I installed the X5 suite and updates, set up my macros, and everything was working fine. When I restarted Coreldraw, all my macros were disabled????? I uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled, and the same thing happened again. Everything works fine in X4.
I am getting SO frustrated.
My OS is Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1
Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
Do you have all of the patches for Vista, installed, (I see that you have Vista's SP1, but anything later?) especially the patches for Visual Studio run times? IIRC, either Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 had a patch that was important.
Also, do you have SP3 for the CGS X5 installed?
I have SP3 for CGS X5 installed. I am not sure what patches have actually been installed for Vista / Visual Studio. Unfortunately my work computer is not kept updated like my home computer is. I use Win7 at home and I have no problem with X5 and macros.
I understand that the Visual Studio patches could make a difference, but isn't it strange that the macros work just fine until after Coreldraw is "restarted" the first time after it has been installed, and that macros are not disabled in X4?
Hi.
Uncheck the Delay load VBA checkbox in Tools > Options ...VBA
See if that makes any difference.
Also...
Make sure you are logged on as the correct user or Admin.
Check permissions on gms folder you are using to store macros.
~John
Everything checks out except the Delay load VBA checkbox in Tools>Options is grayed out .
I will have the computer updated and see if that makes a difference.
Is there that big a difference between X5 and X4 that allows X4 to work and not X5?
Hmmm...do you even have VBA installed? This is selected upon the installation options.
Yes, it has been installed. A fresh installation of X5 will work just fine with macros until the first time it is closed and restarted. Then macros are disabled.
The computer in question is being updated and will have Vista SP2 tomorrow so I will see what happens then.
My computer is all up to date now. I have found what the problem is. I am running into trouble when I try to import my workspace from X4 . It will work just fine the first time I import it but then coreldraw disables all macros/vba options after the program is closed and reopened. It won't even enable it by going back to the original default X5 workspace until I switch to it and reopen the program.
Is there a way to get this working so I don't have to go through all the trouble of setting up my workspace again?
Doesn't that figure. Okay then back to the drawing board. Thanks for everyone's help.
Hello,
I see this wast last posted in Jun 2011.
Here it is a year later, and I am having this issue, with the Macros not available shortly after re-installing corel draw x5, it works great, then something happens and they are not available anymore, I do not have the time to re-install every day, and set up my work space.
Has there been a fix this problem?
Sincerely,
Sheri
Seven years later, and I am having the same issue in X7. No solution in sight. I've been Googling for hours. I can't afford to install/re-install this often.