IrfanPaint - Early Betas

[Leif]

Do you have any "strange" configuration on your PC? Vista-transformation packs, keyloggers, applications that use dll injection, ...

Nothing strange, vanilla installation
No Vista-transformation
No keyloggers
dll injection?? Haven't the faintest idea. What's that?
But I try out lots of different programs. And I mean lots...

[MItaly]

I really have no idea... it's a very strange behavior, to solve the problem I'd have to come to your home with the sources and the debugger.

[Leif]

Beer or wine?

[MItaly]

Beer
No, seriously, maybe I can send you a dll with some debugging messages to understand what's wrong...

[ChuckE]

But I try out lots of different programs. And I mean lots...

Perhaps that's a clue. A possible conflict with who-knows-what, the combinations are enormous.

Not that explains the reason for the conflict, but just another possibility of why this could be so hard to diagnose, duplicate, or troubleshoot.

[Leif]

Beer
No, seriously, maybe I can send you a dll with some debugging messages to understand what's wrong...

Yeah, perhaps I'm not the only one with this problem.

[MItaly]

Try this nightly build (it requires the same exe version of the b0.4.5.46): open the plugin, choose the clone tool, put the focus on the IV window and do the following:

1. move the mouse on the image area of the window. Then make sure that the mouse is absolutely immobile and hold CTRL: does the (/) sign becomes a vertical arrow?
2. move the mouse wheel: does any prompt appear?
3. mouse the mouse wheel holding shift: does any prompt appear? What it (or they) state?
4. idem, holding ctrl+shift.

Thank you for the collaboration!

[matera]

The cursor changed all right.

Wheel brought up a message: WM_MOUSEWHEEL

Shift+wheel got me WM_MOUSEWHEEL followed by: WM_MOUSEWHEEL + MK_SHIFT

Ctrl+Shift+wheel --- WM_MOUSEWHEEL followed by: WM_MOUSEWHEEL + MK_SHIFT | MK_CONTROL

whee

[Sam_Zen]

ChuckE is right about the difficulty of diagnosis when other parties are active as well.
To decrease this range of alien elements, it's a matter of disabling as much applications in the taskbar as possible, to be able to test something properly.

[matera]

Okay, the weird parts. The cursor got funny, reluctant to change. I changed tools a couple of times to shake it loose. Then the wrong cursor appeared after a while, the cross instead of the (\). Then the applied clone strokes started to appear only after I released the mouse button. THEN all my other windows refused to un-minimize until I closed IrfanView and Alt-Tabbed. Bit scary for a minute . This is not necessarily any cause for major worry, it could be an effect of my alternative shell, Wez's Evil Shell. Now and then there are some slight irritations, from wdmenu32.dll mostly.

[Leif]

Try this nightly build (it requires the same exe version of the b0.4.5.46): open the plugin, choose the clone tool, put the focus on the IV window and do the following:

1. move the mouse on the image area of the window. Then make sure that the mouse is absolutely immobile and hold CTRL: does the (/) sign becomes a vertical arrow?
2. move the mouse wheel: does any prompt appear?
3. mouse the mouse wheel holding shift: does any prompt appear? What it (or they) state?
4. idem, holding ctrl+shift.

Thank you for the collaboration!

1. / sign?? I'm not sure I understand. Nothing happens when I hold Ctrl.
2. WM_MOUSEWHEEL
3. WM_MOUSEWHEEL
4. WM_MOUSEWHEEL

[MItaly]

The cursor changed all right.
[...]whee

Ok, it's the correct behavior.

Okay, the weird parts.[...]

OMG, what a mess! Are you sure you're using the last dll and the last exe?

1. / sign?? I'm not sure I understand. Nothing happens when I hold Ctrl.

Sorry, I expressed myself badly. I meant the cursor becoming a vertical arrow. Anyway the other answers made me understand where the problem should be. I'll let you know.

[matera]

My files were still warm from the oven - so to speak. As I said, my shell can make things ticklish. Also had some hours of working uptime and something crashed not long before the test run, so the system was far from fresh. I tried it a little today after a reboot, in an admin account with normal Explorer shell, and no other windows open. Again, the cursor was sometimes reluctant to change (and I don't think it's my dirty keyboard, because I have no problems with Ctrl otherwise) and sometimes it was the wrong cursor again.

I forgot to mention that when the Ctrl+mousewheel message is clicked off, the next image in the directory is loaded.

[Sjef]

IrfanPaint

Here is the update of my Irfan plugin web page for Dutch users of IrfanPaint...

[MItaly]

Again, the cursor was sometimes reluctant to change (and I don't think it's my dirty keyboard, because I have no problems with Ctrl otherwise) and sometimes it was the wrong cursor again.

This with the nightly build or with the latest "official" beta?

I forgot to mention that when the Ctrl+mousewheel message is clicked off, the next image in the directory is loaded.

This is quite normal. These messages are just for debugging purposes, and may cause weird things. Anyway, that nightly build was intended only to test some things on Leif's PC: other users should not use it.

@sjef: Good work!