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Crash under Vista with Ave's Vista Stuff

Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 6:09 pm
by robc
Following XnTriq advice here http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=62695#62695 I installed the HTML Explorer Thumbnails http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/htmlpreviews.html.

Now whenever I browse to a folder containing HTML files with XnView, as soon as it tries to render the file XnView crashes. Going into debug the VS 2005 SP1 debugger only reports a buffer overrun in XnView and the call stack shows a call to Ave's shell extension... it looks like XnView is correctly trying to render the file like it does on XP, calling the OS but now it finds this extension instead of XP's shdocvw and crashes.

I need either to unregister Ave's DLL or uncheck "show as thumbnail" for HTML, HTML and MHT files in XnView. It seems the extension works, Pierre, if you could just make XnView interface with it we could have HTMLK thumbnails under Vista also. But I'm afraid you cannot do any testing under XP, you need Vista since I don't think the extension is going to work under XP.

Re: Crash under Vista with Ave's Vista Stuff

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:25 am
by xnview
Ok, i'll check

Re: Crash under Vista with Ave's Vista Stuff

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:43 pm
by xnview
The registering of the DLL doesn't work on Vista for me :-(

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:14 pm
by robc
Don't use the .bat file, simply open a command prompt, go to the folder where the DLL is and type

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regsvr32 HTMLPreviewShellExt.dll
It didn't work for me either... I don't know why he wrote the batch file in that way when it would have been enough to write the above line in the .bat :?

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:58 am
by xnview
robc wrote:

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regsvr32 HTMLPreviewShellExt.dll
Yes, i've tried that, but have an error??? :-(

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:52 am
by robc
You should do that as an administrator... open a command prompt with "run as administrator", for me it works fine.

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:54 am
by xnview
Ok, i have the crash. But it's very strange, i've made full update of Vista, and now no more crash!!

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:20 pm
by robc
xnview wrote:Ok, i have the crash. But it's very strange, i've made full update of Vista, and now no more crash!!
What do you mean by "full update"? Mine IS fully updated and I still get the crash.

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:30 pm
by xnview
Sorry, i have the crash again :-( But i don't understand why. It seems that the dll corrupt memory. I'll contact the author...

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:40 am
by robc
Any news on this, Pierre?

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:11 am
by xnview
robc wrote:Any news on this, Pierre?
The author must send me source code