As the first tests on Windows 7 come to a conclusion, the results are looking pretty good. With User Account Control at the highest level, the plugin succesfully communicates with Skype and Skype Extras Manager. However, after creating a shortcut and running the plugin from this shortcut, it failed to establish the connection. The next update will probably take out the option to make a shortcut for Windows 7, to force users to launch the plugin from within the Skype Extras Manager. The reason for the failure is probably the difference in how the two programs run: Skype will cause UAC to prompt and ask the user to grant authorization, while Moodsongs won't. This causes Skype to run on a sort of 'admin' level, while Moodsongs runs rather on a 'guest' level, when started using the shortcut. This causes the communication between the two to fail. If, however, moodsongs is started from within Skype, it will run at the same level as Skype and the communication seems succesful.
These problems are very small comparing to the ones encountered after Vista came out. The UAC in Vista was still causing trouble until Moodsongs first came out, combining the three older plugins.
Further tests will be done with UAC on lower levels to make sure the plugin works on any UAC level. |