Can anyone post screenshots of XPLODE?

[Skywalker]

No problem! I can post it anytime if you need it again.

[plany]

How to change the screen size to full screen?? thanks

[BritishBulldog]

I made my full screen at a resultion of 640x480, so this is how to do it in this mode.

I have 3 pictures at resolutions of

639x33x16Million for head.png

639x425x16Million for main.png

639x25x16Million for foot.png

the setting for this in the XPLode.xml are in the config section as follows

 <show 
  	total='22'
  	after='21'
  	subcount='true' 
  />

to get a full screen list of software to install.

The next is to set the position and height of the screen

 <window 
  	width='639' 
  	position='0' 
  	fixmain='7' 
  />

The window mode I used is standalone

 <windowmode 
  	mode='standalone'
  />

and last is the callup for the pictures

 <colours>
  	<header 
    back='#003399' 
    fore='#FFFFFFAA' 
    image='%XPLODE%\images\head.png' 
  	/>
  	<footer 
    back='#003399' 
    fore='#FFFFFFAA' 
    image='%XPLODE%\images\foot.png' 
  	/>
  	<progress 
    border='#FFFFFFAA' 
    back='#00000000' 
    fore='#FFFFFFAA' 
    fore2='#00000033' 
  	/>	
  	<main 
    back='#4A6FD6' 
    fore='#FFFFFFAA' 
    current='#FF8000' 
    description='#FFFFFF' 
    image='%XPLODE%\images\main.png' 
    overlay='#FFFFFF22'
  	/>
  </colours>

Results are posted above. Of course if you want a higher resolution then these setting have to be adjusted.

[CorbenDallas]

@evilvoice

This one is executed at T-12 through cmlines.txt:

[COMMANDS]
".\XPLode.exe /xml:#Systemdrive#\Postinstall\XPlode\XPlode.xml /log:#Systemdrive#\XPlode.log"

(Change dir if you need)

Sorry for a newb question but...

Where do you put the Xplode folder to get it to work with the ".\xplode.exe..."

Should it be in "$oem$\$1\postinstall" ??

/T

[BritishBulldog]

".\XPLode.exe /xml:#Systemdrive#\Postinstall\XPlode\XPlode.xml /log:#Systemdrive#\XPlode.log"

that means that the XPLode.exe plus everything but the XPLode.xml is in the $OEM$ folder.

the xml is in a sub directory. I made a directory in the root of my cd with XPLode in it and call it up from cmdlines.txt.

[COMMANDS]
"konten.cmd"
"RunOnceEx.cmd"

The RunOnceEX looks like this

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off

FOR %%d IN (D: E: F: G: H: I: J: K: L: M: N: O: P: Q: R: S: T: U: V: W: X: Y: Z:) DO IF EXIST %%d\CD.TXT SET CDROM=%%d

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx

REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f
REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\install\xplode\xplode.exe /log:%SYSTEMDRIVE%\xplode.log" /f
EXIT

the directory structure is as follows..

[AllsWell]

Hello all

Could you tell me what are the differences between the window modes

- standalone

- guitransparent

- guiredraw

Many thanks

[FuNKeR]

standalone

The standalone mode is like a normal program with a window you can define by yourself. Just create three images (png, jpg...) and link them in the .xml file.

You cannot see through the program when the graphics are applied.

guitransparent

This is the most minimalistic mode that exists. It does not matter which background you have got behind the program, the whole program is transparent and you can only see the text (in the color you define by yourself).

guiredraw

This is the mode especially for Windows setups. Although I do not get the real idea behind it. It almost behaves like the guitransparent mode. The difference is, that the program uses the background that is defined in the WINNTBBU.DLL file.

There is also a fourth mode called

guiinstall

I think, this is the same as standalone, but the old description left from the old version called XPinstall... But I am not sure

Hope, the differences are clear now

cu

FuNKeR

[Excalabat]

Just wanted to thank Wraith for making this cool thing

below is my install