A number of schools have reported problems installing and running the BlackCat suite of software on Windows 7.
All the Blackcat titles on Windows 7 Home have been tested and found the following:
| Decisions3 | Version 1.1.0.8 | Works properly – no issues |
| Fresco | Version 1.15 | Works properly – no issues.
We’re aware that the older installer for Fresco has a small bug which results in the Undo button not working. This is easily resolved. Creating a folder called undo in the Fresco installation folder will resolve this issue. ie C:\Program Files\BlackCat\Fresco\undo
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| Information Workshop 2000 | Version 2.1.4 | Works but File -> Save OR File -> Open causes the application to crash therefore making it unusable |
| Logo | Version 1.2 | After installation there are error with switching levels within the software. Copying the settings folder from the C:\Program Files\BlackCat\Logo to the default work folder\Logo appears to solve the issue. The levels are listed as UNKNOWN but everything works properly. |
| NumberBox | Version 2.2.0 | An error (HTML Help Class – Shdocvw.dll is not registered…) is shown on launching the application. Clicking OK on the two error boxes seems to skip the issue. Trying to Open or Save a file causes the application to crash therefore making it unusable. |
| PawPrints | Version 1.2.1 | Works without any issues |
| WriteAway | Version 1 | Reports error on installation.
File association with .waw files doesn’t work. This can be fixed manually but there are further issues eg Word Banks in Green Level don’t work.
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