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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:09 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2007 16:12
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Hello,

Mods please feel free to lock if this breaches AUP but asking for a quick favour (again) from my beloved community.

BRIEF

Basically I dont have Visual Basic anymore; wondering if anyone can write me the following EXE in Visual Basic.

- 1) Centred full window, say 450 x 300 displaying an image. Border of 1, no buttons or anything, just a splash screen.
[b] - 2) After 7 seconds, it closes and runs an EXE.
[b] - 3) I'll need 3 different versions of this program, with same image but different EXE filename being run for 3 different games.[/b][/b]

Basically; not having the source to my old games, I want them to display a quick branding splash before you run them.

I can pay around £5 for this over PayPal ($10).

I could do it myself in like 1 minute but I dont have VB and I need this done ASAP! It'd be dead easy to write. Get that image in there and then like two lines of code. Okay, cheers. Add me on MSN or contact me below. MSN preferd.

Drew

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:15
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why can't yo do this in Darkbasic?


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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:18
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1) Dont have original game source code
2) Adds alot to the download size for an executable
3) I only want a splash image to run, not a whole EXE.

People who can do this only please.

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Van B
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:19 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2007 16:21
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VB?, does it have to be in VB?

I could knock this up in PureBasic for you tomorrow if you like, but be aware than PB only runs on 2000/XP. In PB, the executable would be miniscule, in VB it would be about 2mb!.

Also, in PB your splash screen could be any shape just by using a transparency colour like in DB, without needing any fancy plugin like VB relies on.


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Drew Cameron
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:23
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Hi Van,

I'm trying to get this online by the end of the day as I'm going away for a couple of days;

I'll take you up on your offer when I come back if nobody else comes forward today!

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:36
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Just messing around and it's practically done.

I'm off home in about 1 hour, so let me know what your calling your splash image, and each executable and I'll sort you out. I have it set to use magenta (rgb 255,0,255) as a transparent colour. I just need those details and it's all set.


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Code is damn simple, runs identically in both DB and DBP
just make a text file called "Config.ini" and put the filenames of the splash image and exe in there.
These can include pathnames as well, so you can hide them in other folders or something.

Simple solution to a problem. Damn sight easier than pissing about with VB to do it.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 16:48 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2007 16:48
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It's okay Van, I think I've got someone on MSN who's doing it just now. Thank you though. I bought you this disk:

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Hehe just finished too - here's it attached in case anyone needs it, just call splash.exe passing the name of the executable as a parameter.

I'd be interested in knowing the final .exe size of the VB version.


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 17:34
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Hi VanB; 392kb

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What version of VB did that person use? It would be bad if they used 2003 or 2005 and it required .Net to be installed on their computer for just a splash screen. Personally I'd use Van B's Purebasic version, it will keep things simple.


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in vb.net exe should be around 24-40kb for a simple splash screen customizable via a config. I actually did this exact thing once but I wouldnt begin to remember where the project is. probably on old machine

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David R
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.net 2005 actually has a splash screen object under "add item"


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yeah but you'd be better off using a form, customizing it to this job, compile, eat turkey, sleep....

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And watch american football.


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2007 22:32 Edited at: 22nd Nov 2007 22:33
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I could do it in an old copy of VB3 I have... will make a VERY small code-based file size, although image will not be compressed unless you are happy with JPG.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Quote: "It would be bad if they used 2003 or 2005 and it required .Net to be installed on their computer for just a splash screen."


Just about every computer has .Net 2.0. Its not too hard to come by because of paint.NET and xp SP2 has it. Also windows update added that to xp along time ago. .Net 3.5 is harder to come by since now there are just the people with 2008 microsoft visual studio who have it.

I'm going to put this here because you will ask for it anyway. http://web.umr.edu/~klpwdf/codez.html
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