Avatar service (avs.dll) since 0.9.50 breaks avatars in IEView.

[bkraul]

I have a strange problem happening with my avatars when using IEView 1.3.0.3 Unicode. I currently have the latest version of miranda, which is 0.9.52 (32-bit Unicode). A while back, I started noticing that avatars were no longer appearing in my message window:



However, the avatars on my contact list show up fine.

I noticed in the miranda changelog that a few fixes have been done to the avatar system since version 0.9.50. I know IEView Templates use the %avatar% variable to show the avatar, and with the latest version of miranda, testing the output of %avatar%, all I get is '(C)'.

First I thought it to be a database issue, paths, and all, so I tried everything, to no avail. Then having read the miranda changelog, and seeing the avatar system changes, I thought to roll back a few versions to see if it was an update issue. Tried versions x.x.51, x.x.50, no joy. But, interestingly enough, version 0.9.49 works! as depicted below:



Fiddling around with it, I found out that the problem is indeed inside the Avatar Service, avs.dll, that apparently changed since version 0.9.50. I even tried puting a 0.9.49 avs.dll into the 0.9.52 installation, and my issue with the avatars on the message window were resolved, but no avatars showed on contact list. This is, of course, understandable.

My question is, what has changed in the avatar system for IEView to not get the correct avatar URL using the %avatar% variable inside the templates? Has this variable changed? Do we need an updated version of IEView (hasnt been updated in a looong time (3/27/2011).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[borkra]

You can get test version of the updated IEView here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8e...2xyb1hUWHhxZkU

[bkraul]

You can get test version of the updated IEView here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8e...2xyb1hUWHhxZkU

borkra, thank you so much for the link. I can confirm that my problem is completely resolved with the updated version of IEView. Now, my question would be, is there some kind of SVN or GIT repository for getting night builds or the sort? The SVN repository on berlios.de is not up to date, or I can't find the right place.

Thanks a lot!

[borkra]

Yes, my understanding berlios is up to date.

[FREAK_THEMIGHTY]

Yes, my understanding berlios is up to date.

Not really, it misses version.h file, thus IEView cannot be compiled :(

[isch]

I had the same problem. I can confirm that https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8e...2xyb1hUWHhxZkU fixes it!

[raxidian]

Thanks a lot for the link to the ieview that solves this issue. I was going nuts believing that the ieviews templates I'm using were obsolete and found out that %avatar% was returning "f" as a value instead the appropiate avatar image path.

Installed this new ieview and it fixed the problem right away.

[entiteQ]

Same here, the linked IEVIEW solved the problem. Thanks alot borkra !