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New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:38:40 GMT

Found the "bug" I used hacked resource and now that I opened the orginal I had the same resources in all the apps. The hacked one is from win7 rtm just can't remember with what it is hacked.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:01:23 GMT

Assuming you're being 100% accurate in what you're writing, this is very strange. Can you show me a screencast or something?

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:57:47 GMT

Yes still shows even if i copy explorer.exe to different place. I just finished with vs 2010 beta and it shows same resources as anolis. So it seems there is a problem with vs 2008.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:09:23 GMT

So you're saying, if you copy C:\windows\explorer.exe elsewhere to your HDD, then open that in VS, the dialogs and string tables still show?

I made a commit to the TFS earlier this week which is now buildable. You should be able to build Resourcer from source without any problems.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:01:19 GMT

I tryed that and could not repro it. One think that I did notice is that vs cannot save the explorer.exe. Anolis cannot also if I don't build it from the source. Now I'm curious what vs2010 beta shows. I will test it later today. Overall I think that you are right and vs should not show those.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:23:06 GMT

I believe I've solved the problem:

In Windows Vista the resource model was changed so resources located in "MUI Files" (located in a subdirectory of the original EXE named "en-US" or "de-de") would be listed and loaded alongside resources located in the specified EXE file when requested. Visual Studio uses the Windows resource API for working with resources, which is why the additional resources (dialogs, string tables, etc) are being listed despite not actually being in explorer.exe.

See if you can repro this: copy explorer.exe to somewhere else on your HDD (outside of the %Windir% directory) and then re-open it in VS: you'll see those "missing" resources are no-longer listed.

Resourcer can also use the Win32 API for working with resources (in fact, it does so right now, until I finish my own PE/COFF classes) because it does so in a way which is "MUI Aware" so these 'missing' resources won't be loaded/

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:50:59 GMT

Doesn't matter. The result is same for both. I send an email for you so you can dl. both C:\windows\explorer.exe, and C:\windows\syswow64\explorer.exe.

http://www.msfn.org/board/windows-7-files-t134827.html <- Someone other asking the same.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:01:14 GMT

Still no repro at my end. Can you send me your explorer.exe file?

Is this on x64 or x86? If this is x64 can you confirm which version of explorer you're editing (C:\windows\explorer.exe (x64), or C:\windows\syswow64\explorer.exe (x86)). Thanks

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:14:57 GMT

side by side image:

http://rapidshare.com/files/296055430/anolis_vs2k8.png

side by side dialod resources in visual studio 2k8:

http://rapidshare.com/files/296055587/anolis_vs2k8_2.png

You can see that vs shows gialog, menu etc. resources and anolis does not

EDIT: I have meda following: Disabled UAC and system restore. I also changed the file properties. Instead of the default trusted installer. Now I'm the owner of the file I also checked that I have full access to the file. After that I have copyed the file to another location. Thought I can see the deifference in the resources even if I do not copy it to some other place.

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:41:37 GMT

I fired up Windows 7 RTM and did some inspection. I cannot reproduce your issue: when I open Windows 7 x64's explorer.exe from within Visual Studio 2008 it gives the exact same resources list: there's only Bitmaps, Icons, MUIs, RT_MANIFEST, and VS_VERSONINFO.

Can you send me a screenshot or anything?

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

BlackDogSpark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:35 GMT

Just wondering when we might get better functionality in win 7? I ask this because when I open examp. explorer.exe I do not see accelerator, dialog, menu or string table resources.

but when I open it in vs2008 I can see those. So far VS is the only thing that shows all.

New Post: Save as...

W3bbo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:46:52 GMT

Implementing Save As is a non-trivial operation, but I believe it can be done. I do plan to get it done before the 1.0 release.

In the meanwhile, you'll see there's a "Backup Source" option which makes a copy of the file for you.

New Post: Save as...

DMD61 — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:14:59 GMT

you can enter this command?

In fact, what is my overwrites the existing file.

Thanks

New Post: Request for .res file support in command-line

windowsx — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:46:00 GMT

I want to use it like this

Resourcer.exe -op:add/upd -src:srcfile.exe -file:icon.res

You may put "type" and "name" after file for better parsing.

New Post: Missing: ProcessComplete and ProcessTotal from W3b.TarLzma.ProgressEventArgs

W3bbo — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:45:19 GMT

The W3b.TarLzma library is only included as a binary since its source-code is unrelated to Anolis. However it seems I haven't commited the latest version of the W3b.TarLzma library that contains the recent changes I made to how progress is reported.

I won't be able to upload a fix for another week. Sorry.

New Post: Missing: ProcessComplete and ProcessTotal from W3b.TarLzma.ProgressEventArgs

BlackDogSpark — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:13:16 GMT

How to fix this? I did not see any source for the W3b.TarLzma in the source code.

New Post: Command line interface?

W3bbo — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:35:15 GMT

Thanks for the feedback, I've investigated.

Turns out the spaces are removed by the program when it displays the error message, ignore what I said about that.

The problem is because of the way double-quote " characters are interpreted when processing command-line arguments, and the program is also displaying the wrong error message.

Anyway, the problem is you're trying to alter resource "0" rather than resource 0 (one is a string ID, the other is an integer ID) however my software interprets your "0" as 0 and not the string 0. It should display an error message saying that the resource 0 wasn't found, but it shows the syntax error message instead.

I'm working on fixing it, I'll release an update later today.

New Post: Command line interface?

Drag0nR3b0rn — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:45:09 GMT

"I know - I followed your instructions in the post above & in the text file that came with the program file in the archive.

But yet I get the aforementioned error. The screenshot was taken after trying to run the following command: "Resourcer.exe -op:upd -src:"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.dll" -type:ICONGROUP -name:"0" -file:"Res\7z.ico"" from the windows command prompt.

It may be relevant to note that I'm using Window 7 RC x64.

New Post: Command line interface?

W3bbo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:25:07 GMT

You need to enclose all paths in quotation marks, and you're missing out spaces between arguments.

New Post: Command line interface?

Drag0nR3b0rn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:28:17 GMT

I'm also getting an error like rakudrama when trying to use resourcer from the command line - while seemingly the command is right.

I'm using the latest build available for download here.

If this helps here is a screenshot of the problem: http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x34/Drag0nR3b0rn/anolis-resourcer-cmd-error.png