The title about says it all. I have need to move the "collectiing information"

side text down about 8 lines as a group. Any help is a big thanks........

thanks

bonedaddy

here's a link to the problem screen, as you can see if I could get

the text down about 10 or 12 lines it would read better......

you spelled reduction wrong

how do u know it isn't intentional... hahahaha

Oh come on Alanill, do you really thing I misssed spilled or perhaps

I entended to spill it with a quack in the muddle........

happy hilidose

bondiddy

if you're gonna spell phonetically, atleast spell holidays right...

hollidase

give me a break dude, that's funetically

and hollidase would be the sauce used on the holiday

u guys are both crazy u know that ... that was a good laugh.

alanoll can u put a quick reply or fast reply option here. there isn't an option here

thanks

So folks, is there an answer to the question in the first post?!

What you want, is to modify the WINNTBBU.DLL - there's plenty of info on how to modify its (bitmap and text) resources, on the forum.

As for the specific purpose - of moving the "setup status" words lower down - I think you could just make some of them blank, and replace the ones lower down with the text of the ones higher up (if you get what I mean....). But that will really mess up things - I don't know why you want to do this, but an unattended setup screen that I (obviously) don't see/attend-to does not matter how it looks.

As far as I've found, there's no way to lower just ONE line (until ppl like jcarle share their analysis of the winntbbu.dll file with the rest of us...he speaks about finding references to word wraps etc in the file.) I discovered by accident that there are TWO ways you can adjust the vertical spacing on the left hand menu (don't know that I've seen anyone else post about this, so I'm gonna go ahead and do it now...).

1. Create taller or wider than normal icons for the icons to the left of the status images. They're 18x18 now. Just for kicks I created some that were 40x40 and 22x58 and they forced the text messages to space proportinately further apart vertically. (I'm using my 22x58 in a special, super-secret way that I'll be showing in the next few days or so when I post my winntbbu.dll file)

2. Either use a long text string or lots of superfluous space groups e.g. | | | in the menu text fields of the winntbbu.dll file (I've tried the long text, but am just hypothesizing about the spaces). As many lines as the text takes to wrap, that is how far your spacing will be modified. WARNING: The spacing is determined by the LONGEST string. The wrapping and stacking of the longest string of text will determing the spacing for ALL of the menu items.

Since Bill-o-Soft never intended for us to mess with the setup files it's gonna take some pretty deep analysis to figure out the low-level interoperation and specification of the setup programs and files. For the time being, we'll just have to be happy with the sledgehammer cludging we can do (wish they'd hire some of the gaming company employees so they could figure out how popular they could be if they DESIGNED the software to be modified by the general community...oh wait... that's called Open Source... oops. My bad).

Hope this helps.

And P.S.

No...that last comment was NOT an invitation to turn this post into a flame war in regards to Microsoft, Open Source, Linux, Mac, Commodore 64, my dirty underwear, or anything else... it was a "short, sharp, shot" and is meant to be left to die with dignity.

If you must post, please please please post more specific information about formatting visual items on the winntbbu.dll screen.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

*beep*

@ beaumar

thanks for your post, I've tried a couple of things but not the | | | ,

that will be next. Again thanks for the positive post, better than

most around here. Looking forward to seeing your winntbuu.

bonedaddy

no luck with the space bars |||||||| when they are wrapped and

I compile get the error "expecting text" Perhaps invisable text would

work, now just were to find it.