Re: For the truly cheep.
Thanks Peter. I have downloaded it just in case. My main computer runs Windows XP, but I have a backup computer with Win 2000 and that DLL might be useful. Carlos El 16/11/2010 22:13, P. J. Alling escribió: I thought I'd share this for anyone who really doesn't like being forced to upgrade. As some may know, I'm still using Win2K on my primary computer. This means I can't use Adobe Lightroom, as a raw converter, though I really don't like it's taking over every aspect of photo management. Now this hasn't bothered me too much as the new Pentax Camera Utility 4 has a much improved user interface, (even though I find it's batch capabilities inferior to RawShooter), but hell it's free. Well, not free exactly. You pay for the license when you buy the camera it's sort of Free). Well the latest upgrade which supposedly included some processing enhancements no longer ran under Win2K. Though it no longer needs an original CD to install, (Pentax giveth, Pentax taketh away). The actual error when attempting to run the application was Cannot find 'UxTheme.dll' with a system path that included /winnt/system32. UXTheme.dll is a WinXp and later OS file that is redraws controls, (doesn't MS ever get tired of screwing up their OS). Well I couldn't let that stand. I mean really The damned software installs it should run! I was able to find a cross compiled version of that DLL originally written for Wine, (a linex Windows emulator), which seems to allow the latest version of PCU4 to run on Win2K. I haven't noticed any major improvement in performance, but some of the dialogs now display better. I'll either be complaining bitterly and reverting to the previous version of the PCU4 or not mention it again and just happily use the improved version. I guess this should stand me in good stead as the latest version of PCU4 supports the K-5 if I have no further problems. The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. Se certifico que el correo entrante no contiene virus. Comprobada por AVG - www.avg.es Version: 9.0.869 / Base de datos de virus: 271.1.1/3259 - Fecha de la version: 11/15/10 20:34:00 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
For the truly cheep.
I thought I'd share this for anyone who really doesn't like being forced to upgrade. As some may know, I'm still using Win2K on my primary computer. This means I can't use Adobe Lightroom, as a raw converter, though I really don't like it's taking over every aspect of photo management. Now this hasn't bothered me too much as the new Pentax Camera Utility 4 has a much improved user interface, (even though I find it's batch capabilities inferior to RawShooter), but hell it's free. Well, not free exactly. You pay for the license when you buy the camera it's sort of Free). Well the latest upgrade which supposedly included some processing enhancements no longer ran under Win2K. Though it no longer needs an original CD to install, (Pentax giveth, Pentax taketh away). The actual error when attempting to run the application was Cannot find 'UxTheme.dll' with a system path that included /winnt/system32. UXTheme.dll is a WinXp and later OS file that is redraws controls, (doesn't MS ever get tired of screwing up their OS). Well I couldn't let that stand. I mean really The damned software installs it should run! I was able to find a cross compiled version of that DLL originally written for Wine, (a linex Windows emulator), which seems to allow the latest version of PCU4 to run on Win2K. I haven't noticed any major improvement in performance, but some of the dialogs now display better. I'll either be complaining bitterly and reverting to the previous version of the PCU4 or not mention it again and just happily use the improved version. I guess this should stand me in good stead as the latest version of PCU4 supports the K-5 if I have no further problems. The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. -- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: For the truly cheep.
On 17 November 2010 08:13, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. Yep, I sure would appreciate it, I have come across a handful of apps that behave badly under WK2 for the same reason. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: For the truly cheep.
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:31 +1100, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2010 08:13, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. Yep, I sure would appreciate it Ditto. My main PC uses Win 7 but I have an old backup PC on Win2000 that might(!) have to be pressed back into service at some stage. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ , I have come across a handful of apps that behave badly under WK2 for the same reason. -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: For the truly cheep.
Here it is. It's really simple as Pi. Download the zip file and read the readme.txt file. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PDML/win2000-uxthemedll.zip On 11/16/2010 5:53 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:31 +1100, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2010 08:13, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. Yep, I sure would appreciate it Ditto. My main PC uses Win 7 but I have an old backup PC on Win2000 that might(!) have to be pressed back into service at some stage. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ , I have come across a handful of apps that behave badly under WK2 for the same reason. -- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: For the truly cheep.
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:38 -0500, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: Here it is. It's really simple as Pi. Download the zip file and read the readme.txt file. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PDML/win2000-uxthemedll.zip Thanks PJ. I thought I'd try it out on a Win2000 system that I have running in Virtual Box on my Win 7 computer. Without the new DLLs I got the same error as you did for version 4.21 of the Pentax Camera Utility (PCU). After extracting the DLLs to the system32 directory, the PCU start graphic appeared but froze at that point. After about 20 seconds a message box appeared stating that the program couldn't start because of lack of memory or space on the hard disk. That's entirely possible as Win 2000 is running on quite a small virtual disk. Interestingly though, version 4.11 had no such problems. Anyway, it looks as if your solution works. Thanks, again. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On 11/16/2010 5:53 PM, Brian Walters wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:31 +1100, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2010 08:13, P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote: The upshot of this is if anyone would like fix, I'll be happy to put a text file with instructions and copies of the necessary files in a dropbox folder. Yep, I sure would appreciate it Ditto. My main PC uses Win 7 but I have an old backup PC on Win2000 that might(!) have to be pressed back into service at some stage. Cheers Brian -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
