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OS/2 - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 04:27:20

Title: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 04:27:20
I want to give Chris a big thank you for his marvelous program WPS Wizard!!!  Without this program, there would be no nice schemes.  Chris, don't give up on us.  We do appreciate your great program.

Next, I have totally revised my Snowish Kde blue theme.  It has been total redone even though I gave it a version number of 2.1.  All the remaining Snowish themes will follow this pattern.

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/snowish-kde-blue-example.png

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-icons-snowish-kde-blue-v2_1.zip

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 04:41:08
Very nice sir :)
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 05:04:27
Version 2.0 of the Snowish Kde grey theme has been uploaded to Netlabs Incoming.

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/snowish-kde-grey-example.png

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-icons-snowish-kde-grey-v2_0.zip

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 06:28:06
Version 2 of the Snowish Kde Orange theme has been uploaded to Netlabs Incoming.

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/snowish-kde-orange-example.png

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-icons-snowish-kde-orange-v2_0.zip

David

Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 06:51:11
Snowish KDE Yellow version 2 has been uploaded to Netlabs Incoming.

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/snowish-kde-yellow-example.png

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-icons-snowish-kde-yellow-v2_0.zip

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 07:03:23
Snowish KDE Green version 2 has been uploaded to Netlabs Incoming.

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/snowish-kde-green-example.png

ftp://www.ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-icons-snowish-kde-green-v2_0.zip

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 07:42:25
Aight, so tried the KDE-SNOWISH-GREY with WPS_wizard. It was good, then I got the green themes and went to view the folder with the .png icons. Something happened and the WPS crashed. Upon trying to reload it goes "PMBIDI.DLL" -> ModuleNotLoaded, and thats the end of that, I can do nothing. In any case, it would appear that only so many .png can be viewed at once or something. Also, long filenames dont get the cool transparent selection thing behind the whole text. David's icon naming schema is a good example of this behavior as the zip files will NOT have the blue selection box behind the whole text.

In any case, good job so far :)
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 08:12:08
What were you viewing the PNG with?  I use PMView.

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 08:18:11
Nono, my firefox, thunderbird, etc had no WPS-WIZ icons, so I was going to open the app icon folder to root through and see if I could apply it manually. That was the kiss of death, the above error occured. I havnt tried to fix it yet, I am back in Xp working on my visual style :P
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 09:04:38
You were either trying to add or change an icon in from the program's icon editor.

If the folder had no icon, it is best to use an ini editor to copy and rename application with the necessary required fields.

CairoCommands
Image
Overlay

Once done, you can edit the application name and change the location and name of the icon you want to insert.

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 09:11:26
? Im talking about my program objects for Firefox and Thunderbird & SeaMonkey that are on my desktop. As I just posted in the newsgroup, I was just using the WPS to open the folder containing the icon .pngs when the WPS crashed out.
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 09:15:32
I can't say what happened.  I can't produce this.

David
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 09:17:46
Well, its been noted that my machine is apparently unique when it comes to eCS so Im just gonna go ahead and say its my fault. Whatever, I'll reinstall later in the week when I have time.
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.04, 11:23:42
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 07:42:25
Aight, so tried the KDE-SNOWISH-GREY with WPS_wizard. It was good, then I got the green themes and went to view the folder with the .png icons. Something happened and the WPS crashed. Upon trying to reload it goes "PMBIDI.DLL" -> ModuleNotLoaded, and thats the end of that, I can do nothing. In any case, it would appear that only so many .png can be viewed at once or something. Also, long filenames dont get the cool transparent selection thing behind the whole text. David's icon naming schema is a good example of this behavior as the zip files will NOT have the blue selection box behind the whole text.

In any case, good job so far :)

This dll is found in your OS2\dll directory.  You might try booting to your recovery menu and selecting boot to command prompt.  Then

cd os2\dll

See if the dll is still there.

If not, see if there is a Found.000 directory on your drive which contains the dll.  If so, copy it back to your os2\dll directory, exit, and reboot.
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 15:27:02
Awesome, thanks. What is this dll if you know?
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: RobertM on 2008.02.04, 21:25:03
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.04, 15:27:02
Awesome, thanks. What is this dll if you know?

BiDirectional language support... used by various other shell components if memory serves. There are pages in Russian that go into more detail, but I cant read Russian... :(

-Rob
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 00:15:18
Ah, well, it exists on my HDD, it didnt go anywhere. A reboot got me back to the WPS and functional, until I decided to see what happened if I opened that folder with all the png icons again. Same crash symptom, same error message. Presently back in XP again. Whatever is wrong with my system and WPS-WIZ, its consistent.
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: DavidG on 2008.02.05, 03:06:39
You are trying to open your Thunderbird for Firefox folder. DId you replace the OS/2 bitmaps with PNG icons?
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 04:28:57
O_o

Nono, Im afraid I am not being clear. I am trying to open the folder that contains all the icons for the KDE-SNOWISH-GREY to take a look at the icons because my firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey program objects on the desktop are not using PNG icons, just normal OS/2 ones.

However, when I open that folder, the WPS will crash out and give me the error I described.
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: RobertM on 2008.02.05, 04:49:07
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 04:28:57
O_o

Nono, Im afraid I am not being clear. I am trying to open the folder that contains all the icons for the KDE-SNOWISH-GREY to take a look at the icons because my firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey program objects on the desktop are not using PNG icons, just normal OS/2 ones.

However, when I open that folder, the WPS will crash out and give me the error I described.

I think that issue may be unrelated to any WPS enhancers (see "a"). I have seen that happen when I open a folder with either (a) corrupted icon data, or (b) a file that the WPS thinks it can iconify (and it turns out it cant).

(b) is due to something (I dont know which WPS enhancement - or if it's the WPS itself) that tries to iconify something it cant (file format isnt what it expected, etc).

The quantity of iconified objects seems irrelevant. And on those occassions, opening the folder in "Details View" oddly doesnt seem to cause the WPS crash (while "Icon View" does).

Hopefully that will help someone track down the issue and/or cause.

-Robert
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 04:59:52
hmm. Well, its only in a very specific instance, and that is when I open a folder containing a large quantity of PNG files that are to be used as icons. Every iconset for WPS-WIZ i extract causes the same behavior when i attempt to view the folder's contents. This behavior was not present before the installation of WPS-WIZ, and I know correlation does not equal causation, but I am going to go ahead and say this is some issue regarding WPS-WIZ and the png icons. Alright, so.. Well, if this enhancement is meant to make PNGs icons, why should it be unstable when viewing the PNG icons themselves?
Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: RobertM on 2008.02.05, 05:16:17
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 04:59:52
hmm. Well, its only in a very specific instance, and that is when I open a folder containing a large quantity of PNG files that are to be used as icons. Every iconset for WPS-WIZ i extract causes the same behavior when i attempt to view the folder's contents. This behavior was not present before the installation of WPS-WIZ, and I know correlation does not equal causation, but I am going to go ahead and say this is some issue regarding WPS-WIZ and the png icons. Alright, so.. Well, if this enhancement is meant to make PNGs icons, why should it be unstable when viewing the PNG icons themselves?

Try using PMView...

Dunno if it will help, but *I THINK* it will prevent any WPS Enhancer from trying to iconify the PNG files (as the icons are already generated in a format that OS/2 understands).

-Robert

Title: Re: Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.05, 05:27:45
I dont have PMView, I suppose I can get the trial and give it a shot later. Im in windows till later because I have to do my physics work and I need flash for that.

Edit: Okay, seems to be a conflict somewhere with an IOPROC or something. If I attempt to take a screencap, the WPS will quit out and give the PMBIDI error. If the offending BMP is not deleted from the command line the computer can not boot to the WPS. I am unsure what to do at this point, I am not opening any images anymore until this gets settled. The hard-boots are not comfortable.

Also, the desktop properties tab shows 3 instances of 3 images only, nothing more.
Also, a WPS reset (like after Checkini/Cleanini) will cause the PMBIDI error as well.

Alright, it was any image format that would cause the lock-up. I uninstalled it, every class de-registered without issue and everything is back to normal now. Now, I just have to figure out where the conflict lay.