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Backwards compatible? i keep getting an error - the file was compiled with the wrong version of the XNA framework

Hi Stn
No backward compatibility for GXView / XNA.
Actually, it’s more due to XNA: GXView is compiled with XNA 3.1, and the whole framework isn’t compatible at all with previous versions.

I could implement it in a later version (using display plugins compiled with different versions of XNA), however it depends how many license I could sell (and so far, not enough:-))
My priorities for the moment are the XNA4.0 support and VersionIT, a PHP based versionning system.

ty for your quick reply. i have a game developed for me from a person overseas. i would like to change one image but can no longer reach him. i am hoping your program will allow me to do it. i can make a sizable “donation” if your program allows this.
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Since it’s a little particular, I replied to your email. If you didn’t receive it, can you use the contact form?

We can convert the JPEG or other image there xnb?

Hi Djrima,
Yes, you can convert XNB to jpg, or JPG to xnb.
The current version supports only xnb generated with the XNA 3.1 framework, the next version (soon) will handle more formats (including XNA 4.0 of course)

ok thank you , You made the good work:), when you are going to make the compatible version with xna4.0?

I get “GXView has stopped working” when I try to run it. Using Windows 7.

Hi Daniel,

A new release should be available next week. However, the current version was tested in both Win7 32 & 64, so I don’t know what went wrong with your system.

In any case, I only provide support for registered users.

Best regards,
Raphael

Really looking forward to be able to work with XNA 4. Great job on this.

Please release a new version for XNA 4, it would be really nice if it worked with 3.0 3.1 and 4.0 and also allowed you to do a folder wide dump of everything in all the xnb files or even release the source code and i could make new version. or even explain how you load in the XNB files and extract the assets

I’m getting the same problem as Daniel. Let us know when your release comes.
FYI I’m running Vista.

Hi everyone.
As promised, the next release will be available this week, hopefully before saturday.
The new version of GXView will support XNA 4.0, but also former versions. (namely 2.0, 3.0, 3.1).
And yes, I included a batch extractor that will let you extract every asset contained in a folder. (the first version will consider only the textures).

As for the bug, I hope this new version will fix it. If not, I created a mantis project to track them. Available on http://teapot-hosting.com/mantis

As promised, a new version supporting xna 4.0 is available here:
http://gruaz.net/projects/gametools/gametools_beta_setup.exe

It’s still a beta, and I have to fix several issues (mainly related to uiedit and hmedit).
The release should follow soon.

I try to save a .png as a .xnb file , but it just says “an error occured while compiling” D:

can’t save files from GXView trial version
“The Feature you are tryng to use is not available in the trial version”
What’s this!?
You said the trial was fully functional.

Hi Scorch,
Do you have gamestudio installed? it is required to build XNB. (well, there isn’t many warning about this on the tool. I’ll add them for the version to come).

Felix20, as you noticed, the license mode also changed. When I created gametools, I decided to go for the “no limit trial”+”pay what you want” license.
I was aware most of the users would not pay anything with this model, but I naïvely thought I would get something from time to time.

Gametools has been out for a while now, and I didn’t receive a single $. I don’t really need this money, however it completely ruined my motivation on the project. (didn’t touch the source for months).

I didn’t liked the idea to let my project die like this, so I decided to modify the license. I kept the “pay what you want”, and removed the “fully functionnal trial”.
And it seems to work. I already got several donations, and my motivation came back. I resumed working, and will release a version before monday.

It’s sad it didn’t work at all with the other model, and I’ll do my best to keep cool features in the trial. On the good side, all the annoying screens will disappear :-).

On the other hand, your point is completely valid: there are still several “fully functionnal trial” messages, and I need to modify them.

Tried out GXView, works fine except for one problem: it kept propagating in my ram. After noticing a bit of slowdown I closed the program only to find that my entire computer was lagging. opened up the task manager and found close to 100 identically named programs still running. I would blame Vista (I always do) but you’ll want to look into this.

Hi Bruun,

Thanks for the report. I’ll try to reproduce/fix this issue.
If everything goes as planned, I’ll upload a new build today.

Updated the beta. The release should follow soon.

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Is this still an active project? With GxView I have noticed some of the files I opened are too large and the viewer doesn’t display all the picture and the program doesn’t allow you to scroll or zoom to see all the content. On the non trial version, does the converted/saved file actually saved the entire image? Thanks for any feedback!

Hi Steve!

Yes, the project is still active (well, I can’t put as much time as I’d like to).
I contacted you directly to try to find a solution to your issue.