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Welcome/Shutdown text with Logon Studio

Does it ever show/display?

January 22, 2005 8:18:35 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Ive been working on a logon screen, part using Logon Studio and part modifying the UIFILE.txt file directly, and so far ive managed to do everything ive wanted to do (including things that cant be done in Logon Studio).
with the exception of this: normally, when you are logging in (not switching users), where the Windows logo used to be displayed, is a large "welcome", however, with all the logon screens ive used, none of them have actually shown it. can it be shown, and what am i missing, or is it something that cant be done (in or outside of Logon Studio)?
and when you log off, or shutdown/restart the PC, it normally tells you that its saving your settings, windows is shutting down, etc. yet no logon so far has shown that..
i appreciate any feedback people can come up with; i really want to get this logon screen finished and upped, just i dont like knowing that theres things still left unfinished about it (perfectionist)
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Reply #1 February 24, 2005 10:44:59 AM
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In my post, you listed a fix, but I dont see where to put it.
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Reply #2 February 25, 2005 2:20:03 AM
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if you look inside the UIFILE.txt, search for: "welcomeshadow" (itll be towards the bottom)
you should come across this line:


above this line, is the following line:

change the width of this to something over 200 (240 should be fine, depends on what size font and what the actual welcome text is).

ive used ResourceHacker to check out what the actual ORIGINAL UIFILE.txt code is (not the one that LogonStudio creates when you create a new logon), and theyve set it to 340.

ive yet to work out how to actually have the welcome text appear anywhere you want (cause so far its inline with the logon help text)...
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Reply #3 February 25, 2005 7:12:29 AM
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I brought up a simular question awhile ago, and was told by the powers that be, Logon Studio will not do that.
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Reply #4 February 25, 2005 10:53:07 AM
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The important part of the info you posted is invisible!!!
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Reply #5 February 25, 2005 12:01:38 PM
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I brought up a simular question awhile ago, and was told by the powers that be, Logon Studio will not do that.

That's correct LS will not do it, but he is tweaking things "outside" of LS.

Douglas... the lines you're telling us to look for, are being stripped out of the comment......

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Reply #6 February 25, 2005 1:03:17 PM
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I'll talk to Froggy on IRC about updating LS?
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Reply #7 February 26, 2005 7:05:31 AM
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(itll be towards the bottom)


I found it at the bottom. Looks great!
Thankyou!
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Reply #8 February 26, 2005 5:49:38 PM
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sorry guys; i just did a copy'n'paste, and forgot the forums render the <> tags as real HTML tags...
so, what i MEANT to say () was:
if you look inside the UIFILE.txt, search for: "welcomeshadow" (itll be towards the bottom)
you should come across this line:
<element id=atom(welcomeshadow) content=rcstr(7)/>

above this line, is the following line:
<element layout=filllayout() width=0rp>
change the width of this to something over 200 (240 should be fine, depends on what size font and what the actual welcome text is).
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Reply #9 March 1, 2005 6:09:56 PM
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Thanks great tip worked perfectly, if you have logo selected ( logo must be 137 x whatever, default is 137 x 86 )
then logging off etc will display (size of logo, 137, sets width for text ). There are 9 preset positions for logo
when start computer welcome will show at selected logo position. What I have played with for logo is scaling
background image to 137 x whatever works out to, default logo does not look good. I have tried using 137 x 1
image, worked and does not take away from background. With scenery logons crop sky, set logo top middle can
hardly see logo. Using logo to get logging off I saw in another thread, but cannot find again to credit who
posted info.
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Reply #10 March 1, 2005 6:19:41 PM
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hm.. interesting.. you could prob. get it to show the text without any image, but removing the 'content' in the id=atom(product) line..
ill give it a try..
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Reply #11 March 1, 2005 7:48:15 PM
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Looking forward to see if can get rid of image.
Also to change font size for logging off etc in theme.ini, 45=14 , 14 seems to be default, change to size you want.
Still not sure which font type in theme.ini is for logging off.
When you upload logon that is altered outside logonstudio should warn that editing with logonstudio will mess up
logon.
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Reply #12 March 2, 2005 8:37:15 AM
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i only use LogonStudio to save the images over to the appropriate logon bitmap (never ever click save unless youve saved your work).
ive found removing the "content=rcbmp(..)" actually also hides the text, so its looking like the image is required :/
Ill have to check into the font, cause i know ive rearranged the theme.ini numbers to get rid of duplicates and unnecessary numbers :/
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