NT4VU3 Goals

[awergh]

NT4VU 3 Goals

Update More Resources
New Windows NT Logo BMPs
Add New Hardware Wizard
Security Centre
Better Installer
Font Update
Maintenance Wizard\Centre
mydocs.dll equivelent for NT4
32 Bit Icons

This is a work in progress and i need feedback so i can for an official roadmap.
Im only trying to implement reasonable things, so dont ask for unreasonable stuff, because im not really a programmer.

[Damian666]

well man, you got allready a big list here...
the intaller i getting along as you saw, so that is cool for you.
the rest, well i think you should do this list first man.

damian666

[marxo]

New Windows NT Logo BMPs - I've made these for you (will u use mine?)
Add New Hardware Wizard - It is nice but it needs MSCOMCTL.OCX
Font Update - Tahoma?
Maintenance Wizard\Centre
mydocs.dll equivelent for NT4 - that should be solved in registry and by making a dll with icons.
32 Bit Icons - asm programmer needed

[awergh]

New Windows NT Logo BMPs - I've made these for you (will u use mine?)

yes

Add New Hardware Wizard - It is nice but it needs MSCOMCTL.OCX

well i could distribute it, because the listview needs mscomctl.ocx

Font Update - Tahoma?

yeah i think so

Maintenance Wizard\Centre

not in development yet, not quite sure what i want for this

mydocs.dll equivelent for NT4 - that should be solved in registry and by making a dll with icons.

yeah i dont think it would be easier then to right a whole mydocs dll

32 Bit Icons - asm programmer needed

anyone know any?

[marxo]

How about making imageres.dll that would work on NT4?

[awergh]

but dont we still need to fix gdi32.dll to get that to work

[alexanrs]

For the 32-bit icons you should take a look here: http://www.geocities.com/alexanrsousa/winnt351.html
It is a shell I developed (basing myself in Calmira II for Windows 3.11) for Windows NT 3.51. It uses 32-bit icons and a library called madCodeHook that Hooks Windows APIs so other applications could take advantage of them.
The thing is, I've been to madCodeHook's website recently and it appears that there is no free version anymore, since the library was used by some malaware (it is pretty powerful and very simple to use). But as soon as you can point me a suitable replacement (or can I can legally use the older version I have?) I might be able to try to use some of the shell's code and create a DLL for windows NT4, implementing such support. And the good thing about this approach is that, if I succeed, the same DLL can be used on systems with or without Shell Update in any language.

[awergh]

sounds good, the screnshots look good, if i try nt3.51ill be sure to try that.
well if its an old version its like abondonware and it is leagally free, it sounds kinda like xsetup 6.6 which was free but there are new versions which are trialware but people still distribute 6.6

[alexanrs]

Okay, today I'm kind of busy but I'll se if I can start working on that tomorrow or the day after.

[awergh]

ok cool, im happy waiting considering the other alternative which was rpl2k needed gdi32 to be modified and stuff which would take ages cause i dont know much assembler