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Resource and Icon Editor Utility for Projectors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:04:44 GMT

There have been a lot of problems with the D11 icon. Apparently, developers have been reporting issues with icon in Hot Fix 3 even though these issues were supposed to have been fixed... but they didn't address or fix other issues that were brought to their attention by myself. Anyways, I had created a utility as a hack-ish fix that could replace the default icon in the .skl file used in publishing a projector... I have since finished developing a utility that will work on a projector. It allows a developer to:

1. Change the Version information in the resource:
a) Fixed FileVersion and ProductVersion information
b) String Version Information:
- Company Name
- Product Name
- Product Version
- Internal Name
- Legal Copyright
- Legal Trademarks
- Original Filename
- File Description
- File Version

2. Add a custom icon, including a proper Vista icon in the icon resource.

This file can be downloaded here:
http://collab.directorforum.com/Resource_and_Icon_Editor

*Note: do not add a custom icon during the publishing process if you're going to use the utility to add your custom icon properly (yes, D11 does mess up your custom icon during publishing).

You can send me an email if you're having problems or have a good/bad comment about the utility: jchunick [at] gmail [dot] com

Josh Chunick

Detect Internet Connection Script

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:32:21 GMT

I've been building a parent script 'component' for a trial version app I'm creating for Director developers. The internet connection parent script gives developers a true status of the internet connection using netlingo and setting up a callback handler to handle the asynchronous netlingo calls. If anyone would like to test it out, it can be downloaded here:
http://www.easy-share.com/1905325182/detect_internet_connection2.zip

Sorry about the free file upload link - I let my domain lapse and one of these days I have purchase it back again.
Anyways, let me know if anything is unclear; I heavily commented the parent script to help explain things... as well, if there are any suggestions for additions of methods, etc. then I would be happy to hear from you.

Thanks,
Josh

Post Count not Displaying Correctly

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:23:07 GMT

My post count was somewhere over 2000+ posts before the forum change and now it's 1/10th of that at 289... another poster, I see, has over 200,000 which seems rather skewed. If the web developers who did the change can verify the post counts with a simple query of the actual records based off my user account then they'll see the actual record count doesn't match the number showing up for me under a post.

Resource and Icon Editor Utility for Projectors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:04:07 GMT

RE: stevenLandau's PM and my IconResource Utility

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:13:17 GMT

Steven,

You're profile does not allow PMs, apparently (funny that this forum would still allow you to send PMs to others... oh well). So, to answer your question, the error you are getting suggests that something is messed up as the Xtras folder in the root directory of the IconResource app should contain the Shell Xtra - but doesn't in your current situation. You can download the zipped file again from here:
http://www.chunick.com/director/IconResource.zip

For others wanting to know what the IconResource Utility is - apparently D11 publishing options do not properly save an icon file into the resource of the .exe so I created this utility which must be used on the Projec32.skl file to save your icon to it before publishing (which means DON'T use the icon option in the publishing utility at all). It's a bit of a crappy workaround because I'm just creating a front end interface for a command line utility that someone else created which only deals with resource files, so if you try using it on your published .exe it will strip out the resource, discard all the other packed data in the PE and leave you with essentially the .skl file and your brand new icon... however, if you are used to using the projec32.skl file as a stub, an .ini file to launch your .dir or protected .dxr then you're pretty well set with the IconResource utility.