Comments on: Making a VS Project Work in Vista 64

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:16:49 +0000

For those interested... here is a link to my rebuild. Disclaimer: In order for me to get it to run on my machine, I also had to remove some of My Exposé's settings functionality. If all you want is an Exposé clone that works on Vista 64 check out my other post called Exposé Clones Reviewed There are better Exposé clones out there than My Exposé.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:35:08 +0000

hey I don’t have VS, is there any chance you could post your rebuilt binary? I don’t know if the author has been completely clear on the licence terms. I saw your comment on his blog, have you heard from him?

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:49:28 +0000

I’m glad Switcher works!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:20:53 +0000

Unfortunately, it didn’t work, it didn’t even install :S But, I checked your article out and installed Switcher, which does the job perfectly, so thanks a lot!

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:02:04 +0000

If my build doesn't work check out my blog Exposé Clones Reviewed. There you can find a good alternative to My Exposé .

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:30:26 +0000

…maybe you could send me your working executable? I bet that that too will crash on my comp. I hope you can see my e-mail as the admin.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:28:19 +0000

I rebuilt with Debug… still crashes when I start it. I only have one monitor. It’s a mystery

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:48:48 +0000

I almost forgot… If you have multiple monitors… it might crash. I added this bit of code to ExposeWindow.cpp line 322 in the MyExpose Project:
if(screen->Bounds.Left<0 || screen->Bounds.Right<0 || screen->Bounds.Top<0 || screen->Bounds.Bottom<0)
{
continue;
}

I’m pretty sure that was the last code change I made.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:39:12 +0000

Maybe try changing it from Release to Debug. Once in Debug you may need to go back to the configuration manager and change it back to x86 again.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:42:45 +0000

Thanks, the project compiles now, but… even though I’ve tried building for x86 and x64, neither works… I’m using Vista x64 SP1, and it just tells me that myexposelauncher.exe has stopped working. I replaced all the dlls in the installation as well as the exe with the newly compiled files, yet no dice :S