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[Brito]

Build 050

I'll be releasing new beta versions as soon as new features are added, please post any requests/bugs related to winbuilder.exe here in order to keep things organized, Thanks!



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Beta 1  WinBuilder050_B1.zip   746.57KB   464 downloads

- Generated log.txt files now support a results filter to ease diagnostics.

Here's a log example:  log.txt   31.08KB   406 downloads

It is also possible to use html format instead of plain text files. I've tried to implement it, but didn't liked the result much since it would force wordwrap on long lines - causing the text to be quite unreadable..

Does anyone knows how to write html lines without allowing wordwrap on web browsers?

- thanks to paraglider this is now solved..

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Beta 2  WinBuilder050_B2.zip   768.53KB   435 downloads

- Disabled the random splash screens and quotes
- Using the logo created by TheHive - thank you!
- Log now is outputed in html format, here's a log example:  log.html   29.24KB   589 downloads

This is my first coding attempt in html syntax, feel free to provide better solutions to present logs..
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Beta 3

- FileBox can safely be added inside script interface without making the labels disapear..

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Beta 4

- Pressing the update button on the project file will search for updates on all scripts from this project.
- Added the multiplication and division operators to strformat - same syntax as the previous operators from this command, only using mult and div to achieve the expected results.

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Edited by Nuno Brito, 29 August 2006 - 10:40 PM.

[smiley]

You can also make all the controls to update when their variable is changed



Good work Nuno

[paraglider]

You could try <nobr>..... </nobr> around each line.

[Brito]

You can also make all the controls to update when their variable is changed

I just didn't added it before before because the interface flickered too much when redrawing all controls, I'll likely add a procedure that will only update new values instead of refreshing (saving/creating) these controls.

But first I'll focus more on the label bug (still haven't figured the reason..)

You could try <nobr>..... </nobr> around each line.

Thanks a lot, will try!

[smiley]

In the last line except for the duration you can add the number of errors and warnings

[pscEx]

Great!

I like the new log version.

Peter

[TheHive]

Suggestion:
Better way or easier way to let Script builder implement a Box with Browse ability. Which is needed to let people Browse to certain folders, instead of having to type it into a type box.

[Moon Goon]

Just a quick test FYI

WinBuilder with Standard Settings running on 2k SP4:

YES - Dell XPH SP1
NO - VLK 2003 Enterprise
NO - University Xp Pro SP1
YES - Dell XP Pro SP2
NO - Retail XP Home No SP
NO - Retail XP Pro No SP
NO - Upgrade XP Home SP1

NO = The entry "ntkrnlmp.exe" in the [SourceDiskFiles] section
of the INF file is corrupt or missing

Yes, I know some of these are not supported by WinBuilder.

[Brito]

Updated EXE to beta 2..

[TheHive]

Just a quick test FYI

WinBuilder with Standard Settings running on 2k SP4:

YES - Dell XPH SP1
NO - VLK 2003 Enterprise
NO - University Xp Pro SP1
YES - Dell XP Pro SP2
NO - Retail XP Home No SP
NO - Retail XP Pro No SP
NO - Upgrade XP Home SP1

NO = The entry "ntkrnlmp.exe" in the [SourceDiskFiles] section
of the INF file is corrupt or missing

Yes, I know some of these are not supported by WinBuilder.

Welcome to the board and thanks for taking the time to test.
You bring and idea to mind. We need to add to the "How to Start" some
Requirements to what OS and what SP is supported so the Uder wont be confused to why there version doesnt work with WinBuilder.

[Brito]

Perhaps adding them in the wiki will help?

It is a big list of not working sources..

I somewhat remember handling with this "ntkrnlmp.exe" issue before..



Moon Goon

Are you using a multiprocessor motherboard?

Can you please replace all entries related to ntkrnl... on txtsetup.sif to point to ntoskrnl.exe?

like this:

Original:

[SpecialFiles]
Multiprocessor=ntkrnlmp.exe,2,ntoskrnl.exe
Uniprocessor=ntoskrnl.exe,2
MPKrnlPa=ntkrpamp.exe,2,ntkrnlpa.exe
UPKrnlPa=ntkrnlpa.exe,2

Modified:

[SpecialFiles]
Multiprocessor=ntoskrnl.exe,2,ntoskrnl.exe
Uniprocessor=ntoskrnl.exe,2
MPKrnlPa=ntoskrnl.exe,2,ntoskrnl.exe
UPKrnlPa=ntoskrnl.exe,2

Unfortunatelly I'm not sure if it will work, it's just a thought..

[TheHive]

Using this version, with the newest Scripts and the Source of Windows2003 SP1 i was able to get to the Desktop this time and no reboots.

[TheHive]

Spoke to soon. I retested by clearing my Target and ISO folder and I still get the Reboots.

[Moon Goon]

It's an HP motherboard with an Althlon 3200. No dual core support.

I think it relates to the whole mouclass.sys issue in that certain sources have files in different .CABs or slightly different TXTSETUP.SIF. The REG.EXE issue with Win 2k should have gone away with the built-in HIVE loading.

Not complaining! It's a joy that *any* source builds from Win 2k! Most hobbyist developers would say "eh, it works for me" and forget Win 2k. Out in the real world though you've got crazy people like me who still use Win 2k on a regular basis. Thanks again

[Brito]

It's an HP motherboard with an Althlon 3200. No dual core support.

I think it relates to the whole mouclass.sys issue in that certain sources have files in different .CABs or slightly different TXTSETUP.SIF. The REG.EXE issue with Win 2k should have gone away with the built-in HIVE loading.

Not complaining! It's a joy that *any* source builds from Win 2k! Most hobbyist developers would say "eh, it works for me" and forget Win 2k. Out in the real world though you've got crazy people like me who still use Win 2k on a regular basis. Thanks again

I assume that your sources won't work even when you run winbuilder using XP/2003 as host? (if available..)


The only limitation on the hives creation at the moment is reg.exe as you've refered, but psc also reminded that using regedit.exe /s would have the same result - this would likely make winbuilder work even on Win9x machines (reactOS or Wine after this? )

Out in the real world though you've got crazy people like me who still use Win 2k on a regular basis.

Welcome to the boot land forums..

[smiley]

Nice work Nuno

The htm log is pretty good but can your raplace the full path of winbuilder with %basedir%? So the log will look like this :  log.htm   22.83KB   552 downloads

[Brito]

Done.. Thanks for the suggestion!

This will filter things..

Output.CommaText := AnsiReplaceText(Output.CommaText,ExtractFileDir(Application.ExeName),'%BaseDir%');

Will also add a line to report wich is the value for %BaseDir%.

[smiley]

Can you also add thiis?

Attached Files

•  log.zip   6.68KB   346 downloads

[Brito]

Can you also add this?

Using graphics would be nice, but how to have them available either off/online?

Using Explorer I see that whenever the images are missing, a little empty square is added..

Is there any way of avoiding this whenever images are not available?

[smiley]

I don't know whats wrong. for me it was ok but when i downloaded it it lookes like an image was missing

[Brito]

The images can be hosted on the boot land server and would work.. the only problem would be users without network conection who'd still see those blank spaces.

And how would those who prefer to avoid network connections do?

Just wish I knew more about html..

[smiley]

The images can be hosted on the boot land server and would work.. the only problem would be users without network conection who'd still see those blank spaces.

And how would those who prefer to avoid network connections do?

Just wish I knew more about html..

My zip contains the images. You don't need to be online to see the log.The empty image is because of a mistake in the htm file.

[Ove]

You can add the images as jpegs in the WinBuilder zip file, and then in the HTML use
<img src="c:\my winbuilder dir\imgs\error.jpg">

[Draugen]

or, use the relative path for images:

<img src=&#34;imgs\error.jpg&#34; />

Although IMHO, simple use of CSS to color the log should be sufficient. I might look into the log HTML and suggest styling (the frontpage generated monster it is now is not very appealing - besides, it uses NO semantic HTML at all. The <font> tag is so 1997 ).

[Brito]

There was internet and html back in 1997??

I would certainly appreciate if you could take a look and see what can be improved..