Hi, gigaherz. I've read in your post that you started to work on DDE implementation. There are two windows shell replacment projects (open source, under GPL) that already contain DDE server: LiteStep (http://www.lsdev.org/) and Emerge Desktop (http://www.emergedesktop.org/). As far as I know ED is ...

There is a whole extra section showing in the picture above. I that that was only visible when you right-click an item. I thought it didn't not go on the file menu. I was thinking maybe you need to add flags to make that disappear from the file menu or something. However, on Windows 7, that section...

erkinalp wrote:Moving context menu completely out of the file menu would solve that and also the File menu reinitialisation problem outright.

Huh? that makes no sense. There is no reinitialization problem, it's just how it works. It's supposed to be that way.

If you had read the report, I explain that the items in the file menu come straight from the context menu, and that's wrong. We don't yet have the necessary code to build the "partial" menu the way Windows does it, so I went for the next best thing, which is to use the full context menu, i...

Please, before anyone wastes any more time. Let's think this through. I'm not giving any opinion on what would be best for the project, simply asking: Can any of you write such a compiler? Do any of you have the time, knowledge and resources to write such compiler? If the answer is yes, if you feel ...

I forgot to tell you ppl. Last monday when I was cooking, my left hand was splashed by hot oil, and I got second degree burns. It's not too serious, but it prevented me from doing any useful work. I'm hoping to start doing things over this week, and hopefully I can be fully back on track by next mon...

It has been explained multiple times in multiple blog threads already: the goal is to recreate the original windows shell components, so that 3rdparty programs using those interfaces can work at all. We already have a working non-comformant shell, but the team wants "the real thing", which...

BigChimp wrote:Nice to see progress, gigaherz - not just because it's progress but more importantly because trying to fix bugs for hours or days and not succeeding can be intensely frustrating

Keep up the good work!

Thanks! And yes, it is.

Always impressed by the ability of proper programmers to understand the intricacies of convoluted Windows o/s level progamming,even if not the Windows core it all seems unnecessarily complicated. Kudos to you for being able to do it. Thanks! I like to think I have a talent for understanding how thi...

If I recall correctly the folders are defined in the registry, so it's theoretically possible to rename/relocate them. Problem is for many of the folders, you can't do that while programs are running inside them. Yes that is true. And sloppy coders might hard code them and then cannot find the cust...

If I recall correctly the folders are defined in the registry, so it's theoretically possible to rename/relocate them. Problem is for many of the folders, you can't do that while programs are running inside them.

People, as I will explain tomorrow when I write this week's report (and sorry about missing it last weekend), and as you may have already read in the collaborative TODO list I made, I already found a way to debug the leak by using our shell32.dll in windows, loaded manually by our filebrowser.exe. I...

Ahh... Dr Memory. I may have to check it again. I tried that one first, but I had issues getting it to work...

What about this :arrow: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff560206(v=vs.85).aspx :?: Uhm, the title clearly says "memory leaks" ;P Sorry, I did spend some hours looking, so I have probably seen all the best options already. If you want to surprise me, you'd have to ...

:idea: Perhaps this may be helpful: :arrow: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/junfeng/archive/2008/04/21/use-htrace-to-debug-handle-leak.aspx Maybe? Sadly, no ;P That's Kernel handles, as in, the ones exposed by kernel32.dll The ones I need to fix are USER handles, exposed by user32.dll There's also GDI hand...