Thread: Announcing: MobiHandler (a Windows program)
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Old 06-03-2011, 11:49 AM   #90
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Originally Posted by Alissa View Post
Thank you alan for testing and giving proper feedback. My finding, however, is that I can see the cover thumbnail of the book "Hybrid" that I just bought (for $0.00) from Amazon.com for testing. I tested it on Windows XP, Windows 7 32 bit, and Windows 7 64 bit, and all three environments gave the same results. It works for me.

So, the bug should be dependent on something that is different between my PCs and yours. I want to know what is it.

Well, I think I have never told this, but recent versions of MobiHandler have a detailed debug trace feature built in, although it is turned off by default. I think the debug trace is helpful to know what's happening. Can you perform the following steps? (I'm sorry they are slightly complicated, but following the steps is important.)
  1. Create an empty Windows folder in your convenient place. You can give it any name, but I refer to it as "New Folder".
  2. Copy the .azw file of "Hybrid" to the "New Folder" alone.
  3. Close the "New Folder".
  4. Open the folder that MobiHandler is installed. It should be "C:\Program Files\Alissa\MobiHandler\" in most environments. If you are using 64 bit OS, it should be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Alissa\MobiHandler". The folder may be on a driver other than "C:" under some rare circumstances.
  5. There should be a file of name "debug.reg". (The ".reg" part may not be shown.) Double click on it. It may ask you whether you really want to import registry settings. Please answer "OK".
  6. Restart your PC.
  7. Open the "New Folder" immediately after the restart (before opening any other folder that contains other .azw/.mobi/.prc files.)
  8. Change your view to thumbnails if it is not.
  9. Click on the file for "Hybrid". (Don't double click on it, though.)
  10. Close the "New Folder".
  11. Open "C:\Program Files\Alissa\MobiHandler" again, and double click on "Undebug.reg".
  12. Restart your PC again.
  13. Now, open your "Pictures" folder. It is in "My Document" folder in Windows XP, or in "Document" folder in Windows 7. You can also access to it through the task area by clicking on "Pictures" under "Library".
  14. There should be a file of name "mobihandlerlog.txt". Open it by double clicking.
  15. Copy and paste the content to a reply in this thread.

The log file should contain tens of lines containing cryptic info. You need to be a programmer and to read the MobiHandler source code to understand what they mean, but I promise there are no privacy or credit card info. Relax.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
sure, i just finished your very well written list of step-by-step instructions, here are the results:


0b84:0b44:MobiHandler 1.1.1266
0b84:0b44:0001:CClassFactoryBase
0b84:0b44:0001:QueryInterface:{00000001-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}:IClassFactory
0b84:0b44:0001:CreateInstance
0b84:0b44:0002:MobiHandler
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{886D8EEB-8CF2-4446-8D02-CDBA1DBDCF99}:IPropertyStore
0b84:0b44:0001:~CClassFactoryBase
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{886D8EEB-8CF2-4446-8D02-CDBA1DBDCF99}:IPropertyStore
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{B824B49D-22AC-4161-AC8A-9916E8FA3F7F}:IInitializeWithStream
0b84:0b44:0002:Initialize(IStream *, DWORD)
0b84:0b44:0003:MobiBook(stream)
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{886D8EEB-8CF2-4446-8D02-CDBA1DBDCF99}:IPropertyStore
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{886D8EEB-8CF2-4446-8D02-CDBA1DBDCF99}:IPropertyStore
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{886D8EEB-8CF2-4446-8D02-CDBA1DBDCF99}:IPropertyStore
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{71604B0F-97B0-4764-8577-2F13E98A1422}unsupported)
0b84:0b44:0002:QueryInterface:{C8E2D566-186E-4D49-BF41-6909EAD56ACC}:IPropertyStoreCapabilities
0b84:0b44:0002:GetValue:{7A55582B-BD8C-4475-B94C-B87A388A7899} 100 (System.StatusIcons)
0b84:0b44:0003:~MobiBook
0b84:0b44:0002:~MobiHandler
0b84:0dac:Finalizing module

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