Hi there,
it's been a while since I did any texthacking at all and now I moved to Windows Vista. I just about tried everything (short for changing the source and recompiling) to make it run on Vista. It always gives me a RTE 9 subscript out of range erro :/ Now, my locale is Japanese (as it is a Japanese pc) so I'm not willing to change that. AppLocale doesn't seem to either work or make thingz32 work either.
Does anybody actually have a running Thingy32 on their pc with Vista?
I already looked into alternatives, but there is nothing so simplistic as thingy to get a job done IMHO. The best thing I ended up with was Bongo`'s Windhex... Hoewever, that didn't appeal to me as it could do just about anything, but I kind of need this fixed length text editing that is cancellable (like in thingy, select appropriate space, notice how it doesn't fit, try other stuff, still doesn't fit ESC and nothing's changed).

Help much appreciated

Tauwasser

i use the original thingy.exe, which still works fine. actually, i prefer it to just about anything else i've tried, when it comes to romhacking. (its search function is godawful slow though, and you can't really cancel it even though it says you can; you have to wait until it finishes searching the whole file. best to use something else to search. i like cygnus hex editor.)

you have tried elevating thingy32, right? (running it as administrator)

Copy and past and use a macro to clear the crap. You can do this in Notepad++. I haven't found a decent fixed length dumper that works right so I always coded my own.

So I edited the source code and added lots of stuff to it that was apparently missing because of translation issues with the original version..
It's not compiled using VB 6.0 and the version number is corrected.
So yeah, the original was using strings to get data from the rom file. This behaviour of course breaks when you have strings with one character being more than one byte long (Japanese locale, Koren, Chinese etc.) I changed it to use an array instead. It was the only occurrence and though I did not test it thoroughly, it should work as expected and as before on systems running locales with 256 characters max.
I already edited the thingy32 page on RHDN, however, it might be better to have the old version available as well?
I really don't know about this

cYa,

Tauwasser

So can my edit be made into a new release listed or do I have to relist?

cYa,

Tauwasser