custom boot and logon questions

[Sesshoumaru]

i found a bootscreen that i like, and a loguin also, and integrated em into my unattended cd, but i encountered some problems.

the bootscreen, from the original custom bootscreen was much nicer that the one i ended up with.

i took the original bootscreen, and changed the picture, and it is not as good as in the custom one

is there a way to put better quality images into the original ntoskrnl ?

with the loguin, the problem i have, is that the image is reziced, and it apears with a black part on top and under it.

again, is there a way to change the original sp2 loguin image so that it looks lik e the custom one ?

[Alanoll]

kernel - ALL images are 16bit. the original artist just did a really good job picking colors wisely. You weren't so fortunate. 16bit are the highest possible simply because the video card drivers aren't loaded, and the system is using VESA mode.

logonui - If you're comfortbale with XML and HTML, open up the EXE file in a resource editor, like Resource Tuner. Not a HEX editor, but a resource editor. Open in the UIHost object. Puruse through till you find the top and bottom sections. I don't have an editor currently installed on this system, but I remember ID tags. There;s a hide attribute that you can set.

I'll come back in the morning (just past midnight here) with more details hopefully.

[Sesshoumaru]

i have resourse hacker, and thats what i use for this kind of stuff.

about the bootscreen, it looks like the original custom bootscreen i was using with style XP had a better resolution, cause the leters XP at the center of the screen where smaller, and when i took that image and replaced the one from the SP2 logonui.exe, letters are way bigger.

about logonui.exe, i'll have a look, but more info will be apreciated

[Sesshoumaru]

here is a screen of whats inside the logonui.exe

http://img77.exs.cx/img77/6720/resh.png

and here is the "text part" of it (attached)

*please post large amounts of code, or large images, as attachments - so that the topic tables doesn't get out of alignment.

code.txt

Edited October 2, 2004 by prathapml

[Sesshoumaru]

alanoll abandoned me

[Alanoll]

sorry...

I rarely venture into this part of hte forum. And I turned off email notifications, I got too many of them.

I'm righting a note and sticking it on the screen to come back here tomorrow and answer the question. Sorry it's taking so long.

[Sesshoumaru]

oh, no problem, thx for your time

[Alanoll]

change in your file

   element [id=atom(toppanel)]
    {
        background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0)

To that. That I think SHOULD hide it, if it doesn't....I'll keep looking for it.

Then to change the bottom one two (it's the next section down) change the word toppanel to bottompanel and replace it accordingly in the other section.

[Sesshoumaru]

i'll give it a try

[Sesshoumaru]

i get an error at first logon that reads:

parse error "{" at line 32

ne code:

/*
	UIFILE Generated by LogonStudio
  v1.2.2
	www.LogonStudio.net
*/

<style resid=framess>
    element
    {
        background: argb(0,0,0,0);
    }
    element [id=atom(contentcontainer0)]
    {
        background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0);//rcbmp(100,6,#FF00FF,0,0,1,0);
    }
    button
    {
        background: rcbmp(112,6,#FF00FF,0,0,1,0);
        borderthickness: rect(8,8,0,8);
    }
</style>

<style resid=toppanelss>
    element
    {
        background: argb(0,0,0,0);
    }
   element [id=atom(toppanel)]
    {
background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0)

    }
    element [id=atom(divider)]
    { 
        background: rcbmp(125,6,#FF00FF,0,0,1,0);
    }
</style>

<style resid=bottompanelss>
    element
    {
        background: argb(0,0,0,0);
    }
    element [id=atom(bottompanel)]
{
background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0)


    }
    element [id=atom(divider)]
    { 
        background: rcbmp(126,6,#FF00FF,0,0,1,0);
    }
    element [id=atom(options)]
    {
        padding: rect(25rp, 20rp, 25rp, 20rp);
    }
    button
    {
        foreground: rgb(0,0,0);
	fontsize: 9 pt;
	fontface: "Arial";

        /*fontsize: rcint(42) pt;*/
        /*foreground: white;*/
        cursor: hand;
    }
    button [mousefocused]
    {
        fontstyle: underline;
    }
    button [keyfocused]
    {
        fontstyle: underline;
    }
    element [id=atom(instruct)]
    {

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[prathapml]

does the logon work fine on an already installed/running windows? Does this only happen when you use it unattended?

[Sesshoumaru]

the logon itself, is from someone else, and i had it aplied by style XP

now i changed the image on the logonui.exe from the SP2 install.

it worked but had thoe black parts, but when i made the change, it gave the error.

now i saw i had some mistakes, so i will test agiain

[Sesshoumaru]

  element [id=atom(toppanel)]
   {
       background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0)

that gave me an error, but i wrote:

  element [id=atom(toppanel)]
   {
       background: gradient(argb(0,0,0,0),argb(0,0,0,0),0);

and no error found, but the image is still "reziced", and the black upper and lower part is still there

[Sesshoumaru]

no luck, it did't work and it looks just like before.

here is the code of the "custom logon" from wich i took the image, maybe you can tell me what to modify by loocking at it

*attached

PD: i know i should have attached it, because its big, but i don't know how

attach.txt

Edited October 6, 2004 by prathapml

[prathapml]

Reading the forum help, carefully will tell how to attach files.

Such large amounts of text are simply too big, to be not attached.