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11th May 2015, 16:03 | #3241 | Link |
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Actually I did it that way at first, but that totally destroyed keyboard navigation in the tree. The latter is a complaint that has been raised against the old GUI as well; therefore I decided not to auto-set the focus.
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Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. I'll do something about that, but not right now (let's say within two releases).
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Supporting XP in that instance would mean using a different registry querying function. RegQueryValueEx, as the answers on SO point to, but I doubt the actual parameters taken by RegQueryValueEx vs. RegGetValue are the same, so it'd require special-casing to support both (or simply an option to disable registry support at configure time so it doesn't build that part at all - which might make some degree of sense for portable builds, regardless of any OS version squabbling). I haven't tried doing this in several years, but Wine could be used to patch over XP itself to avert this. Wine can run 7.9.0 seemingly without problems*, since it implements support for higher versions of the Windows program APIs (if the OS itself was stable enough, it'd probably work swimmingly in ReactOS as it has a symbiotic relationship with Wine for program support while currently targeting NT kernel version 5.2). You just have to cross-compile Wine's DLLs under MinGW-w64 so that it routes the calls into win32. It could probably also be done under MSys2 or Cygwin. *obviously, I'd normally just use the native build instead if I'm logged in under Ubuntu, but not everyone wants to switch their XP machines to Linux. I had to resort to doing this in 2011 for a game that kept crashing using the Microsoft DirectX runtime. After I got Wine's d3dx9_43.dll built I dropped it into the game's directory, and everything was peachy. Since Windows prioritizes DLLs in a program's home directory, it'll use those before it tries the ones from the system. So if a cross-compiled copy of Wine's ADVAPI32.dll were in there, it'd more than likely work as-is without specific XP support. Provided that ADVAPI32.dll itself doesn't require more of the Wine DLL ecosystem. EDIT: after testing a cross-compiled Wine (1.7.42-137-g6d323d8), that trick won't work atm. Windows is either smart enough to not load *those* particular .dlls from the application directory, or we're going to need a much more complete WineOnWindows environment (read: wine.exe itself, which the limited cross-compiling support in Wine can't do yet) to be able to do anything regarding that. But really, going to that much trouble generally isn't worth it when you can run an up-to-date version of [insert Linux distro name here] on the same machine and use the native build of MKVToolNix just fine. For ancient setups like mine, that's pretty much the only thing you can do short of just staying back at 7.8.0. The jury's still out on ReactOS since right now I don't have access to the VM I normally use, but ROS is still not anywhere close to stable for daily use. Last edited by qyot27; 12th May 2015 at 20:58. |
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I'm not insisting on anything, but I'd like a warning if a new version won't run on a particular flavour of Windows so I know not to upgrade, find it won't run, post in the mkvtoolnix forum about the problem thinking I'm contributing to bug fixing in a small way, only to be told to &%$ off and upgrade Windows. Quote:
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I'll possibly upgrade to Win7 initially because I have a legit copy that was given to me that's never been used and there's no XP drivers for the MB I want. I've not looked closely at Win10 yet. Last edited by hello_hello; 11th May 2015 at 22:35. |
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I also think, XP is over, also because M$ offered Win 8 licenses for only 30 € for a while.
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I won't add such buttons as you can re-order tracks & files via drag & drop.
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Could you please update your website and also mention that version 7.8.0 is the last one which works under XP... @ qyot27 Thanks a lot for testing it with a cross-compiled Wine DLL. I also extracted the ADVAPI32.dll from the latest ReactOS and copied it into the MKVToolnix root folder, but no luck... Cheers manolito |
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manolito: good point. Done.
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*the installer fails; use the 7z package or extract the binaries from the installer with 7zip |
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The situation is even more complicated than I thought...
after hexediting mkvmerge.exe for calling advapi48.dll, and after placing the Vista advapi32.dll in the same folder as mkvmerge, and after renaming the DLL accordingly, I got a different error message Code:
The procedure entry point EtwNotificationUnregister could not be located in the dynamic link library ntdll.dll UPDATE: After editing three more DLLs — kernel32, ntdll and rpcrt4 — , now the result is: "the application failed to initialize properly (0xc00000fd)" so there is no workaround, someone would have to fix the source-code itself. Last edited by filler56789; 14th May 2015 at 16:08. |
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Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for software pirates, too. It looks like Microsoft want to move everyone to Win10 one way or another. No doubt so they can fleece everybody hard eventually, but in the meantime it's changed my thinking a bit. I might become a temporary software pirate and upgrade every PC here that can run it to Win10. Unless I can find a way to go straight from XP to 10 without a lot of unnecessary messing around in between, but I'm downloading a preview of Win10 now to take it for a test drive. It looks like I might be (mostly) saying goodbye to XP after-all. Now if only software authors would continue to support XP till the next (hopefully) usable version of Windows arrives. |
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Again, folks, this is not a thread about Windows. Please stay at least somewhat on topic. Thanks.
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