Could someone test something on XPsp2 please ?

> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for some kind soul willing to help me test some code on WinXP
> sp2 and (if anyone's using it) Win 2003.
>
> I've been messing around with reading and writing Windows resources (in
> DLL files, etc) and it mostly seems to work, and I can now add and remove
> icons,
> etc.  However there is a problem in that deleting resources doesn't seem
> to
> work properly on either my WinXP sp1 machine nor on my W2k machine.  I
> can't
> find anything that I'm doing wrong, so I assume that it's Windows bug.
> I've created a workaround which seems OK too.
>
> But...  There's a Windows KB article
>     http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833659
> which might be taken to suggest that the problem has been fixed in sp2 (as
> usual the bug description gives no hint whether its a problem that might
> affect one system in a million, or whether its a total screw-up with code
> that can
> never have worked at all).  So I'd like to know whether sp2 does actually
> fix the problem, and -- perhaps even more importantly -- whether it breaks
> my workaround.
>
> To test it, if anyone is willing to help, you'll need to download
>     http://ephemera.metagnostic.org/code/RWT.zip
> (23K zipped, two packages).  You'll also need to be running the Pro
> version of Dolphin 5 for the test to work.
>
> Feel free to rummage around as much as you wish, but the test I'd like to
> know the result of is just to execute:
>     WindowsResourceWriter bugCheck
> and tell me what's written to the Transcript.  It should only take a
> second to run (unless you choose to step through it, which is what /I/
> would do -- too paranoid....)
>
> On my system it produces:
> ===========
> System version:
>     dwMajorVersion 5
>     dwMinorVersion 1
>     dwBuildNumber 2600
>     dwPlatformId 2
>     szCSDVersion 'Service Pack 1'
> WindowsResourceWriterAlt  -- deleting icon groups seems to work
> WindowsResourceWriter -- Windows error: The parameter is incorrect.
> ===========
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>     -- chris

> Andreas, Ian,
>
>> WindowsResourceWriterAlt  -- deleting icon groups seems to work
>> WindowsResourceWriter -- Windows error: Falscher Parameter.
>
> Wow, you guys don't hang around do you ?  That was /fast/...
>
> Thank you both very much (and anyone else who has or will try it).
>
> The good news is that my workaround still works.  the bad news is that
> it's still needed -- which suggests there may be a problem in the way I'm
> doing it
> after all (though the same problem occurs with C code).  Oh well...
>
> I'll re-work it a bit, and do some more testing, and then it'll appear on
> my website if and when I update that.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>     -- chris