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Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hey guys, sorry for the late reply, been away for quite a while. Still kinda busy atm with uni and stuff, but I'll see if I can update this soon.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Aah, thank you Ryan. The term did tickle my memory, but it's been several months since I worked with this stuff. Dependency Walker tells me that there is a CreateUri function in urlmon.dll (and from that I imagine that whatever RunDLL is trying to call in InetCpl.cpl is probably there too). So, it's...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Since this hasn't been mentioned yet, trying to call 'CreateUr i ' in urlmon.dll looks like a typo to me.. surely it should be 'CreateUr l '? Perhaps you can hex-edit the offending file, though I have no idea whether or not this would be stored with some kind of encoding. Edit: or uh, edit the offen...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yep, currently working on it :) But, i'll have to do lots of tests again :? Looking forward to it. For some reason, IE8 fails to install on my (heavily nLited) laptop; I've previously had succes installing IE7 directly by modifying the inf in your pack, which works quite well despite not being supp...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

If you do still want WMP10 despite it being outdated and forcing you to reinstall some hotfixes, but simply can't find it anywhere, I still have 3.1a lying around (a friend of mine absolutely loathes WMP11. I agree with him, but then I don't really use any version of WMP)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

New version has been delayed by atleast a day. Mrs Peel asked me about a problem with one of her addons that she couldn't solve, and unfortunately it turned out to be a bitch to solve (long story short, it can't be done just using an inf file, so I had to add a cmd file) and had me busy all day. Hav...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Strings sections are good - we all know this: they can save a lot of clutter and clarify things like GUIDs. However, unfortunately many manufacturers use them far too much, which can make the inf very hard to read, and a terrible pain to simplify. For this reason, starting from the next version, whi...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Well, as it happens string::npos, which is what the second argument of string::find_last_not_of() defaults to and makes it check from the end of the string, is equal to -1 by definition. So in the edge case that = is the first character on the line, it'll check the whole line. And since in this case...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I'm bored, so here's a sneak peak of code for a filter I'm working on: if((B = S->substr(0,S->find_last_not_of(" \t",A-1)+1)).size() > A) continue; B = B.substr(B.find_first_not_of(" \t")); Here, S is a line in an inf file and A is the first position of an unquoted assignment character on that line....

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Looks cool, thanks for the addon

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yeah, it installs 3 before 2 and 1 to get around a bug in the installation routine. This is also why RogueSpear's installers use a two-step solution (one from SVCPack and one from RunOnceEx): installing 1 and 2 before 3 without rebooting in between locks up setup.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, sounds like an interesting program, thanks. I tested it in IE7 and although the button appears on the toolbar, clicking on it has no effect. Then I rebooted

..and it works fine. Cheers, luv.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Of course, you can easily rename the section that Optional Components points to to DefaultInstall, although that's hardly guaranteed to work right.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I've seen the + and - syntax used before, as well as bitmasks (flags!)

The reason I'd use either is because I intend to allow one to store the default configuration in a .cfg file, so the switches will be relative to that (the bitmask one won't be though, for obvious reasons)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Talk about jumping in the deep end. Okay kids, don't expect to see Win32 API stuff anytime soon, as I'll have to research transacted IO and security descriptors and write some sort of lib so I can use it without losing it. (but what do you care, it's not like you'll notice a difference from the way ...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

hehe, sure is. I've still got some big plans for this, although I dunno how many I'll be able to realise. I really ought to write a proper FileHandler class based on Win32 API calls, as well. (and add Unicode support) Hmm, I was wondering, are there any other things I could do to inf files to make t...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Updated to 0.30b to fix the crashing bug I mentioned earlier. To anyone interested: check out the source, I made a lot of changes in order to make this program fully modular. Adding configuration support should be a simple thing, now.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yeah, that's just some protection I built in. 'course it'll all be rewritten when I add config support.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Aah, I see. Should've checked the ini.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Nice to see you added the i386 temp folder thing (combined with your other tweak, of course). It's great if an addon just works when you right click Install it. By the way, why is Copy.SSL only run from DefaultInstall? If it wasn't for this and your personal settings, you could technically add the a...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Update: I found an ANSI inf file that won't convert (It's very likely crashing one of the stages in Simplifinf). Rather than figuring out what's going wrong, however, I'm going to focus on splitting the various things the first pass does into multiple passes. This is the only sane way I can add conf...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Read RyanVM's reply, nonno fabio

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hehe, cool then.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, I might've overlooked that, sorry. Caps thing was a pain to fix, could you give me an example of a commandline that will produce the bug?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Updated to 0.30a to fix tab handling.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Well, as you may realise this is taking up a lot of my time ;) It's okay, because I'm learning a lot about the Win32 API, which I'll need for an important project.. but right now that does mean I have to look into how to create, open, read and write files just using that. Because it's working stably...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Updated to v0.30! Check it out, Mrs Peel, now stuff ligns up again

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, that's a Unicode encoded text file, rick, no support for those yet (it says in the first post

). I don't know if there are any special characters in there (didn't see any) but you can try saving it as an ANSI file - it'll work fine then.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Updated! ^_^

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Oh yeah, actually knew about that one but I forgot. Thanks for the refresher course

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yeah, MIGDB.INF converts perfectly for me, it's an ANSI file. Also a good example of why this is useful! Talk about inconsistent spacing, sheesh. My second pass (that I haven't written yet, hehe) should do wonders for the placement, too. The corruption you saw was almost certainly due to my heavy us...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Well, we're not talking typos here, we're talking total corruption. Some garbage latin alphabet letters followed by some, I dunno, Chinese or something, followed by.. well, you get the idea. I should be able to work something out when I start using Win32 API functions for reading in the files.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

can you add a console >out file support for this so it runs in batch script as well and without leaving any traces Simplifinf HIVESYS.INF newfile\HIVESYS.INF Hmm, the following should work after I fix the uppercase extension issue: Simplifinf HIVESYS.INF which will create a file called HIVESYS new....

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, odd. Could you try the following version? Only difference is it isn't UPXed.

Link: here
MD5: 210E533DDE96E609FA0077EDE3C58E76

Mitsuko Aninikkou

What happens when you try it, rick? Does it create an empty file, garbled output, or does it do nothing at all?

Edit: good find, I completely forgot about that case. It should still work if you tell it to continue anyway, the file extension detection is simple but pretty robust.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

v0.21 posted. It should be more stable now. I'm going to work on stability even more as I start on the next phase, which will add a second pass to lign stuff up.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yep, I didn't realise this at first but looking at your pendmove utility gave me the idea to do it this way

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, that's a rather odd bug. Tell me - if you run it again on the same original file, do you get the same output? I had some odd corruption show up earlier that I think might be due to MinGW's file operations being utterly unstable, because it went away when I tried again. As for your idea of remov...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Thanks arco, and yeah, it got pretty late last night. Finding how to do the drag and drop thing was frustrating at first, then fun as it turned out to be so simple. Anyway, check out the new release :) To Kel: this release fixes the problem you reported. However I'm currently not detecting the Infot...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I'm working on a new version as we speak; unfortunately it's producing garbled output at the moment so I'll have to do some debugging, but otherwise I'm much happier with the code now, so expect to see a new version sometime tonight.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I'll post a fixed version as soon as I can, Kel. Unfortunately due to the way this utility currently works, it's hard to maintain code sanity. I'm considering rewriting it in some clearer way, only I'm not sure how yet. Fixing this situation shouldn't be too hard though.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hehehehe, I can't believe how simple that turned out to be. Your cries have been heard, Mrs Peel, this utility now has drag and drop support. Of course I don't know how Sendto addons work so let me know if that needs anything else. Edit: whoops, in my excitement I forgot about directories that -don'...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll see what I can do.

But me, an inf magician? *giggle* Thanks for the compliment!

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Drag'n'drop functionality.. hmm, I'd probably have to use windows functions to make that work, unless dropping a file onto it is like adding the file as a switch, which should be reasonably easy to add with code65536's tools as examples

And uh, glad you find it useful!

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I doubt it. It simply makes inf files more readable, which can be a blessing when you're working with them. For me, this allows me to easily remove all the stuff that I don't need from driver infs (which often include code for lots of other devices). This, in turn, may slightly speed up your install...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I'm not going to do a proper release post for this little utility, but let me explain my reasoning behind creating it. Today, I once again found myself going through a driver inf removing (to me) useless commentary, redundant spaces and newlines, and adding some consistency for spaces before and aft...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

A full shell replacement seems excessive to me. I don't see any reason why such a program couldn't be installed using an inf installer, but I don't know what form it would take.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Without looking into it, I'll say one solution would be a kernel hook (I guess.. right term?) that intercepts CreateWindow and CreateWindowEx messages when a process is created, and changes them to open windows away from the taskbar, or to specific locations if it's a process you specified to open a...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Code65536's addon

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that line is the ocgen entry that was erronously present in RogueSpear's Direct Update Addon V1.0.4 and was removed in V1.0.5. So to answer your question (if I'm right), it should be removed entirely. If I'm wrong, then %addonsinf% should be changed to match the n...

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