On 22/12/2010 12:50, Caleb wrote: > On 22/12/2010 7:53 AM, Tom Edwards wrote: >> Hello everyone, here's a small project I just completed: >> http://steamreview.org/external/blender/BlendThumb.zip >> >> It's a thumbnail handler for Windows 7 and Vista that extracts the >> .blend thumbnails generated by Blender 2.5 for display in Explorer. It's >> feature complete (including compressed blend support), but there are two >> niggles left before it's final: >> >> - I haven't actually tested it on Vista. Feedback appreciated! >> >> - I'm unclear on licensing. I'd like it to be GPL but there are two >> problems: firstly I'm using the Windows API, and secondly the code is >> based on a sample thumb handler provided in the Windows SDK. I've >> replaced all of the meat, but a lot of the supporting COM guff is the >> same as in the sample because it's so simple that I can't see any other >> way of doing what it does. Does anyone have experience of what happens >> in situations like this? >> >> Thanks! > I've always wanted something like this, thanks for making it! However, I > haven't been able to get it working. > > I put the x64 BlendThumb.dll into System32, ran "regsvr32 > %windir%\System32\BlendThumb.dll", deleted IconCache.db from > AppData\Local and rebooted my system. Explorer still won't show any > thumbnails for my 2.55 .blend files. I'm running Windows 7 x64. Any ideas? > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > I found a bug in the registration process: I'd added an integer registry value, but the in-library Microsoft code that was adding them only supported strings. It made regsvr32 crash, which I'm surprised you didn't mention!
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