PiggViewer?

[Daemon-Held]

Curious about something... I'm a long time CoH player, but never really got into any mods or modding, but recently saw a mod linked on the CoH forums where a user replaced the gold/yellow Praetorian character creation screens with purple screens. This has sort of spurred me into wanting to create my own screens (I hate purple) and have sought out the programs to make my own.

Now, according to the tutes I've been able to locate (long outdated) everything is referring to PiggViewer. I've downloaded this, and installed it on my machine, but I get the following error:


Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Unable to load DLL 'DSS.dll': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007045A).

Under the Details pane, it has this:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'DDS.dll': A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007045A)
at PiggViewer.Misc.DDS.LoadAsBitmapFromFileInMemory(B yte[] buffer, Int32 length)
at PiggViewer.View.TextureView.set_TextureFile(Textur eFile value)
at PiggViewer.PiggViewerForm.UpdateDataView()
at PiggViewer.PiggViewerForm.OnTreeViewSelectionChang ed(Object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.OnAfterSelect(TreeVi ewEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.TvnSelected(NMTREEVI EW* nmtv)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WmNotify(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.O nMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.W ndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4952 (win7RTMGDR.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
PiggViewer
Assembly Version: 1.61.1623.39662
Win32 Version: 1.61.1623.39662
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Lee/Pigg%20Viewer/PiggViewer.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
SandBar
Assembly Version: 1.0.10.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.10.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Lee/Pigg%20Viewer/SandBar.DLL
----------------------------------------
SandDock
Assembly Version: 1.0.1.1
Win32 Version: 1.0.1.1
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Lee/Pigg%20Viewer/SandDock.DLL
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
BassLib2.Net
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.2
Win32 Version: 2.0.0.2
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Lee/Pigg%20Viewer/BassLib2.Net.DLL
----------------------------------------
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib
Assembly Version: 0.5.0.0
Win32 Version: 0.5.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Lee/Pigg%20Viewer/ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.


I've looked at SourceForge.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pigg-viewer/files/) and it looks like it's been removed. I am wondering if the problems are due to my running Windows 7, and the program being created for XP.

Can anyone offer some assistance here, or point me to a place where I can get some help?

Thanks in advance for any help that is offered.

Here are the basics of my system info:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-7522
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz, 3068 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. V8.12, 5/13/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name
Time Zone Eastern Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 6.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 5.99 GB
Available Physical Memory 3.98 GB
Total Virtual Memory 12.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 9.71 GB
Page File Space 5.99 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Thanks again.

D-H

[Poison]

Sorry, can't help you. You might be right and it's Windows 7. I have XP and my Pigg Viewer runs fine.

However, if you just want to replace the screen backgrounds, look for City of Heroes Splasher.

[Daemon-Held]

Sorry, can't help you. You might be right and it's Windows 7. I have XP and my Pigg Viewer runs fine.

However, if you just want to replace the screen backgrounds, look for City of Heroes Splasher.

Thanks for the response, but Splasher won't work either. Leandro posted this a few years back:


So, while the lack of updates probably clued everybody in, I'll make it official: Splasher only works properly on Windows XP, and I don't think I'll be re-coding it for Vista anytime soon. Other tools I use refuse to work under Windows 7 as well, so I'm probably going to go back to XP quite soon.
Guess I'm SoL for it... lol Thanks, though.

D-H