I learned Z80 assembler when I was 12 - does that count? The Basic that came with machines in those days was so slow that the only way to "smoothly" move bitmap graphics around for games was to do it "the hard way". What, you think a snotty 12-year-old had more noble motives? What's more noble than playing games? Leave this stuff up to adults and they just make boring things like... well... I don't know what adults did with it. I was 12. 12-year-olds don't give a fig for adults, unless it's dinnertime or they need a school permission slip signed.
All I knew is that I wanted my glowing green photonic caterpillar to move faster, so raster interrupts were the key. And let me tell you - nothing will stand between a 12-year-old and controlling his raster interrupts, certainly nothing so silly as a little assembler.
I have since forgotten pretty much all of it, but like swagger and chutzpah the important thing is where it gets you, rather than how long you hold on to it (this is what allows women to fall in love with bumbling idiots - if you can act like a non-idiot for more than 3 seconds even once in your life, you've already done that hard part). In my case, it made my photonic caterpillar move - which was worth more to me than all the adult cares and woes of the 20th-century combined.
. I realized that I did not compile the program in Unicode. The new version have been uploaded now to the first post. You can now pass Unicode paths command-line parameters into it and it will properly forward it to xplorer2. It should now be final.
You don't want to hear this, but I'm getting way too many first-run failures from a cold-start to be comfortable with. Subsequent executions are fine and immediate, but the initial one is what gets people's attention. It'd almost just be simpler to change the delay to 10 seconds and be done with it. If x2 doesn't start in 10 seconds, people have bigger problems than passwords that are too long for hourly testing. It wouldn't be so bad if x2 didn't make quitting-out so difficult when it's in its "license demanding" phase.
, but it's also just a pain in the arse.
I actually do want to hear it because when you told me about how xp2KeyCrypt was being "grumpy", I wanted to just forget it but here I am sitting around trying to figure out how to make it work for the past few hours and I decided that... screw it. I'm just going to make it simple and add a long delay instead of trying to figure out how to make it detect that a second instance xplorer2 is running because it just ain't doing it when you start launching more than one instance. Or a better way is to remove "xplorer2 Not Starting Correctly. Quitting." and therefore if it's grumpy, it can be silently grumpy instead of popping up a dialog which the user has to hit OK. The reason is the second of xplorer2 IS starting so no need for that dialog.
