MCT Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 1) A Program with a big database of switchsi would be interested in helping build the database if someone would make the gui part example:in section 1, there could be a browse button, 2 look 4 the filein section 2, there could be a list of switches, then it outputs it 2 an inf/ini file & u have it run from inside the program with a switch like /silent or something?programname.exe /silent /loadinf=whatever? maybe a thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisabledTrucker Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I notice you say:This utility allows you to drag and drop any file to it's window and have it run modifype and makecab with the LZX compression at it's highest setting (equivalent to the compression used on the Windows CD) on the file. The file is compressed and written to the same filename in the same location with an underscore replacing the last character in the filename. IMPORTANT: modifype.exe and makecab.exe MUST be in your path (preferably \windows\system32).But when I attempted to use ModifyPE.exe to compress a .bmp or a .jpg file for inclusion into the i386 folder, (fyi, I was trying to replace the default files for the wallpaper,) it only gives an error that it wont work with them. Are you able to overcome this with this utility? Does the .jpg and .bmp files not need to use the ModifyPE.exe program to compress them? Mind you, I used it seperately and not using your program, as I have just now found it. TIA.*EDIT*Also, will using the LZX compression actually benefit those files?One more thing inref:Now, to think of another util to make. How about a way to do them in batch form? Such as multiple files at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrzycrim Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 But when I attempted to use ModifyPE.exe to compress a .bmp or a .jpg file for inclusion into the i386 folder, (fyi, I was trying to replace the default files for the wallpaper,) it only gives an error that it wont work with them. Are you able to overcome this with this utility? Does the .jpg and .bmp files not need to use the ModifyPE.exe program to compress them? Mind you, I used it seperately and not using your program, as I have just now found it. TIA.*EDIT*Also, will using the LZX compression actually benefit those files?Compressing a bmp seemed to work fine for me, with and without modifype. LZX will give you better compression than the Makecab default which is MSZIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisabledTrucker Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I dont think I mentioned that I didn't use this to do anything with the ModifyPE, I was just using the ModifyPE program itself, and it refused to work with all the .bmp's and .jpg's I tried it with, (about 5 of each). Maybe I was using it wrong, or didn't use the correct switches when using it, but I couldn't make it work. I knew that the LZX compression was better than Makecab alone, but I didn't notice much in size difference than using it alone when I was compressing them all last night. (About 30 in all.) Could be the files I was attempting to compress were already compressed quite a bit to start with being the reason, as I used Jasc PSP to assure they were as small a file size as possible before I included them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeFiend Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 1) A Program with a big database of switchsi would be interested in helping build the database if someone would make the gui part I've already made a similar database, and I'll be working on the GUI (front end) soon (as soon as I'm done with registry tweaks lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 23, 2004 Author Share Posted August 23, 2004 Regarding compression, I expanded and re-compressed the entire I386 for testing and I found out that EVERY single file is compressed using LZX(21). So I suppose compressing to anything else would be a moot point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my2001 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Compression Bin Nice utility, although I only needed to re-compress two files for my unattended cd and made this by cmd line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big poppa pump Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 A right click option for this utility would be great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senax Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 ...I was just using the ModifyPE program itself, and it refused to work with all the .bmp's and .jpg's I tried it with...It's called ModifyPE! Only PE- -> Executable- -> .exe-, *.dll-, *.ocx-...-files can be modifyed this way. There is no need to do this with bmp's or any other filetype.Senax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denney Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Nice app. I'll be saving this for future use.I'm also working on an app switches database except mine will be online in PHP5 so it'll have the option for users to add their own switches.Would be nice to have an offline version though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
battleangel3222 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 jcarle, can you tell us what you have in store for us next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Pinning the topic! [ Pinned. ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Nice app. I'll be saving this for future use.I'm also working on an app switches database except mine will be online in PHP5 so it'll have the option for users to add their own switches.Would be nice to have an offline version though.Might I suggest that you have some kind of moderation system for it so junk switches (or dupes) get weeded out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 24, 2004 Author Share Posted August 24, 2004 Pinning the topic! [ Pinned. ]I was starting to think you didn't like me. You keep closing my topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted August 24, 2004 Author Share Posted August 24, 2004 How about a way to do them in batch form? Such as multiple files at a time.You can drag any quantity of files including your entire I386 folder if you wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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