NXE Avatars

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:24 pm

I got bored, so I made this little app. It's UI isn't that great, and there's a total of like 50 lines of code. However, it works and that's all that counts.

So, here's a quick description, a preview image, and a download link.

Description:

Update: Type someone's GamerTag into the textbox, and click "Get Avatar!" You will then have the option to save the image to your desktop and the URL will also appear in the textbox below so that there's no need to re-upload the images.

Update 2: New UI version up. It will look like this no matter what OS you're using, unless you have visual effects turned off. I'm leaving both downloads up for people to choose from.

Preview Picture:

Download Link: (Old) Click Here To Download

Preview Picture: (New)

Download Link: (New) Click Here To Download

Source Download Link: Click Here To Download

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:32 pm

Now what will I post here?

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:33 pm

Nothing. Your posting ability in this thread has been reduced to 0.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:59 pm

Cool.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:06 pm

Doesn't get much more blatantly attractive and cool as that.

Sweet app, by the way.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:10 pm

The program should include a direct link to the image already online, rather than requiring people to re-upload them.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:31 pm

Done.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:56 pm

For someone with an Ubuntu signature and avatar, I'd think you'd make, at least, a more Wine or Mono-happy application. Crashes gdiplus in Wine, fails on the text encoding for a resource in Mono.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:36 pm

I don't use 'Wine' or anything like that. I only use what's supplied with Ubuntu. I wish they'd release a C# for Ubuntu, though.

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:55 pm

Mono allows you to use C# with linux and other OS's.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:06 pm

I'll have to look into that.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:12 pm

DrXThirst wrote:I'll have to look into that.

If your an .NET-anything programmer and you're moving to Linux, you will love Mono (Mono itself comes with Ubuntu - it's what powers applications like F-Spot and Tomboy, and the amazing Banshee media player [in the repos]). It's more than just C#, it's a complete* open-source implementation of .NET with compilers for a number of other languages (VB, F#, etc.).

*though it would seem that the text encoding you're using for something isn't in there. I'll run it through the debugger...

Code: Select all

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.Text.SBCSCodePageEncoding, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'.
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Type:internal_from_name (string,bool,bool)
  at System.Type.GetType (System.String typeName, Boolean throwOnError) [0x00011] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System/Type.cs:457 
  at System.Resources.ResourceReader.ReadValueVer2 (Int32 type_index) [0x001f9] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceReader.cs:310 
  at System.Resources.ResourceReader.ResourceValue (Int32 index) [0x00092] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceReader.cs:394 
  at System.Resources.ResourceReader+ResourceEnumerator.get_Value () [0x00032] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceReader.cs:603 
  at System.Resources.ResourceSet.ReadResources () [0x00043] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceSet.cs:208 
  at System.Resources.ResourceSet.GetObject (System.String name, Boolean ignoreCase) [0x00032] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceSet.cs:163 
  at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject (System.String name, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00038] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceManager.cs:186 
  at System.Resources.ResourceManager.GetObject (System.String name) [0x00000] in /build/buildd/mono-1.9.1+dfsg/mcs/class/corlib/System.Resources/ResourceManager.cs:170 
  at NXE_Avatars.Form1.InitializeComponent () [0x00000] 
  at NXE_Avatars.Form1..ctor () [0x00000] 
  at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) NXE_Avatars.Form1:.ctor ()
  at NXE_Avatars.Program.Main () [0x00000]

Hmm... Further research indicates that it may be an extended ASCII format for another locale which you probably shouldn't be using. If you can find what's using it, you can try and dump it. Based on a decomp with a binary resource file, you may have included pointless foreign characters in a resource string.

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:15 pm

I see the root of the problem!

http://skitch.com/dirkgently/henb/nxe-a ... pplication

Not to worry the Mono team will soon have this application working

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:18 pm

It does support other languages too, but C# has the most comprehensive support, and most of the stuff was written in C# I believe.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:21 pm

Ok, well I trust Halomods, so I'm going to upload the source for you guys to take a look at.

EDIT: Source is up.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:40 pm

Thanks, I got it working. Had to kill off the encoded/encrypted resource elements for the WebClient, and remove a lot of initialization calls for the WebClient, but it works.
e: And everything appears to work fine.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:44 pm

Sweet! Mind uploading that version, and a link to Mono?

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:54 pm

DrXThirst wrote:Sweet! Mind uploading that version, and a link to Mono?

You already have Mono.
`sudo apt-get install monodevelop` for the IDE. While MonoDevelop 1.0 isn't any where near Visual Studio, it does get the job done. Regardless, your Visual Studio-built binaries should work anyway, barring any conversion problems (like the ones we saw here). 2.0 is great, but it's not finished yet. I'm using an old alpha, they may even have a beta out for all I know...

Attached is the Mono-friendly version, which should still run on Windows (and even Mac).

Download here

e: Moved it to my site.

Eaton · Post by **Eaton** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:57 pm

Updated your UI.

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:05 pm

Nice app Dr.