Ksnoopy's Remote Wonder plugin bug

[philip.sion]

Hello !

First of all thanks to Ksnoopy for having developped that plugin.

BUT...

We are several people now that have some troubles running the Girder plugin itself, having a "could not load atirw.dll" error on Girder startup, and so the plugin is not listed in the plugin list.

Is there anyone that has succeded in making the plugin work ?

Ksnoopy ? Have you any idea of what's happening ?

(For me it's Win98SE, Grider 3.2, RW 1.2)

Thanks.

Philip.

[Ron]

Did you read the documentation ? It says that you need some extra libraries to make it work. Other then that I don't know what is wrong.

[Ron]

from the readme.txt
seems pretty clear to me.

How to install:
1. Install ATI Remote Wonder software version 1.2
http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/m...onder-1-2.html
2. Install Girder v3.2+
3. Copy atigdr.dll to C:\Program Files\ATI Multimedia\RemCtrl\Plug-Ins
4. Copy atirw.dll to C:\Program Files\girder32\plugins
5. Launch ATI Remote Wonder software.
5. Right click on the system tray icon and select Properties.
6. Click on the Plug-Ins tab.
7. Click Import, and choose "atigdr.dll"
8. Launch girder
9. Click File|Settings
10. Click on the plugins tab
11. Check the box next to the "ATI Remote Wonder Plugin"

[Ron]

RW 1.2 <= Remote Wonder Drivers

i see.

I don't have the ati hardware.

Yeah KSnoopy used the Visual C++ 7, so you might need the .net :evil: libs. Search the MS homepage, I have no clue about this. Maybe someone with this hardware would do us all a favour and recompile it with VC6.

[Ron]

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~vedel/micros...ET/win/system/

So MS releases a new version of their compiler but the do not offer a download of these rather important libraries. How hard are they trying to loose customers ? I surely won't buy the new compiler, I'll stick with VC6, works just fine for me.

[Ron]

I tried to recompile the plugin with my copy of VC6, but because I do not have the ATI hardware it won't let me install the SDK, so someone else has to do this.

Or if someone could find a 'legal' download of these libraries that would be good too.

[Ron]

again:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~vedel/micros...ET/win/system/

read the posts above

[Blight]

Has anyone noticed that this remote uses X10 remote technology? Isn't it possible to adapt the X10 driver to work with this device more transparently?

[Ron]

Start a new thread with DETAILED information about this problem. ( that means unload all plugins and see if the problem persists )

[ksnoopy]

Sorry to everyone who couldn't load the plugin. After checking into it I realized I build the dlls with the /MD switch instead of the /MT switch. The /MD switch tells the compiler to use the dll version of the C runtime, and not many people have the VC7 version. So I rebuilt them a new version telling it to staticly link to the C runtime, so it should work for everyone. It should be on this site soon. Look for v1.1b at the main girder download page:
http://www.girder.nl/downloadn.php

Please let me know if this cures the problem.

I also reworked the ATI software plugin have a configure option so you can tell it not to override the mouse buttons, so it will retain the original mouse functionality.

Thanks,
ksnoopy