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23. August 2010, 05:46:51

Bucic

Posts: 522

Flash / plugins focus

For example on YouTube I have to click on the player area first to have its controls working. It appears to have focus then and no keyboard shortcuts are working until i click outside flash elements are on the web page. So actually two issues, annoying, not present in Firefox.

24. August 2010, 22:02:01

spadija

Posts: 1634

Yep. If you're on Vista/7, it's also very convenient to create a batch file to copy opera.dll to the patcher and run the patcher, then another to copy opera.dll back to program files. You need two batch files because the patcher cannot be run elevated, but the final copy has to be elevated. The elevation powertoy will let you run processes elevated from batch files.

25. August 2010, 04:57:35

Bucic

Posts: 522

Originally posted by spadija:

Yep. If you're on Vista/7, it's also very convenient to create a batch file to copy opera.dll to the patcher and run the patcher, then another to copy opera.dll back to program files. You need two batch files because the patcher cannot be run elevated, but the final copy has to be elevated. The elevation powertoy will let you run processes elevated from batch files.


I have no idea what you are talking about smile I'm on Windows 7 and did everything as per author's instructions (the simple way - download).

25. August 2010, 20:41:56

spadija

Posts: 1634

It's just a quick "one click, done" method of patching. Since the Program Files directory is protected so that you can't edit files in it without admin privileges, you have to put the patcher somewhere else, copy opera.dll into the patcher's directory, run the patcher, then copy opera.dll back into Program Files. (unless you disabled UAC) You can automate the whole process with batch files so that you just have to run the batch file and it will do everything for you.

If you're fine with doing everything again manually each time you update, there's no need to do this, but if you use the snapshots and update frequently, this makes it more convenient.

The batch files should look something like this: (you would put these in the same directory as the Eolas patch)

patch.bat
copy "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.dll" .
patch_click_to_activate.bat
elevate copy.bat

copy.bat
copy "opera.dll" "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.dll"
echo done
pause


I don't know if elevate preserves the current working directory, so you might need to use an absolute path for the source in copy.bat.

26. August 2010, 18:21:44

Bucic

Posts: 522

I updated to the latest 10.70 build and the patch stopped working sad

upx: opera.dll: NotPackedException: not packed by UPX Unpacked 0 files. 1 file(s) copied. Patching... - Search pattern couldn't be found. File NOT patched. Error! Press any key to exit.

26. August 2010, 19:25:44

spadija

Posts: 1634

Same here. The latest build is a bit strange compared to the rest, (missing gstreamer, etc.) so maybe it's just with this build. If it continues to not work, someone will need to update the patcher.

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