Getting SplashImageOn() to work in Bart's PE

[mlazovjp]

Trying to create a Bart's PE CD. I am using the stock build of Bart's PE (no additional plug-ins or anything). Just my AutoIt v3 script.

I used depends.exe to try and figure out which .dll files I needed to include with my plug-in. These are what I include in my plug-in's .inf file (all are copied into system32):

; System32
browseui.dll=2
shdocvw.dll=2
shell32.dll=2
advpack.dll=2
msrating.dll=2
mshtml.tlb=2
mshtml.dll=2
mlang.dll=2
msxml.dll=2

;found with dependency walker
CDFVIEW.DLL=2
EFSADU.DLL=2
HLINK.DLL=2
INETCOMM.DLL=2
PRINTUI.DLL=2
WZCDLG.DLL=2
MSJAVA.DLL=2
MSOERT2.DLL=2
MSXMLR.DLL=2

My AutoIt script registers the following .dll files using the command "regsvr32.exe <file>":

shell32.dll
mlang.dll
browseui.dll
msxml.dll
mshtml.dll
shdocvw.dll

At the moment, it looks like everything works OK except for one thing - SplashImageOn ( ). Where there should be a splash image, nothign appears. Once the splash image is cleared with SplashOff ( ) the script continues as if nothing was wrong - no error message or anything to indicate there was any kid of a problem. I have it set to load a .jpg. If I run this script in Windows XP is works just fine.

ANy ideas where to go next in troubleshooting this?

[Zedna]

Maybe you are trying to FileInstall JPG image to current directory (CD) which is read-only?

[mlazovjp]

Maybe you are trying to FileInstall JPG image to current directory (CD) which is read-only?

The jpg file is in the same directory as the compiled AutoIt script. There is no FileInstall() call being made.

The splashimageOn() call works fine in a full-blown XP environment, so it just has to do with .dll files not being there or registered.

Edited May 2, 2007 by mlazovjp

[Zedna]

The jpg file is in the same directory as the compiled AutoIt script. There is no FileInstall() call being made.

The splashimageOn() call works fine in a full-blown XP environment, so it just has to do with .dll files not being there or registered.

Look into Autoit 3.1.0 sources

src/script_misc.cpp -->

AUT_RESULT AutoIt_Script::F_SplashImageOn(VectorVariant &vParams, Variant &vResult)

AUT_RESULT AutoIt_Script::Splash(VectorVariant &vParams, uint iNumParams, int nFlag)

There are is at many places

return AUT_OK;

after some kind of errors (to not produce errors)

Maybe it would be better to setup @error to some values in these situations. So scripter can check where is problem and if functions was done right - but this decision is on developers.

I think OleLoadPicture() can use some OLE DLL files for example.