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Thank You Chris Wohlgemuth!!!

Started by DavidG, 2008.02.04, 04:27:20

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RobertM

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


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Saijin_Naib

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.

DavidG

You are trying to open your Thunderbird for Firefox folder. DId you replace the OS/2 bitmaps with PNG icons?

Saijin_Naib

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.

RobertM

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


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Saijin_Naib

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?

RobertM

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...

  • Go to the folder using PMView's "File->Open" menu choice.
  • Then, select all files
  • Right click and select "Icon Thumbnail" and then "Delete" (ON THE ICON THUMBNAIL FLYOUT!!! Not the choice above "Icon Thumbnail" - unless you want to delete the actual files)
  • When it is done removing the thumbnails, select "Icon Thumbnail" again, and "Create" on the submenu
  • When it is complete, close PMView and try opening the folder again.

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



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Saijin_Naib

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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.