I have inherited a install shield project that was using 2010. I upgraded to 2012 IS professional.
I also downloaded the skin customization kit which encounters the following problem. I am trying to use this customization kit to generate new skin file as
CreateSkinFile.exe C:\MySkinFilesSrc C:\CustomizedSkins\setup.isn
It opens and closes immediately. There is no scope of reading the error that it displayed as it opens a new window and closes in a sub-second. There is no log, no trace on what exactly it is complaining.
Is there any way to trouble shoot this and see what the problem is? The ini file is in order per the customization kit guidelines.
btw: I wanted to make sure that I am doing the right thing. I took one of their clown examples and tried to generate a skin using it. That also fails in a similar way. Added to that I used the skin customization kit to extract and used the same exacted ones to make a skin and that fails too.
Here is what i have found and i hope it helps others.
The kit is written very poorely, as it does not have any verbose or proper error reporting. It opens and closes so fast a human cannot read. Having said that i found that:
The kit that the account representative gave me is for 2012 Spring. Once i rectified that, the problem remains.
The root cause is that, one of images in the skin file does not exist. I have number of images, and i was not careful to look at every one of them. Once i went through and made sure every image is present in the directory, the CreateSkinFile went ahead and generated the ISN file successfully.
Hope it helps some one else.
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I deleted part of my code, and accidentally saved.
I tried looking at my history and my source explorer, but those were both greyed out.
Help?
Thanks
I'm not sure if you can pull your deleted code out of the void, but you should look into version control software, like Git, to keep a lock on each version of your programs. I know it doesn't solve your problem now, but it will help a ton in the future if you make changes often!
Go to "Edit" → "Undo" to undo recent changes.
Or, go into your version control system's log and revert to an older committed version.
Or, restore from one of your off-site backups.
The most important was already said. However, here some relevant complements:
The Edit -> Undo (or Ctrl+Z) has to be done file by file if you have several files in your project.
The Undo works after a Save, provided that you've set the focus in the editor's window (and not the solution explorer's). However, once you've left Visual Studio, it's lost forever!
The AutoRecover setting in the Environment section of the Option dialog box ensures that a copy of your unsaved work is saved every couple of minutes and keep it a couple of days (in your document folder under Visual Studio 20xx\Backup Files...). Unfortunately, it is designed to protect you against a crash; so the files are removed when you save, and it won't help you (I mention it only in case you were aware of the backup files and hoped to get a solution with it).
If you're working with windows 10 and have activated the file history backup you may luckily look at older versions in the explorer. This will not help if you have done changes and deleted them without a backup in-between (e.g within one hour at least).
You may not like this suggestion because the VS IDE is very comfortable, once you're used to it. But some programming editors allow you to set the configuration to make a backup of the files before you save them (e.g. such as for example emacs or atom). The purpose is exactly to prevent the kind of problems that you've just mentioned.
The best approach to avoid loosing previous work is of course the source code version control, with the corresponding discipline. It's easy to setup: a right-click on your solution in the solution explorer to activate this feature on your project, then at each significant change, again a right-click on the solution to commit the changes. With git, you don't even need to create a central repository if you're working alone on smaller projects. The local repository is sufficient to archive the successive versions of your code and find them back. But again, it's no magic: if you've made a lot of changes and didn't commit them, it won't retrieve them...
I've replaced my old dev laptop with a new one, and my Siebel 7.8 Tools aren't enjoying the change: the applet web layout editor gets frozen when I try to scroll.
The applet loads fine, I can add controls, move them around or remove them... but if I try to scroll, it only does so for a moment and then it gets frozen: everything inside the web layout pane (including the scrollbars) stops responding. I've also noticed a visual glitch when it happens - half of the "InfoButton" placeholder and half of the "Elemento" field are duplicated:
The rest of the Siebel Tools keep working however, I can just close the layout editor and open a new one, which will work without problem... until I try to scroll again.
It happens also if I try to show a bigger applet area without using the scrollbar (for example, if I hide the object explorer with Ctrl+E to have more room), or if I click on Preview. Only in that case, instead of a glitched layout, it shows all blank (and freezes).
It doesn't matter if it's a list applet or a form one; whether I'm connected to my local DBF database or to the server repository; if I run the Siebel Tools with or without administrative privileges...
To make things even weirder, the first time I edited an applet web layout in the new computer, it worked fine (a lot of scrolling included). The issue started with the second applet I tried to edit (but now it happens with the good applet too).
The new computer is running Windows 7 (64bits) with IE8. The old computer had exactly the same, only the 32bits version. Siebel Tools have been properly installed (I didn't just transfer my old folder to the new PC). And I've checked the tools.cfg file, specifically the WebClientSiteDir property, which points to the right folder, C:\Siebel_7.8\Tools\PUBLIC\ENU.
Any ideas, other than reinstall the Tools? Has it happened to anyone before?
Solved! I tried a lot of different things, including a full reinstall of Siebel Tools. In the end, it was much easier to fix: I just needed to enable the option "Run this program in Windows XP compatibility mode", in the Tools shortcut.
I'd swear I didn't have it enabled in my previous computer and it worked just fine, but anyway... that fixed the issue for me.
i work on a Windows CE 6.0 Image and added a Audio driver to my Solution (my solution is based on a image without audio). Sound works fine but i dont know how i can add the standard Windows CE 6.0 Sound Settings dialog to the control panel.
MSDN says the following:
"The Windows CE Control Panel allows users to set a variety of system-wide properties, such as mouse sensitivity, network setup, and the desktop color scheme. You can select specific functionality to include in your Control Panel by specifying them in your Cesysgen.bat file."
Can anyone explain how this works exactly via Cesysgen.bat? In my project i cant find any entry for cplmain in my Cesysgen.bat.
Could it be that those standard Applets are integrated into the control panel automatically? (maybe with "getProcAddress()" when a specific driver is loaded?) - This idea comes from "cplmain.def", there is written:
EXPORTS
CPlApplet
; These functions are exported for componentization
; We use GetProcAddress on ourselves to dynamically discover
; what components we have
I found a quite good explanation from Andrew Pearson here:
http://www.itlisting.org/4-windows-ce-embedded/a57eef4103191b7a.aspx
but i tried a few different things an nothing worked! So this confuses me even more. The only statement there i really understand now is:
The control panel, unfortunately, is about the single most confusing thing
to build in the whole tree.
Yes it is! Would be nice if anyone had an idea.
Kind regards,
Martin
I've created custom control panel applets before, and to be honest, trying to modify the existing applet is about the worst thing you can try. Generally what I do is just create a whole new applet, which is really just a DLL renamed to have a .cpl extension and that exports the CPlApplet entry point.
There's an example in MSDN that shows the expected values the OS will pass in to get your icon, tell you to start and those types of things.
Basically just build your own applet as a completely separate project, then include it in the MODULES section of your BIB file. Don't even mess with the existing train wreck of control panel code.
I'm a little bit reluctant as to ask question, as it was asked already here, but the problem is, it wasn't answered sufficiently enough, so I'm forced to ask it second time.
So, just as previously mentioned asker I'm trying to create new project in Microsoft Visual 2010. And instead of showing normal window, it prompts me to save .html file, as shown in picture below.
Saving it and that opening it results in the following window:
though it does nothing - just page with no influence over the project at all.
Notably, this happens not only for Win32 application, but for MFC applications too.
As for the cause of this I don't know of it. As you can see from first screenshot, I was doing Web applications before hand, but I didn't change any of preferences at all (though, my guess is that it's somehow connected).
As for solving this issue, I tried uninstalling IE8, as stated in previous topic, but that didn't help. Also, I tried doing Tools -> Import & Export Settings -> Reset, but it didn't help either.
Please, if someone know solution for this, tell me - I'm out of my wits with this problem.
This problem is occurred because some Visual studio setting is corrupted.
I'd like to recommend to reset settings like following
start > Run> devenv.exe /resetsettings
Unfortunately, many parts of this case related to disturbing or collisions among files. In my experience, some programmes, which were installed recently, might cause this concern.
I'd like to recommend to install all service packs and update patches for VS 2010 and then try it again. If it doesn't fixed, reinstalling VS will be a relevant solution for saving your time and conserving your passion.
I do write lots of image processing code with lots of different images involved on unmanaged C++ under Visual Studio 2010. I want to be able to watch them almost as easily, as a simple identifier while step-by-step debugging.
My current solution is to use some function which exports image in Matlab console. It is ok, but requires modification to source code, while I want to do it just while debugging. So the best option is just image popping up while hovering containing variable by mouse. But writing some command ExportToMatlab(image) in Command Window is enough. I don't know how to do even this, however.
There is the very similar question "Debugging image rendering in Visual C++, any helpful add-ins?", but it is too old and I found no acceptable answers in that discussion. Some tools are .NET-based (see image below), some requires additional code to be written (that's what I currently am using), and some projects are frozen or unfinished.
I can spend some time on implementing appropriate solution, so links to some good guides on how to customize debugger visualizer in VS are welcome too.
Update
I've created a Visual Studio extension based on Expression Evaluator Add-In. It is available to download from its SourceForge project page, called NativeViewer. Check for description on how to use it.
I can't actually believe that nobody suggested Image Watch yet. It's the most amazing add-in ever. It shows you a view with all your Mat variables (images (gray and color), matrices) while debugging, there's useful stuff like zooming or contrast-stretching and you can even apply more complex functions directly in the plugin in real-time. It makes debugging of any kind of image operations a breeze and it's immensely helpful if you do calculations and linear algebra stuff with your cv::Mat matrices.
Just for history: I've implemented my own solution based on Expression Evaluator Add-In. It doesn't fit well enough, but I was able to implement all what I needed.
Update
I've created a publicly available Visual Studio extension. It is available to download from its SourceForge project page, called NativeViewer. Check for description on how to use it.