Posted At: Friday, January 14, 2000 9:44 AM
Posted To: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Conversation: 50003 'unexpected Error'
Subject: 50003 'unexpected Error'

I wrote a program (Icon Editor) und published it in Internet (free of
charge). Some days ago I got two bug-reports about 50003 'unexpected
Error'.
I can't debug it because it works fine on my computer. I know that many
users can run my program. What does this error mean???

Thanks for any Help
Igor

P.S. you can download Icon Editor at
http://home.debitel.net/user/leonidp/ipl/ie/icon_editor.htm

>I had the same problem with my application. There is also an article in
>MS's knowledge base whose exact address unfortunately I can't remember.

>Below I copy a passage from my program's FAQ.

>>Runtime error 50003 is an undocumented Windows error which - according to
>Microsoft - >occurs when more than one or different versions of the same
>*.dll or
>>*.ocx are present on a system. In FlightSim Planner this error is caused
>only by >comct232.ocx which is responsible for the spin buttons in various
>windows.
>>Therefore you should first check for multiple instances of comct232.ocx on
>your system. >Delete (or rename) all comct232.ocx files that are NOT
>located in the
>>windows/system directory so that there is a single comct232.ocx in
>windows/system. If the >error still occurs, copy comct232.ocx into the main
>/FSP directory. In all
>>cases reported this has solved the problem.

>Good luck

>Sascha