know about it ,
might try copying it to syswow64 later , it might load up if registered there

can't upload it to forum it exceeds upload limit

[sayzer]

On my system everything in PICMultiCalc works - except the LCD character generator (which I've never used). It throws the same error as Richard reports.

Do you have FM20.dll on your system Sayzer?
If you do, would you mind posting it (I know it might not be 100% kosher doing so but anyway...)

Or, to Richard, if you have the FM20.dll file on your 32bit system would you mind posting it?

I'm reluctant to download such file from random sites on the internet.

/Henrik.

There are two files, FM20 and FM20ENU.
MultiCalc needs both.

It appears that my FM20 files came from MS Office XP installation; yours might come from somehwere else.

Attached is a rar file; just rename txt to rar.
Includes both files.

[HenrikOlsson]

Thank you Sayzer for uploading the files. I managed to get it working by basically doing the same things as with MSSTDFMT.dll, namely this:

Copy the files to the SysWow64 folder (again I had to revert to safe mode in order to be able to do this).
Run a command prompt as adminstrator and register the fm20.dll using the 32bit version of regsrv32 (which, sort of conunterintuitively, is the one residing in the SysWow64 folder and not the one in the System32 folder) by executing the command:
%systemroot%\SysWow64\regsvr32 c:\Windows\syswow64\fm20.dll


After doing this the LCD portion of PICMultiCalc seems to work as expected which either means that I already had an registred version of FM20ENU.dll somewhere on my system or it isn't actually needed for some other reason - or there might still be some feature in PICMultiCalc that doesn't work which I have not discovered yet. I'll just leave it alone for now.

/Henrik.