Motivator

[Wizard]

Hi all, here's my litte project called MyMotivator. It's a bunch of inspirational messages, put the sound on and enjoy :) It's written in pascal with Delphi 6. The fade effect only works in Vista, not in XP for some strange reason :'(

Anyway, tell me what you think ;D

http://i44.tinypic.com/2h6hgqw.jpg

The files:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=f1c2ff5f74482a4a41446e35a78dc463e04e75f6 e8ebb871

[Ñuño Martínez]

Ps: How do I upload an image fo the screenshot? :'(

Did you try [ img]http://...[/img]? By the way, if you upload the images to Imageshack, Flickr or similar it builds some code you can copy and paste in forums and blogs.

[edit]Did you see the "embed" button at the screenshot page (http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=dmwgynqnznd&thumb=4) of your project? It includes the code you should use in the forums.

[Wizard]

Did you see the "embed" button at the screenshot page of your project? It includes the code you should use in the forums.

Thanks, I got it to work :o

Did anyone download my project? ::)

[Ñuño Martínez]

Did anyone download my project? ::)


I did. I did test it on WineHQ (don't have Windows) but it doesn't work. :(

The debug trace shows that it tries to load a lot of DLL that it can't find, then it catchs an unhandled exception. Here you have an extract from Wine's debugger:



gmartinez@gmartinez-desktop:~/wine/Motivator$ wine Transp.exe
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33b754
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nss3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\js3250.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\freebl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xpcom.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plugins\npnul32. dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\sqlite3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssckbi.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plc4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nspr4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssdbm3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\smime3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\ssl3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\nssutil3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\xul.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\plds4.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x2eae898, overlapped 0x2eae8a0): stub
0[19ab30]: nsNativeModuleLoader::LoadModule("C:\windows\gecko\0.9.1\wine_gecko\softokn3.dll") - Symbol NSGetModule not found
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub



Backtrace:
=>0 0x7bc3c6fc __regs_RtlRaiseException+0x4c() in ntdll (0x0032f8e8)
1 0x7bc7f75e in ntdll (+0x6f75e) (0x0032fc48)
2 0x7bc3bc2c RtlUnwind() in ntdll (0x0032fcc4)
3 0x00463530 in transp (+0x63530) (0x0032fd34)
4 0x00462504 in transp (+0x62504) (0x0032fd78)
5 0x0044972a in transp (+0x4972a) (0x0032fecc)
6 0x00450ce8 in transp (+0x50ce8) (0x0032fef0)
7 0x00467271 in transp (+0x67271) (0x0032ff08)
8 0x7b8769c9 in kernel32 (+0x569c9) (0x0032ffe8)
9 0xb7f73a87 wine_switch_to_stack+0x17() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.


Don't know if it's helpful.

[Wizard]

Hi, thanks for testing :) Unfortunately, I haven't tested it on anything other than windows ??? The dll's that it tries to load must be the windows files, this is what's in my uses clause:


uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, StdCtrls, ExtCtrls, Buttons, ColorButton, GIFImage, MPlayer;


Thanks again for testing :yes:

[Wizard]

I can't believe this post was viewed 129 times and only one person downloaded/made a comment >:( >:( >:(

[DarkBow]

I downloaded and tested your motivator a bit (got XP Pro). I like the idea, but have some suggestions:

- It would be nice to be able to load your own messages. Some people will feel more inspired by other messages than the ones you put. No pun intended here. :)

- I don't like the green color you chose. While it's impossible to put a color that all people would like, it'd be nice to be able to choose it (sort of a theme option?).

- I could see the fading when closing with no problems (on XP).

Just my 2 cents. ;)

[Wizard]

Thanks DarkBow, I'm taking your suggestions into consideration. :yes: