Paltalk Scene 9.x Forum

Paltalk Scene 9.2 seems to install smoothly initially. (However, I'm not quite sure if I need to force-quit the CrossOver bottle install-capture when the software install ends itself, or if I should continue through and actually logon to the chat messenger and exit out of it once ~ which then initiates the CrossOver reboot and "FINISH" of the install capture). For the record, I've only been able to do the latter and have the program.app icons show up in my Programs Folder in CrossOver.

Paltalk Scene 9.2 logs in successfully and connects to the Paltalk Servers successfully.
Pal lists show up and update sucessfully.

However, beyond anything that is web-linked (help pages, Paltalk News Today, etc.), functionality seems to cease at the logon stage:

1. Sending Text: Unable to as both the ENTER key and the SEND button on chat boxes do a Command Return to the next text line for more typing. Text can not be sent via any means

2. Chat Room List: Although Pals/Friends updates and acknowledges who is available successfully, the same is not true for Chat Rooms. Paltalk using CrosOver bottles fails to see any chat rooms.

3. Macbook Pro integrated camera not recognized.

4. AUDIO send button fails to initiate audio chat (appears to attempt to do so for 10 seconds, then stops. No error messages or alert messages.)

That is an initial look at Paltalk Scene 9.2 via CrossOver with the latest builds/releases thus far.

I have also tried, unsuccessfully, to install Pal Talk. I get a successful installation message and can sign in. I get the Welcome screen -- but get the following error message:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Paltalk Messanger\Paltalk.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

Unfortunately, I do not have the technical expertise to resolve this error message.

Any ideas?

Update: On second attempt, Pal Talk installed without error. However, results are similar to those reported by Richio. The main difference is that chat rooms did list -- although it took excessively long. I could not, however, enter a chat room.

I also noticed that the requirements for Pal Talk 9.2 lists Windows 2000 or later. The default bottle installed on my iMac was Win98. I then created a WinXP bottle but still get waring messages about the WinXP Bottle being incompatible with the application being installed. I do not know that the WinXP bottle installed correctly.

Art,

That's an excellent point. We should probably try installing PAL 8.5 since it is the Win9x/ME compatible version and see if it works.

Richey

Hello,

My experience is similar to that of Richiro with PaltalkScene build 17709 on OS X 10.4.9 with CrossOver Mac 6.1.0. So far, the best results I've had are creating a new winxp bottle and then installing Internet Explorer 6 into it. With a win2k bottle, networking failed. Either select Full or custom install for IE. With the latter, ensure the Flash plugin gets installed. Now install PaltalkScene into that bottle.

To get the install to finish, you have to either cancel out of the Paltalk login dialog or login and then logout.

Upon reviewing the install log, \windows\PaltalkScene Setup Log.txt, there was only one error and it related to creating the uninstaller.

1. Chat Room List: This didn't work for me either until I hit the Reload button on top a few times in quick succession. Then the rooms showed up. However, clicking on a room and then the Join button at the bottom didn't work.

2. Room Invites: Before I could get the list of rooms, tried inviting myself into a room from another computer which would then in theory allow adding that room to my favorites once I got in but invites aren't received so this fails.

3. Slider Alerts: These alerts on the bottom right of the screen aren't displayed correctly and cascade up the screen. Disable them in File, Setup Preferences, Sliders and uncheck all Slider notifications.

4. In Setup and Preferences under the General tab, uncheck the option, "Automatically start PaltalkScene" is it makes no sense the way PaltalkScene is launched from CrossOver.

Turning on logging by using Programs, Run Command showed errors like this:

fixme:wininet:IsHostInProxyBypassList STUB: flags=3 host=advertising.paltalk.com length=23

So then it dawned on me that maybe the built-in Wine wininet.dll was being used instead of the one installed with IE. So, from the Manage Bottles dialog, I selected the desired Bottle, Control Panel tab and then launched winecfg. Clicking the Libraries tab, scrolling down to wininet.dll showed (builtin) so I changed it to (native, builtin) and clicked OK to save.

Initially, when starting PaltalkScene, the list of rooms displayed much more quickly and ads started to show up in the bottom panel (wo-hoo). However, I still couldn't enter a room. Then later on when attempting the view the list of rooms again, I had the same problem where the list of rooms, didn't show up right away.

When reviewing the run log from executing via Run Command, the following errors can be found:

err:statusbar:StatusWindowProc unknown msg 2210 wp=e8010001 lp=0001002a
err:tooltips:TOOLTIPS_WindowProc unknown msg 204e wp=00010096 lp=0034e01c
err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"C:\\Program Files\\Paltalk Messenger\\paltalk.exe" failed with error 1813
err:ole:get_inproc_class_object DllGetClassObject returned error 0x8007000e
err:ole:create_server class {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {9ba05972-f6a8-11cf-a442-00a0c90a8f39} could be created for context 0x17
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {50d5107a-d278-4871-8989-f4ceaaf59cfc} not registered

The following "fixme" messages exist I guess implying parts of the Windows API's that haven't been written or that are otherwise incomplete:

fixme:advapi:EnumServicesStatusA 0x3bb8b40 type=30 state=1 0x66937244 240 0x66937488 0x66937490 0x66937484
fixme:hook:IsWinEventHookInstalled (32773)-stub!
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsA (0x34a038,0x349f14,0x349f0c),stub!
fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsA RAS support is not implemented! Configure program to use LAN connection/winsock instead!
fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsW (0x18b080,0x66826498,0x70279524),stub!
fixme:ras:RasEnumConnectionsW RAS support is not implemented! Configure program to use LAN connection/winsock instead!
fixme:ras:RasEnumEntriesW (0x0,(null),0x3bd2e78,0x66826160,0x3bd2b64),stub!
fixme:seh:_abnormal_termination (void)stub
fixme:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Parent is HWND_MESSAGE

-Bill