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New Post: Why can't the twunk_16.exe PE header be parsed?

miesch1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:58:14 GMT

Hi again guys,

This question is intended for the coordinator of this project. Before I found this project, I was exercising my code trying to find an assembly with string version data rather than binary version in the PE header data (see my previous post). I ran across the twunk_16.exe file in the Windows XP directory that I could not parse, even though Windows Explorer correctly lists the version information. I was losing confidence in my implementation, so I started looking for other C# implementations online.

Then I came across your project. After downloading the source, I was surprised that in your Anolis.Tools.PEInfo.Program file, you had commented out the regular go path and had inserted what appears to be test code pointing to your own file called "twunk_16.exe". So both of us are interested in that file! That file will not load in any of your formats (DOS, NE, COFF/PE) either. Have you figured out what kind of a file it is and why it is not adhering to these formats? Thanks again for the awesome library!

-Mike

New Post: Is it necessary to look at VersionItem.Type before marshalling VS_FIXEDFILEINFO?

miesch1 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:39:44 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm sad that there hasn't been much activity here recently! This is an awesome project--keep it up!

I have been scouring the web trying to find any implementations of reading a file's version out of its PE header. Everyone "cheats" and uses Win32 calls to pull this resource out. The first example I found that did what I was looking for was here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12396665/c-library-to-read-exe-version-from-linux

Unfortunately, it is not strongly typed and it is in C++. But it was enough to get me started porting it to C#. Of course AFTER I had a working implementation, I ran across this project which does the exact thing I am looking for. As I was investigating your implementation of populating the version information struct (VersionResourceData.RecurseItem), I noticed that the VersionItem.Type is not used to determine if the version resource contains text or binary data, as described in the documentation for the VS_VERSIONINFO.wType:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms647001(v=vs.85).aspx

The C++ code I started with did branch on this property, but I can't figure out if that is necessary or not. Does anyone know the answer to this? Thanks guys!

-Mike

New Post: DLL files are not unloaded in Batch Export

W3bbo — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:36:51 GMT

Okay, I've fixed this in my local source code collection. I'll make a commit later this week as well as a new binary release.

New Post: DLL files are not unloaded in Batch Export

W3bbo — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:13:02 GMT

Hey there,

Thanks for the update, I'll add it to the list of fixes in the next release (when I get round to it, heh).

New Post: DLL files are not unloaded in Batch Export

antiufo — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:37:36 GMT

The method Anolis.Resourcer.CommandLine.BatchProcess.ProcessFile() does not call Dispose() on ResourceSource source, and after processing many files, LoadLibraryEx starts to throw Win32 errors "Not enough storage is available to process this command", and many resources are not extracted.

I found this bug because I wanted to export all the graphical resources of the Windows directory, but most resources were missing.

I added source.Dispose() at the end of ProcessFile() and now it works correctly.

New Post: Import DIALOG, TEXTFILE and others resource type...

W3bbo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:15:10 GMT

No, that won't work. Reshacker-style names are only supported for the types I explicitly listed above.

Also, Anolis doesn't support transplanting resources from one ResourceSource to another (i.e. you cannot extract from an RC and place into an EXE in a single go).

You must extract the raw bytes of the string table resource first and put them into a separate file.

<res type="StringTable" name="1" lang="1033" src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\1-1033.strings" />

New Post: Import DIALOG, TEXTFILE and others resource type...

vigo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:11:46 GMT

so if I want to import a STRING TABLE, I have to type:

<res type="string" name="1" lang="1033" src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\1-1033.rc" />

New Post: Import DIALOG, TEXTFILE and others resource type...

vigo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:49:58 GMT

thanks. I didn't know it matches ResHacker-style name.

New Post: Import DIALOG, TEXTFILE and others resource type...

W3bbo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:07:01 GMT

In your package's XML file just specify the type:

For example, this is from xpize:

         <patch path="%windir%\system32\sysdm.cpl">
                <res type="bitmap" name="1"   src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\1.bmp" />
                <res type="icon"   name="1"   src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\1.ico" />
                <res type="icon"   name="3"   src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\3.ico" />
                
                <res type="dialog" name="112" lang="1033" src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\112-1033.dialog" />
                <res type="dialog" name="112" lang="1046" src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\112-2070.dialog" />
                <res type="dialog" name="112" lang="2070" src="Base\Windows\system32\sysdm.cpl\112-2070.dialog" />
            </patch>

Here is how the type="" attribute is interpreted:

If it's an integer number, it's assumed to be the numeric representation of a Win32 ResourceType (e.g. Accelerator is 9, Version is 16, and so on). These numbers can start with 0x to unambiguously represent a number in hexadecimal base.

If it's an exact match to the Win32 resource type names then that's used.

If it matches a ResHacker-style name (one of: "ICON", "ICONDIR", "ICONGROUP", "CURSOR", "CURSORDIR", "CURSORGROUP", "BMP") then these map to IconDirectory, CursorDirectory, and Bitmap respectively.

Finally, if it doesn't match anything it's assumed to be a string resource type identifier.

If you start the identifier with the " character (you'll have to encode it using " then it will always interpret it as a string identifier even if it matches a Win32 resource type name.

HTH.

New Post: Import DIALOG, TEXTFILE and others resource type...

vigo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:23:53 GMT

HI, first I have to say that I'm new to this . How can I import DIALOG, TEXTFILE, AVI .... by using Anolis Packager ? Looklike only BITMAP, ICONGROUP could be imported.

New Post: Windows problem

Pammachio — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:53:41 GMT

I all,
I have a problem on my Windows Vista that began afetr the purchase of an external Hard Disk Freecom.
A few days afetr the purchase I disconnected it while it was writing and, since that moment, every time I connect and disconnect it, the PC go to freeze mode for 5 minutes.
The same thing happen even if the hard disk is disconnected: every time I start windows it go to freeze a little after the password, and every time I connect and disconnect a usb device.
I have looked for the solution everywhere, updated windows, unistalled and installed the hard disk from the device manager but I solved the problem only when I restored a recent backup.
Yesterday the Hard disk was writing a backup while Vista was installing the updates; at the end of the proceure windows restarted automatically and the problem began again!!!
The Pc go to freeze when it starts, every time I connect or disconnect the hard disk, an usb earphone that has always worked switch on but there is no audio and I don't know how many others usb devices will have problems.
Has anyone an idea to solve this problem before I throw out of the window Vista or the the hard disk?
Thank you

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New Post: Current Progress

W3bbo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:43:08 GMT

I've fired up the source on my desktop and working on it again.

Here are the changes I've made so far:

Added a Find / Find Next feature (someone requested this, but I don't know where). It can search both resource names and resource content (using UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding) with match-case as an option.
Added a "Next" button, which jumps to the next resource in the tree (which is useful for casual browsing)
I've created some better 32x32 icons for String Tables and Version resources, no more pixel-doubling
I've got a friend working on an improved image viewer that should display centered and oversized images correctly

I'm aware of Resourcer's toolbar ugliness on Windows 7, so I'll add an option to change the appearance to something less horrible.

Besides the bugs and feature requests already reported, does anyone have any suggestions?

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

W3bbo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:36:51 GMT

It's a feature that's forthcoming in a future version, you'll notice Resourcer is still marked as being pre-1.0.

I personally use Visual Studio's dialog editor, but ResHacker and XNResourceEditor have them too.

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

tuxplorer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:18:21 GMT

I was not aware of that. Dialog editing should be a fundamental ability. What other resource editors (commercial or free) support dialog editing?

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

W3bbo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:16:13 GMT

Non-localisable (aka "Language Neutral" or LN) resources go in the original *.exe, cpl, or DLL file, it's only string tables, menus, and dialogs that go in the MUI.

Resourcer doesn't support editing dialog resources, just vieing them (and looking at their control tree) so I assume you're using a different program to edit the dialog itself?

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

tuxplorer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:39:42 GMT

Windows 7 32-bit. Opening Timedate.cpl.mui file in %windir%\system32\en-us\. I want to add a bitmap resource to the Time Zone dialog.

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

W3bbo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:51:42 GMT

I'm afraid I'll need more information.

Which OS? Where was the MUI file located? etc etc.

New Post: Resources not showing in MUI files for CPLs

tuxplorer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:24:50 GMT

I can't view the resources in Control Panel MUI files. e.g. timedate.cpl.mui

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

KoRnKloWn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:44:58 GMT

I do like the Windows 7 Start button, but I enjoy customizing things on my computer, just kind of a hobby I guess. But anyways, I know you probably would anyways, but if you can post an announcement on this discussion when you have a more 64bit compatible version, that would be awesome, then it would notify us by email (assuming everyone checked the email box at the bottom).

New Post: Windows 7 RTM x64 compatibility

W3bbo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:07:19 GMT

I'm aware of this issue, but I'm unsure as to why it's happening. Little dirty secret: Anolis' resource replacement library is a wrapper for the Win32 resource modification functions. In future I want to write my own PE format editor, which should probably fix everything up.

I'm told this isn't an issue on the 32-bit editions of Windows 7.

Because I'm using the Microsoft resource APIs built-in to Windows (and because Resourcer runs as an x64 application where possible) I believe the problem might be that Explorer refuses to run after breaking some kind of internal consistency check or something. So I'll want to see it working after it's been modified by another non-Win32 API based x64-compatible resource editor first before I decide my code is at fault.

I might have some time over Christmas to fix it. Until then I guess you're SoL. And hey, I think the Windows 7 start button is pretty enough as it is :)