RPManager for Deadline 6.0?

Deadline
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Anyone know if Grant updated it?

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Grant helped us unify the code of SMTD and RPM, so now the same set of files is being used.
For anyone interested, the installation steps are here:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … ript_Setup

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I just installed Deadline 6 and the RPManager submission script across the machines in the studio and everything went smoothly with no problems, but I have come across one minor annoyance with regard to the SMTD script.
We’re running Max 2012 and ever since setting up the SMTD RPM script, whenever I open Max the SMTD dialog pops up. It also pops open on render slaves when network renders start up.

I had a quick investigation into the issue, but I couldn’t find anything out of place in the startup scripts folder so it must be getting called from another script (probably RPManager) on Max startup…

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rob

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This rings a bell.

I think the problem is that there is a Startup script responsible for pre-loading the SMTD scripts, and you still have the older version of it.
If you have NOT launched SMTD 6.0 on a machine, but the SMTD 5.x startup script is still there and you run RPM once, the new versions of the UI and Functions scripts will be copied over, but the OLD startup script will fileIn() them. We made a change in the main UI script to not be a MacroScript anymore to allow both RPM and SMTD to use the same UI definition. The combination of the old startup loader and the new code causes the UI to pop up instead of just initializing a Macro to run later.

Your options are to either install the new SMTD 6.0 script and launch it once to update the scripts, or simply delete the statup script by running

deleteFile (GetDir #userStartupScripts + "\\SMTD_Loader.ms")

Hope this helps!

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Thanks Bobo, deleting the startup script did the trick.