Logon Studio
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 by Noiram | Discussion: OS Customization
Logon Studio is a very nice program for anyone wishing to make and or use logon screens. It is a very safe way for beginners to change them and make them on their own. However, it does not come without its short comings. I have made a logon that I use as a (template) for making all my screens which works very well for me. I exported it to a seperate folder and each time I customize it, I can go back to that folder, click on it and put it back into logon studio for the next theme change. Here's what I wish it would do; When you edit the theme ini. file on my (template) and make all the necessary changes, it keeps the same name (template) in logon studio until I export it to a different folder, rename it and click on it to get back into logon studio with the right name. The second issue I am hoping someone can help me out with. I don't use the top panel or the bottom panel because it squashes my picture. I've tried editing the top and bottom panels to match my picture and make my picture the size of the space that isn't used by the top and bottom panels.
For instance, If I am making a logon screen with a bmp.picture 1024x768 and the top panel is 1024x80 and the bottom panel is 1024x100, should I reduce the bmp.picture to 1024x588 ? This seems very logical in theory, but in practice I have not been successful. The only reason I care about this one particular issue is so I can have a shutdown button that I don't have by not using a bottom panel, or is there a trick to that ? Any help would be appreciated
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boss0190
Reply #3 Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:04 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:04 PM
Set the top panel to false. The wall will fill in that area.
Then crop the bottom 100 px of the wall for the bottom panel. A bit easier.
C'mon Bichur, you should know that by now.
As far as your template, just leave it in the LS folder. When you want to create a new logon using it, make a copy of it in the LS folder, rename the folder and change the name in the theme.ini, and when you open LS it will be there ready to use.
Then crop the bottom 100 px of the wall for the bottom panel. A bit easier.
C'mon Bichur, you should know that by now.
As far as your template, just leave it in the LS folder. When you want to create a new logon using it, make a copy of it in the LS folder, rename the folder and change the name in the theme.ini, and when you open LS it will be there ready to use.
Noiram
Reply #4 Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:43 AM
Reply #4 Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:43 AM
Thanks, not using the top panel does save time. I also found a mistake in my theme ini. that wasn't allowing me to use the cropped part of the picture for the bottom panel. [BottomPanelColor] Background= had to leave that part blank so that Bitmap_201.bmp would be used instead of a (rbg) value. and thanks for that LS Folder info, it makes alot more sense to do it that way.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:23 AM
crop a 1024x80 strip off the top of your center pic and use it for the top panel
crop a 1024x100 strip from the bottom and use it for the bottom panel
if all goes well, they should just overlay your pic and line up