Ghost82

@Lost Soul: here's the file. Hope it helps! wpi.htm

I was going to try to theme the User Manual but, I find it allmost impossible to do simply because the manual is opened in a new window. I'll try t find a way to really integrate the manual in WPI (no more new window) but I'm not much of a coder so I'm going to need some help from the experts!

Nice one! After playing with this I found that the minimum size without losing the controls is width="166" height="42" you can also add autostart="true" loop="true" to have it play without stopping.

Being busy with customizing WPI I ran into the bad looks of the User Manual, thus wondering if it's an option to include that in WPI's theme support (and moving on, maybe even in the language support?) that would really be a cool inprovement!! I realize it's going to be a hell of a job but I'm going to try it with the glossy theme anyway...

When clicking the "User Manual" button normaly you get a window with al the toolbars etc... I didn't like it so I decided to do something about it: add this to the top of your wpi.htm function openManual(MyURL) { window.open(MyURL,"mypopup"," status=no,toolbar=no,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes"); } (between the script-tags) and change the following section in wpi.htm <!-- The user manual. --> <div id="ManButton"><a href="./UserManual/manual.html" target="_blank" onMouseDown"document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manual.gif';" onMouseOver="document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manualOver.gif'; stm(getText(ttmanual),Style[0]);" onMouseOut="document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manual.gif'; htm()"> </b></font> <img src="./themes/Glossy/manual.gif" align="absbottom" class="mainbtn" border="0" name="ManualButton"> <font class="side"><b><script>document.write(getText(lblmanual));</script> </div> </td> to <!-- The user manual. --> <div id="ManButton"><a href="./UserManual/manual.html" target="mypopup" onMouseDown"document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manual.gif';" onMouseOver="document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manualOver.gif'; stm(getText(ttmanual),Style[0]);" onMouseOut="document.ManualButton.src='./themes/Glossy/manual.gif'; htm()" onClick="openManual('./UserManual/manual.html')"> </b></font> <img src="./themes/Glossy/manual.gif" align="absbottom" class="mainbtn" border="0" name="ManualButton"> <font class="side"><b><script>document.write(getText(lblmanual));</script> </div> </td> Now we have a clean window without those ugly bars

Before people start asking things that are allready under development check this Current WPI DEVELOPMENT projects

Found another thing: The category selection box ignores exclusions. I have multiple versions of MSOffice on my disc and if I select the category right after loading WPI it selects ALL Office versions wich won't work during install... here's what I have: Office 2003 Basic Office 2003 Business Contact Manager (BCM) Office 2003 Small Business Edition (SBE) Selecting Basic excludes both other Office versions Selecting SBE excludes Basic but leaves BCM open for selection Selecting BCM also selects SBE and excludes Basic all of this is good BUT: if I select the category checkbox (Office) then ALL versions get selected!!! Man this is a pain... All I can do for you is test but I'm not really a coder (time to fetch myself a workshop I guess )

this works perfectly here! nice fix m8!

I slightly changed the Options screen so it would completely fit at 1280x1024 without having scrollbars. thought I'd share it with you

FOUND IT!!! in wpi.htm change: <td rowspan="2" class="txt" valign="top" width="100%"> <div id="layergroup"> <div id="layerboxes" style="position:absolute; display:block; z-index:100; width:100%; height:100%; overflow: hidden;"> <form name="WPI"></form> </div> to: <td rowspan="2" colspan="3" class="txt" valign="top" width="100%"> <div id="layergroup"> <div id="layerboxes" style="position:absolute; display:block; z-index:100; width:100%; height:100%; overflow: hidden;"> <form name="WPI"></form> </div> that solved everything for me

thanks for the quick reply, I forgot to mention that the problem is also on all other "pages" in WPI (the options & configurations page are also not wide enough anymore and are showing the horizontal scrollbar I've looked through EVERY file that comes with WPI but was unable to find the right place to fix this...

I found one issue with this, if you select a category and then click the "select defaults" button the category box doesn't get unchecked !!! Everything else does get set to default!

See the attached file. I've tried different resolutions but that's not the problem. Can anyone give me some insight on this?? Here's what I changed in wpi.htm <table border="0" width="100%" height="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" onclick="stopInterval()"> <tr> <DIV id="DebugLayer" style="visibility:hidden; overflow:auto; position:absolute; z-index:1000; width:100%; height:100%"> <form class="txt" name="debug">DEBUG:<br></form> </DIV> <script> if(debugOn) document.all.DebugLayer.style.visibility='visible'; </script> <script> if (top.status=="480") document.images("titleimg").style.display='none'; </script> <td bgcolor="#18339f" height="10%"><img id="titleimg_L" src="./graphics/titleimg_L.gif" border="0" align="left"></td> <td bgcolor="#18339f" height="10%"><center><img id="titleimg" src="./themes/Glossy/title.gif" border="0" align="center"></center> <td bgcolor="#18339f" height="10%"><img id="titleimg_R" src="./graphics/titleimg_R.gif" border="0" align="right"></td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3" background="./themes/Glossy/smallbart.gif" height="3px"></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" width="100%" valign="center" align="center"> </td> As you can see I added an extra TD to get the images in the right place (I couldn't get it right without doing this...) I changed ALL the colspans to "3" in wpi.htm (I didn't change any other file)

It will be HUGE but if you use the "driver compressor tool" you can make it half the size (I managed to slim-down some HP drivers from 50 to around 25-30MB) [edit] here's the link Driver Compressor Tool [/edit]

yep, just use them uncompressed and let windows search on the CD. works like a charm!

check the CMD file that comes with WPI, you can change things there. Just make a backup of the file after you've changed it (if needed) and then update WPI and place the file back... that should be enough, otherwise I don't get what the problem is...

NICE!!

read all three post above i think @Ghost82 try to say that would be nice if , with 100..200 apps in WPI_CD , we can get there two or more default buttons instead one , so we can choose between 2 or more preset default apps for installation . i heard this ideea before somewhere here , and i like it to. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I agree that the WPI_CD could get rather big (that's what DVD's are for aren't they ) But for a professional user this could be really handy. also the extra fields that chetbaker is suggesting could be nice! the array thing of commands is another smart thing to do because it saves the trouble of creating an extra file for the installation. (requires more diskspace)

I don't think 1280x800 is supported allready.

What problems do you have?

Something I would like: "Themed" selections, let me try to explain that: Example: You want a setup for companies that do allot of stuff with graphics so you need: - Photoshop - some other graphic editing tool - another one - etc - ... BUT: you also do setups for construction companies, they will need: - AutoCAD - WinZIP - etc - etc - .... It would be cool to have an option that automaticly selects a default number of apps for installation then. (offcourse you must be able to add or remove stuff during installation) I know that this won't be in the next release but it's just an idea and since I don't have the skills to do it myself I'm asking those who have

Just another idea, what about sub-categories? like this: System | System Extras | Themes/Application Skinning | Benchmark/Hardware info | ...

@kel: you're missing PowerToys, Internet, Registry Tweaks, Microsoft Xtras, Visual Styles. Wich are all in there allready I've Added the following for my UADVD: CD/DVD Tools Multimedia Compression Security I just got the idea to check some download sites to see the category's they use and came up with: Development & Web Authoring Desktop Enhancements Business Design tools Home and education Network management Drivers (for those who don't use the driverpacks)

tjeezz, take it easy man!!! If you're in such a hurry to get that stuff then build it yourself!!! Give the guy the time to finish it and deliver a good product!!!

If you link to the KB articles @ MS then it's easier to download the updates in the needed language. Also the pack's nice but I think you should distribute it without the updates (shorter download time)