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[Stimpy]

Hi Bober, just thought that I would post a list of issues that I have found while looking at the latest version.

I have uploaded a .rar to rapidshare that contains screen shots of my findings...

http://rapidshare.co...Errors.rar.html

1.) icon too small.PNG = This is a warning dialogue box with a small icon used, it makes the box look wrong.
2.) icon too small 2.PNG = again, wrong icon size used.
3.) Speach panel.PNG = I have reported this one before, but here is a screen shot of what I am going on about.
4.) Shutdown background.PNG = I personally prefered the coloured background that Amnesia put in here, instead of the grey. Also the icon graphics are not centralized. *** This is personal preference, but maybe Amnesia might like to release his .res file containing the background graphics***
5.) Squashed icon2.PNG = Screenshot says it all, and again, the wrong size icon is being used.
6.) sorry, no screenshot yet... The Windows shutdown screen (displayed after windows closes the desktop) text is basically left justified, instead of center justified, and looks small and ugly on a widescreen hi-res monitor.
7.) Not sure about this one, so I am going to test this in a minite or 10, but im positive that the mouse pointer was animated in the last official V'ISO (8.2.1), and it is not animated now.
8.) The graphics used to depict speaker setups are not accurate, and display the wrong speaker setups for the actual selected setups.

Edited by Stimpy, 09 July 2008 - 10:20 PM.

[bober]

but from witch resoruces?and the cursors werent animated im 100% positive.

edit; took alook at rue screen shots, ill prolly be able to fix acouple of them but ,ure tour icon is wrong i have no idea where its commign form i dont have the same on my tests,ill chek the text out lound thing,the too small icon from the advanced inf prob is doable too and ill have to track down the squashed icon..but i ahve alot of other work to do so dotn expect this to be fix anytime soon.the shut down background is fine, its the same from the original viso,if you want to make one thats nicer feel free,if its to my liking ill add it,but ull have to produce a res file with it tho.

Edited by bober, 09 July 2008 - 09:46 PM.

[Stimpy]

Hi Bober, I admit that I could be barking up the wrong tree with the animated cursor thing. So I am trying to find out right now. Will report back soon.

[bober]

im 10000000% sure lol,the res are from user32.dll and it dosent support .ani cursors...trust me,animated cursors are added via themes.

[Stimpy]

I think you must be right Bober! I just have this idea in my head. I am just installing a few older versions, because I wont be able to sleep without being sure first! lol

[bober]

okay..but im telling you;
"im 10000000% sure lol,the res are from user32.dll and it dosent support .ani cursors...trust me,animated cursors are added via themes."
yon can even try on ure own without doing any test builds ,try to add a .ani to user32.dll in the cursors section ull see.

[Stimpy]

I bow my head in shame now Bober! I was wrong, the mouse never animated during setup, and it was a theme replacement addon that was changing the mouse pointer to animated after GUI setup! My sincere apologies to you.

But I think the rest of my observations stand.

Edited by Stimpy, 10 July 2008 - 01:20 AM.

[bober]

ok so ill see what i can do to fix ure reported errors in the coupel of days that follow

[Stimpy]

Thanks Bober.

I don't expect you to single handedly fix all these issues, nor am a cracking a whip. I simply love this project, and want to do what I can to perfect it, and from time to time, contribute to it. You could call me an unofficial beta tester!

Can you give me the name of the .Res file that controls the Shutdown graphics, then I will go and do some work, and you can have a look at the results.

Edited by Stimpy, 10 July 2008 - 10:34 AM.

[amnesia]

Can you give me the name of the .Res file that controls the Shutdown graphics, then I will go and do some work, and you can have a look at the results.

- msgina.dll.res

Edited by amnesia, 10 July 2008 - 01:07 PM.

[amnesia]

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Edited by amnesia, 10 July 2008 - 01:21 PM.

[amnesia]

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http://translate.goo...t...sl=ru&tl=en

[bober]

like the 1st progress bar,and damn,also liek those avi's in the link u gave.

[Mr_Smartepants]

I also like the first bar, but to call it a 'progress' bar is a misnomer since it doesn't show how far you've gone or how much is left. It's more of an 'activity' bar.
The second bar is a true 'progress' bar. Too bad we can't have both merged.

[Gorki]

- msgina.dll.res

Btw amnesia those look beautiful. I personally like XP so any of first 3 would be good if you ask me. It would be nice to stick with same colorur green or blue so everything would be similar.

like the 1st progress bar,and damn,also liek those avi's in the link u gave.

Darn I like that too!

What do you guys thing of this desktop properties?
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I don't have great skills to patch resources but if any of you are willing you can find all you need here or direct download

[Mr_Smartepants]

I agree, any of the first three banners look great.

Wow! That display properties panel looks awesome!

[bober]

altho id gladly add it to shell32,its a fake resource,and i really dont like the idea of having eye candy just for the looks of it(isn't there enough already?)and the fact that the little display menu that shows 7 backgrounds is static ,its a the party breaker, not to mention the left pannel is inoperable too.

Edited by bober, 11 July 2008 - 08:00 PM.

[Gorki]

altho id gladly add it to shell32,its a fake resource,and i really dont like the idea of having eye candy just for the looks of it(isn't there enough already?)and the fact that the little display menu that shows 7 backgrounds is static ,its a the party breaker, not to mention the left pannel is inoperable too.

Thanks for letting us know. And I was just about ..and suddenly ...never mind.
We still have to fix boot problem... so we could be on safe side.

[bober]

yeah the boot problem is weird,i dont know what im gonna do about it.

edit:
i have made small adjustments,text to speech pannel is fixed,and changed the shutdown background,i cant seem to fix the offset of the buttons logos,but i have a good i dea why this is happening,when i get more time ill take an other crack at it.also i checked the speaker schemes and they seem fine,altho some images are used to depict related speaker setups,all in all i think its ok.and about the welcome screen i think its offsetted to the left to accomodate the login names.

Edited by bober, 14 July 2008 - 12:30 AM.

[Stimpy]

Thanks Bober, great work as always. I will have a look at it in a little while.