[Shell Patcher] Super Turbo Tango Patcher 6000


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What, you thought this would be easy, and ready-for-production? Noooooo...

Open up hack-o-matic.cmd in a text editor, and comment out the line at the end reading "shutdown -r -t 0" - then you can read the error messages that should hopefully be many.

I got Vize building. If I release a version of STTP based on it, I think I might call it 'Tiize'.

It finally worked, but that was after a clean install of vista. :p Maybe because I used the uxtheme.dll patch before applying tango, prior to the clean install?
Nah, uxtheme is unrelated. My guess is it disabled some security feature that you/STTP 6000 weren't working around.

For the (few remaining) people (running 32-bit Vista/Srv2k8) who care, it's announcement time!

It's no secret that I've really been too busy to seriously do much work on my Python+QT-powered patcher, so I'm putting that on hold indefinitely (and possibly drop it entirely, if I learn enough C# to implement some of my more ambitious ideas). I've secured a copy of VS2008, and XPero's blessing to use Vize source for STTP 6000(+1). After a few hours getting the hang of C# as a language, clicking the Vize code into my brain, tweaking some strings, graphics and XML, and setting up an SVN repository for it all, I've got a pretty good start on something actually usuable. I'm still thinking about what I want to call it (arguably the least important element, but I love to work on my punmanship), so help me pick one! All I really need to do, at least to start out, is build UI to deal with theme selection (Tango / GIT, etc) and it's ready for release. While I haven't added any new resource targets since 7/7/7, icons and reshack scripts are much easier things to work on in small chunks every few minutes here and there, and with solid patcher code, I can get back to that with a vengeance. Estimated release date... sometime before Spore and Duke Nukem Forever are released ;)

Tiizr:

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Name ideas:

  • Tiize: My current favorite, because I am one, and it's short. Tango+Vize... Tiize.
  • Super Turbo Tango Patcher 6000: It's got street rep.
  • Tango Patcher 6000: DeviantArt's deviation titles don't support the extra length needed for Super Turbo, anyways.
  • Vango/Tista/Tangows/Wingo... just suck. Full stop. Actually, Tangows isn't that bad, but still... blegh.

Edited by vertigosity
For the (few remaining) people (running 32-bit Vista/Srv2k8) who care, it's announcement time!

Me me me!

...and the patcher looks great so far!

Name ideas:

  • Tiize: My current favorite, because I am one, and it's short. Tango+Vize... Tiize.
  • Super Turbo Tango Patcher 6000: It's got street rep.
  • Tango Patcher 6000: DeviantArt's deviation titles don't support the extra length needed for Super Turbo, anyways.
  • Vango/Tista/Tangows/Wingo... just suck. Full stop. Actually, Tangows isn't that bad, but still... blegh.

+1 for Tiize! Kinda catchy ;)

wat do you mean "for those few" what are you running?

(genuine question)

It seems like the vocal minority asking for a 64-bit version is increasing in relation to 32-bit people, who ... are happy? I dunno... and in my warped mind, small minorities often constitute sweeping majorities :blink:

A quick googling now turns up the official ize64 topic at MSFN... which is the topic for them to watch. There's nothing for them here ;)

Hi,

I've been watching this thread for a while, i love the tango patcher idea, but i dnt like the icon sets included in it, however, i quite like making packages for things like this but unfortunately i cannot work out how exactly to create icon packages, could someone tell me how to do this.

the reason i ask is i found this: http://www.jonmega.com/iceman/stuff/systra.../screenshot.jpg

and i love the icons in the system tray so i thought i would create tango/mac icon replacement set.

Can someone tell me please?

also, i no this is the first time i have posted on this thread but,

@ ViperAFK & Daeron Tin?viel: didnt your mother tell you that "I want never gets"

i think after this guy (vertigosity) has designed/coded this, and supported an 8 page thread with details about the lack of time available to him to complete this project, i think the fact that i got a reply is good! (i have read the whole thing!!)

@ vertigosity: i no nothing (other than the languages i use at university) about coding, but im quite good with graphics and innovating. If you can tell me how to create packages for your patcher i would happily create afew for use with your patcher.

(I have tryed software like PSTrayFactory v2.63 but it has to run all the time to have the custom icons, your patcher doesnt, you get the eye candy for free (or no system resources used)

Hope to hear soon

bennec83

P.S. I run 32bit Ultimate (x64 is pointless at the mo, nothing is 64bit so i dont understand y people want to use it - i have ultimate x86 and x64 and 64 is s**t)

Most of the lack of time issues I have aren't really lack of time, but lack of energy and dedication. I work in IT, and after sitting in front of a computer writing code and administrating machines for 5-10 hours a day, I don't really feel like doing basically the same thing when I get home; I just wanna goof off.

There's quite a bit involved in making a shell patcher... my suggestion would be to get some virtual machine software (you can sign up to get a free key for VMware Server), and the source code to the batch-script version of STTP 6000 (currently, the only version) to poke through it, play with the code, and use reshack to poke through system files and compare what you see there to the reshack scripts and resources it uses. I can try to explain everything, but it's really something one has to click into one's head directly, and I think the batch scripts are fairly simple code to follow.

Really great news! But which three icon sets is the preview based on?

Birger :)

Tango, Tangerine, and Gnome.
Very nice. smile.gif

Tiize? I was thinking of Taize... Taizer? wink.gif

Yeah, but Tiize rhymes with things like "cheese" and "please" ... Taize just rhymes with "phase," "daze," and "sleighs" ;) Plus, there'd be all the guys saying "don't taize me, bro," and in France, there's actually a few cities/towns by that name and a religious group named after one of them. Edited by vertigosity

I don't care about the name to be honest, if it is anything as good as STTP 2600 then I'm sold :D !

Scirwode

I've found a new tool that seems to support changing at least icons in win32 binaries, with source provided. It is described to be using win32 APIs, but since it's actually using win32 apis, and not a built-in resource modification engine, if curious to see if it will work on X64, or if there's a similar built-in API for x64. If someone who can work a command line who runs X64 wants to test swapping an icon using it, I'd like to know if it works.

Link:

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/g-m/gdi/iconsa...e.php/c11961__1

Too tired to write a paragraph, have some bullet points instead:

* New release of the Tango Patcher for Vista

* I'm calling it Tiize, at least for the moment

* Exact same resources as 7.07, except with an installer, and a new patcher based on XPero's Vize source code

* New resources come _next_ month.

* Staying up until 3AM on a work night... bad idea.

Too tired to write a paragraph, have some bullet points instead:

* New release of the Tango Patcher for Vista

* I'm calling it Tiize, at least for the moment

* Exact same resources as 7.07, except with an installer, and a new patcher based on XPero's Vize source code

* New resources come _next_ month.

* Staying up until 3AM on a work night... bad idea.

Wow, I'm going to try out now! Thank you for your hard work, it is very much appreciated, especially on a work day :p !

Scirwode

Laptop, I'm guessing? Mine's purple, from a UPS.

I doubt I'll be able to get a large enough sampling to determine which of the several sets of pictures actually go with which types of batteries (laptop/ups/charging), if Vista makes appropriate distinctions itself - so I'll probably end up setting all the battery types to the generic "battery" images, as with XP.

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