World: r3wp

I'll put it on my to-do list. I'm caught up up through 1993 now. 


The biggest pain with reshacker is version info. I couldn't get it 
to work with version resources as quickly as I wanted so I cheated 
and pump keystrokes to it.

I have a quick and dirty project generator that spits out the basics 
for simple REBOL projects. I'm not sure it's worth publishing, but 
I'm happy to pass it on to anyone who wants to review and comment.

Gregg: you might also achieve it by bypassing reshack for setting 
version info, wrapping BeginUpdateResource(), UpdateResource(), EndUpdateResource() 
from Windows API (feeding it with GetVersionInfo( ) buffer I guess?).

Gregg, your work is always appreciated. And yes, I spent a few hours 
with version info myself the last time I had the great idea to change 
that. Which just reminded me that I wonder if I bothered to write 
down what did work... Oh, the insanity, oh the inanity.

Doc, yeah, I've thought about looking at the APIs as well. Somehow 
I just kept hoping RT would make it automatic for us. :-\ Reshacker 
is really great, but far too old to be using like this today. 

James, I'll zap you what I have to review.

That's true - I feel like we're little kids trying to do big boy's 
work (MS). :-) Of course if it gets the job done...

I've got some info on using ResHacker here: http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/cookbook.html#section-2.3

Thanks Ashley. That was the info I used a few weeks back to get out 
of jam.

It would be nice if the sdk encapper didn't overwrite the alternate 
stream when writing out the binary.

Anyone having issues with win 7, 64 bit running enacapped programs?

I haven't run a lot of them, but the main things I've hit were permission 
related.

I'm not doing thj etesting but I'm sure my brother tried to run it 
in compatibilty mode with admin rights. He can see it running in 
processes but the window does not open.

Does 2.7.7 fix some probs with win 7. I know they worked on install 
issues with vista and win7 but perhaps other win7 stuff was worked 
on. I'm not using the updated sdk but I will get the update if it 
fixes these issues.

My stuff uses 2.7.6.

Is it a View window or the console that doesn't open?

view window

I've had the no window opening problem before... on xp.

win 7 64 bit

works fine in viista and xp

Just tested a couple here, and they worked fine. Is it a normal PC, 
or could there be some odd video driver issue going on?

I had a report from a user that it did not work on his sys (do not 
know his sys) so I asked my brother to try it. He is using a laptop.

I do not know if anyone else has tried it on win7...any version

If you are bored and have the time to test it i'd appreciate it. 
Here is the link to the program: http://firecaptainnyc.com//clientfiles/captain.exe

Doing anything funky? Standard VID only?

When it first runs (if) it will download some support files and a 
large database (100megs).

I have some "patches"  in there but nothing too crazy.

gots to run...back in an hour

So I have to DL 100MB before I can test it?

If the program runs it will ask you if you want to download it. It 
will quit if you say no but that will atleast tell me that its running 
on your system...If you get any window to open that is further than 
its getting on thses two systems.

Amacleod: Win7-32bits here, requester window for downloading the 
DB shows up. Seems to run ok.

Btw, I'm running my current Win-7 session with admin rights.

Thanks doc...it might be only 64 bits thats an issue? Have you tested 
encapped cheyenne exe's on 64 bit or know of anyone that has?

Never tested on 64-bits.

Maybe Graham has done some testing on 64-bits.

I've not had any issues with 64 bit windows except for accessing 
obdc

Works on Win7-x64 for me Alan.

I think that I've had this issue even in xp when I was starting the 
application using "capture output" of my text editor or something 
like that. 

so that the window app hangs while its trying to connect to the console 
ports.


IIRC you can setup a CALL command in REBOL which ends up doing the 
same thing though I don't remember how.

Thanks Gregg...Now what! 


I'll have to get my hands on a win 7 machine and play with it I guess...

just thought I'd share my positive experience with a little app I 
just downloaded which *finally* makes creating icons for rebol easy 
and free:


the editing is simple, but its batch mode is really fast and it works 
very well!   just select one file, select all the resolutions you 
need (check out the rebol icon first) and go.

in 2 seconds you have an icon for use by rebol!

I checked a few sites and they all claim it to be free of malware 

http://icofx.ro/

I've used IcoFX for quite a while. It works well for my simple needs.

Does it support batchmode?

Well, it does... just reading the web-site helps.

When I change an icon of an encapped EXE using the latest SDK, the 
EXE no longer works. I get an "not enough memory" error. Any idea?

and it doesn't happen with sdk 2.7.6 ?

Yes, it worked with the older SDKs (at least that's the only change 
I can recognize). The .res and .ico files are all the same.

Can someone try to change an icon with ICOFX in an encapped EXE based 
on SDK 2.7.7? Maybe I'm doing something wrong here.

not enough memory

 ... that's happened in the past for me after icon sizes and color 
 depth values have changed. You may have to recreate the icon set.

Ok, thanks for the tip.

with icofx, extract the rebol icon, and look at all its sizes/color 
depths.    then open batchmode, import the image you want to use, 
tick only those which are in the rebol icon, press OK.

and use the result icon in reshacker  with:

call rejoin ["reshacker  -addoverwrite " exe-path "," exe-path "," 
icon-path ",ICONGROUP,REBOL,1033"]

paths, being absolute and in os-local form