[Clipart] shell extension testers?

[Andy Burns]

Anyone willing to run a quick test for a "nill functionality" version of 
my svg extension? Should work on winXP and win2K (perhaps even winME)

Progress was a bit slow for a while, I had a problem where I could only 
get a monochrome HDC/HBITMAP not a colour one :-(

It's located at http://www.adslpipe.co.uk/SvgShellEx.zip

You need to extract the SvgShellEx.dll file from the zip, it doesn't 
matter which directory you extract it to, so long as you remember the 
path, then from a command prompt register it

regsvr32.exe "X:\Extracted Path\SvgShellEx.dll"

This version should do three things ....

1) Whenever you hover over a .svg file you should get an SVG specific 
tooltip with the first few lines of the XML displayed.

2) Whenever you select properties of a *single* .svg file from explorer 
or the desktop you should have a dummy tab of svg fields.

3) When in thumbnails view you should get a red "X" with green text 
including a hex handle number per .svg file.

It won't recognize .svgz files just yet.

If it does anything wierd on your machine, you should close all 
instances of explorer windows and then unregister the extension, and let 
me know what went wrong ...

regsvr32.exe /u "X:\Extracted Path\SvgShellEx.dll"

If it fails to unregister you might just have to kill any explorer.exe 
processes from task manager, unregister it and then run a new 
explorer.exe from task manager.

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I've got to make my decision on what svg library to use for rendering 
now. I'm tending towards librsvg for my first attempt, anyone know if it 
and it's dependencies require MinGW or will build with VC++

It seems that with Gnome, Mono and X.org, cairo is probably a more 
strategic route, any guesstimates on how soon v0.4 will emerge from CVS?