When initially opened in Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, the
project was updated to use the v140_xp toolset. When the program
was run under WinXP it complained about a missing runtime DLL. When
the DLL was provided, it complained about another one (with a
slightly strange name). So I reverted the tools to v120_xp, i.e.
Visual Studio 2013. (I don't know if this works because the tools
are included with VS2015, or because I have VS2013 installed and it
managed to find them.)
Whatever the case, it now builds for me with either IDE, and seems
to work fine on Windows XP, but I'd like to figure out why the XP
build isn't working with the v140_xp tools.
The previous version was written to work on Win98+, and used the
rather gnarly ShellTree class. Since we no longer support Win98,
we can now use CShellManager::BrowseForFolder(), which does exactly
what we want without all the ugly code (and it looks nicer, and it
integrates better with the rest of the system).
We can also get rid of NewFolderDialog, which only existed to allow
the user to create a folder when trudging through ShellTree.
This required "upgrading" the main app object from CWinApp to
CWinAppEx, but that appears to be benign. Tested on WinXP and it
all seems fine.
This handles version 1 and 2, and copes with the broken files
created by the Mac OS X "applesingle" command-line tool (which is
unable to decode the broken files it creates).
I get the sense that many AppleSingle files don't end with ".AS", so
the filespec includes "*.*" as well.
Some AppleSingle files don't include a filename. In that case, we
use the file's name as the entry name, minus any ".as" extension.
The current implementation doesn't convert from Unicode to Mac OS
Roman, so non-ASCII characters are mishandled unless the file was
generated by GS/ShrinkIt. (We assume version 1 AppleSingle files
use MOR name strings.)
Also, version bump to 4.0.0d3.
This changes the Platform Toolset configuration from "Visual Studio
2013 (v120)" to "Visual Studio 2013 - Windows XP (v120_xp)". Without
this change, executables built by VS2013 will not run on WinXP.
To actually run on WinXP, we also need to install the redistributable
msvcr120.dll and mfc120u.dll, both of which are fairly large. The
installation package has more than doubled in size.
At some point we may want to drop WinXP support -- Microsoft declared
end-of-life on April 8 2014 -- but if the only penalty is a 2MB increase
in installer size, we might as well keep supporting WinXP users.
The original version of CiderPress used a WinHelp help file, built
with an application called HelpMatic Pro. This app used a proprietary
format, and had no facility for exporting to "raw" HPJ + RTF files, so
I decompiled the HLP and imported it into HelpScribble.
Using HelpScribble, I cleaned up the help file formatting a little,
fixed up the table of contents, and exported as "raw" HtmlHelp (HHP,
HHK, HHC, and a whole bunch of HTML). I also split the pop-up help
text, which isn't supported by HelpScribble, into a separate text file
that Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop understands.
I'm checking in the files that HTML Help Workshop needs to generate a
CHM, so anyone can update the help text. I'm also checking in the CHM
file, rather than adding the help workshop to the build, so that it's
not necessary to download and configure the help workshop to build
CiderPress.
This change adds all of the updated help, but only updates the Help and
question mark button actions for one specific dialog. A subsequent
change will update the rest of the dialogs.
This change is essentially upgrading us from a totally obsolete help
system to a nearly-obsolete help system, but the systems are similar
enough to make this a useful half-step on the way to something else.
The code will centralize help activation in a pair of functions in the
main app class, so any future improvements should be more limited in
scope.
This also adds a build step to copy the CHM to the execution directory.
Focusing on the diskimg library this time, which deals with a lot of
filesystem structures that have specific widths.
This is still a bit lax in places, e.g. using "long" for lengths.
Should either specify a bit width or use di_off_t.
Also, added "override" keyword where appropriate.
Also, bumped library version to 5.0.0.
There's probably some value in using the "secure" versions of the
various string functions, but I don't want to deal with it right
now. We won't use them for the stuff that builds under Linux
anyway (diskimg, nufxlib).
This largely eliminates warnings from VC++.
CiderPress and MDC now compile, and execute far enough to open
their respective "about" boxes, but I doubt they'll do much
more than that.
* Switch from MBCS to UNICODE APIs
Microsoft switched to UTF-16 (by way of UCS-2) a long time ago,
and the support for MBCS seems to be getting phased out. So it's
time to switch to wide strings.
This is a bit awkward for CiderPress because it works with disk
and file archives with 8-bit filenames, and I want NufxLib and
DiskImgLib to continue to work on Linux (which has largely taken
the UTF-8 approach to Unicode). The libraries will continue to
work with 8-bit filenames, with CiderPress/MDC doing the
conversion at the appropriate point.
There were a couple of places where strings from a structure
handed back by one of the libraries were used directly in the UI,
or vice-versa, which is a problem because we have nowhere to
store the result of the conversion. These currently have fixed
place-holder "xyzzy" strings.
All UI strings are now wide.
Various format strings now use "%ls" and "%hs" to explicitly
specify wide and narrow. This doesn't play well with gcc, so
only the Windows-specific parts use those.
* Various updates to vcxproj files
The project-file conversion had some cruft that is now largely
gone. The build now has a common output directory for the EXEs
and libraries, avoiding the old post-build copy steps.
* Added zlib 1.2.8 and nufxlib 2.2.2 source snapshots
The old "prebuilts" directory is now gone. The libraries are now
built as part of building the apps.
I added a minimal set of files for zlib, and a full set for nufxlib.
The Linux-specific nufxlib goodies are included for the benefit of
the Linux utilities, which are currently broken (don't build).
* Replace symbols used for include guards
Symbols with a leading "__" are reserved.
This updates the project files for Visual Studio 2013, and removes
the old Visual Studio 6 (1998) project files. The update tool had
a number of complaints (see UpgradeLog.htm) that may need to be
addressed.
Also, replaced .cvsignore with .gitignore.
Visual Studio reports 1886 build errors, nearly all of them due to
the switch from MBCS to Unicode. The former is no longer
supported "out of the box", and its use is discouraged, so we're
going to bite the bullet and use wide characters in the UI.
