Capitals of Europe

[jj2007]

Extract the attached archive to any folder, then run the exe; afterwards, click into the map to see an image showing the country's capital. Might be useful as a geography lesson ;-)

Congrats to those who are able to find and select Jan Mayen, the Faeroe Islands, the Isle of Man and Malta

[Vortex]

Hi Jochen,

I turned off Windows Defernder but Windows 10 Version 1909 seems to block the application. The application displays a gray colored window disappearing after some seconds.

[HSE]

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CPU Disasm
Address   Hex dump          Command                                  Comments
00401EEC  |.  58            POP EAX
00401EED  |.  FF32          PUSH DWORD PTR DS:[EDX]
00401EEF  |.  8B52 10       MOV EDX,DWORD PTR DS:[EDX+10]
00401EF2  |.  33C9          XOR ECX,ECX
00401EF4  |>  AC            /LODS BYTE PTR DS:[ESI]
00401EF5  |.  24 1F         |AND AL,1F
00401EF7  |.  8844CA 04     |MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX*8+EDX+4],AL  <<<<<<<<<<< Access violation when writing
00401EFB  |.  41            |INC ECX
00401EFC  |.  3B0C24        |CMP ECX,DWORD PTR SS:[ESP]
00401EFF  |.^ 72 F3         \JB SHORT 00401EF4
00401F01  |.  5A            POP EDX
00401F02  |.  5E            POP ESI
00401F03  |.  59            POP ECX
00401F04  |.  6A 00         PUSH 0                                   ; /Arg4 = 0
00401F06  |.  6A 00         PUSH 0                                   ; |Arg3 = 0
00401F08  |.  6A 07         PUSH 7                                   ; |Arg2 = 7
00401F0A  |.  68 78E14000   PUSH OFFSET 0040E178                     ; |Arg1 = ASCII "Capitals\Capitals.ini"
00401F0F  |.  E8 E83F0000   CALL 00405EFC                            ; \MapsAndPhotos.00405EFC
00401F14  |.  53            PUSH EBX
00401F15  |.  E8 300B0000   CALL <JMP.&user32.CreatePopupMenu>       ; [USER32.CreatePopupMenu


[jj2007]

00401EF7  |.  8844CA 04     |MOV BYTE PTR DS:[ECX*8+EDX+4],AL  <<<<<<<<<<< Access violation when writing

It does that if you don't follow the instructions. The exe needs the images.

Extract the attached archive to any folder, then create in that folder a subfolder Capitals and extract all files from this archive to that folder.

Hi Jochen,

I turned off Windows Defernder but Windows 10 Version 1909 seems to block the application. The application displays a gray colored window disappearing after some seconds.

Sorry for that, Erol. It works fine here...

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This is Windows version 10.0, build 18362
The long story: Windows version 10.0 1903, build 18362
running on Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N2840  @ 2.16GHz

[Vortex]

Hi Jochen,

My apologies, I didn't download the zip archive containing the images. Now, it works fine. Nice work

[HSE]

Fantastic JJ 

I almost have forgotten that Europe is an island. 

[jj2007]

Thanks for testing, Erol & HSE. The map is old, unfortunately, it is very difficult to find good free maps on the web. So Russia is missing, and the Balkan is not quite up-to-date. For a demo it's ok, though ;-)

[guga]

One word. WOW !!!! 

[Siekmanski]

Cool! 

[TimoVJL]

Europe in WMF-format:
https://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=30080&lang=en

[avcaballero]

Maybe a bit offtopic here, or maybe not.

The four colours theorem:

[jj2007]

Europe in WMF-format:
https://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=30080&lang=en

Thanks, Timo. Nice but:

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239358 svg
574416 wmf
36464 map (my format)

[hutch--]

If you don't mind a few tiny JPG artifacts, you can get Timo's image down to 33k and it still looks OK.

[jj2007]

If you don't mind a few tiny JPG artifacts, you can get Timo's image down to 33k and it still looks OK.

It needs to be a vector format - the map is not an image. In the meantime I found a map of Europe, very nice and 25k only.

[daydreamer]

Great Jochen