[ProSnooper] Unfortunate bug (under Vista)

[valentin]

Hello all !!
I've contacted Simon, the nice developer of this program and he asked me to come here to get some help from professional :p
I can run the program, the chat, servers, buddies, all this works fine, the problem is is that i can't join a server and the worst is that i can't create one !
Nothing happen when i click on a server (except this error: ProSnooper error: Access violation at address 00449A60 in module 'ProSnooper.exe'. Read of address 00000004) and really nothing happen when I create a server (no matter which of the two ways).
He told me to try to execute (with start function of Vista) this command: WA:// and actually i doesn't work either !

Sorry for my english and I hope someone could help me because i wanna use Prosnooper so much :-/
Thank you!

[CyberShadow]

The "ProSnooper error" is a bug in ProSnooper. Simon should fix it.

As for the wa:// thing - do you have the latest Beta update (3.6.28.0) installed?

[valentin]

Yes the latest beta, and a commercial version of WA.

[pisto]

it happens also in winxp home.

[bonz]

XP Home? Vista?
Are you guys having administrator rights?

[pisto]

I do. i can use all the features of prosnooper, but the error address is the same iirc

[BigBilly]

You should ask here ---> http://www.laene.nl/fb/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14526
Theres the founder of it and can maybe answer your question :)

[yakuza]

In windows XP the error appeared but it still launched WA and joined the game, on Vista Home Premium however it doens't join the game, for me.

[valentin]

So, where the heck does that error come from ? :)

[CyberShadow]

W:A associates the wa: protocol handler every time it runs. It may require administrative rights to succeed at that. You can try checking in the registry if the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\wa exists.

[valentin]

Yup, i do have this key !
Adminstrative rights ? I'm the admin on my computer (vista) what do you mean ?

[CyberShadow]

Unless you turned off UAC, even if your account has administrative rights all processes run with minimal required priviledges. To make a program that doesn't use Vista manifest resources run with full access to your computer, you need to start it in a special manner: right-click the program or shortcut file, and select "Run as Administrator" or something similar.

Anyway, it's possible Vista implements protocol handling differently now. I might have a look sooner or later.

Is it working for anyone at all using Vista?

[simhug]

Hi, I'm the developer of the program.

First of all the exception error hasn't got very much to do with the wa:// protocol handler and game launching (it's an error in the parser of the gamelist)

I originally directed Valentin to use this forum. However, it seems that Vista has something to do with it, so in the next version it will be possible to use WA.exe (and thereby setting the wa://-string as a parameter), which I really should have done since the first version.

If anybody has any other comments, feel free to use my msn (sf@rndtv.dk) or IRC (#worms at gamesurge)