Windows 7 Gif Viewer Works perfectly

If you know what you'redoing, you can disable UAC. To uninstall, just run the installer again and it should ask you to uninstal it.

I havn't been able to make windows give me a UAC warning, so I havn't come up with a way to fix it :/

Hey, I went to the goofwear.com/windows/, but when I click the download links, I get this error:

Error in downloadcountfile on line 3.
./downloads/Windows 7 Gif Viewer.exe is already defined.

What does this mean? :/

I just say my youtube comment about the error I then logged into my site and fixed the error. Thank you for informing me. I would not have known otherwise

I also want to thank every one for the positive input and support with the this project. I also apologize for not responding in such a long time

Is there a reason as to why an animated gif that plays at normal speed in IE is slow in your program, in regular or slideshow view mode?

That would be the image viewer itself - It's copied from windows XP, and runs with GDI+, so speeds may differ
Although, I'd find it more likely IE is playing it the wrong speed and windows picture and fax viewer plays it correctly, but I can't really be sure. Shouldn't be that big of an issue though :P

corgano said:

Cool to see there's still interest. Ima take a look at your code, been forever since I worked on this, why not now?
When you upload source please include any required images with your script :P

I'm going to (finally) add some of the features people wanted. Would love to work on this with you, fond of github?

EDIT:
what is the purpose of this line? Wouldn't it make the PATH variable longer each time it's run? O.O
EnvSet("path", EnvGet("path") & ";" & @ScriptDir)

Hey mate,

I think I messaged you ages ago when I was having a laugh at your comments in your script lol. Yeah well I popped on here the other week and noticed that there was a post in this thread the day before. So I figured that there must still be interest in here?

Yeah I am on github. I will add you if you like and upload the code for us to share and anyone else who would like to join in. I have seen some of your AutoIT stuff and can honestly say you are streets ahead of me with AutoIT, but I am a good student

That line is part of the snippet I borrowed for the the splash screen display....which you don't have lol. I will upload the images for you too. Sorry about that. I figured most people are interested in the executable. Its only geeks like us that want the source
I need to do this for the other remaining resource loads at compile time. I just had issues with the FileInstall function myself (n00b-ness kicked in! Yes I am guilty) I forgot I had it referenced twice in my code when I was debugging and could not compile my script and NFI why?
The concept from what I can gather is so that when developers want to share code (say via github) that they don't need to have the project installed in the exact same path as each other in order to compile. Basically it always allows the resources to reside in the same directory as the script no matter where the script is located on the machine and not needing to reference the full path to the resources.
Obviously FileInstall command needs a full path. So to alleviate this we move the environment forward to the script directory so the path is always @scriptdir. That is how I interpret it anyway? You'd probably have to ask broodplank from XDA developer forums exactly how his code works exactly? I borrowed it from a project (windows app for reverse engineering android) we were working on briefly.

Issues that I have with this gif viewer at the moment are two registry entries that the install script just plain ignores?
Details:
1. The path for the dll for the icon associated with .gif files is always missing 1 slash in particular....but maintains all the other slashes in the path? Eg. C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows7GifViewer\shimgvw.dll always ends up being -
C:\Program Files (x86) Windows7GifViewer\shimgvw.dll
............Notice here ^ there is a slash missing? Every time I check the registry after install that particular slash is missing?

2. Right click context menu for .gif files never writes the default value? I don't think I have it in the code that I have uploaded here but it should have the default "open" value of Open with Windows 7 Gif Viewer however it doesn't, it also ignores creating a secondary string value "Icon" with the value of "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows7GifViewer\shimgvw.dll,0". Note: the value of 0 is always given when assigning the first icon inside of a dll regardless if it is actually the number 1 icon...AFAIK icon registry values for a group of icons is always icon minus 1 or icon value -1 which can be written as either 0 or -1 for the icon of 1 and for dlls with only one icon or executables no references value is needed, just an address to the dll, exe or icon it's self is sufficient.

My only way around these issues that I have found so far is to write the code to create a reg file FileWriteLine into a text file; change its extension to .reg. silently install the reg file and then delete the reg file yeah go on tell me that is a shocking idea and I will agree lol. So for now I just uploaded this for people to use till I find out what is causing the issues with these registry issues? Feel free to pose some different solutions...I'm all ears

I have uploaded all of my sources to github

https://github.com/Jarmezrocks/Windows7GifViewer/