[Help] How to edit A3 Launcher size

Hi all,

I am posting on behalf of a friend after making suggestion for his server.

Since I can't seem to find any post after searching the forum, I have decided to post here. Do forgive me if I miss/overlook any post/thread that have this question previously.

I would like to check if there is anyway we could edit the A3 Launcher. Edit as in increasing the display area of the lower half html section whereby we usually see the announcements and stuff.

Hope anyone who knows about this can guide me so i can refer my friend to change the size of the display area. If i sound confusing, I have attached a picture of what I am trying to ask. Please review the picture.

Thank you & best regards,
djedmund

There is a launcher tool available on these forums which has a slightly larger announcement area compared to the larger one. You could go try using but.

But if you wanna do it all by yourself - youse delphi or VB to just code up a launcher. That'd fit in great.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

There is a launcher tool available on these forums which has a slightly larger announcement area compared to the larger one. You could go try using but.

But if you wanna do it all by yourself - youse delphi or VB to just code up a launcher. That'd fit in great.

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Hi iNs@nE,

Thanks for the reply and it's great to hear from you again. Well I ain't really good at such stuff nor do I want to create a new launcher.

I just wanted to see what are the possible methods to extend the height of the launcher indicated in green arrows in my attached pictures.

With your experience, can you tip me on whether which method is better if I wish to just increase the display area's height as indicated in the picture and also, may I trouble you abit to write them into steps for me to start on it?

Appreciate your kind attention in this thread.

Thank you,
Djedmund

Me making a whole tutorial for that will take sometime. Just post up the requirement you need for the box and I will try and make one launcher for you.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Me making a whole tutorial for that will take sometime. Just post up the requirement you need for the box and I will try and make one launcher for you.

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Hi iNs@nE,

Once again thank you very much for the reply. Well since a picture speaks a thousand words, I have re-photoshop another picture. This picture includes text and visuals before and after of what i wish to achieve via this thread's request.

Appreciate your kind offer and assistance to actually help in editing this launcher. Please kindly let me know how to apply this launcher to the player's clients as well, as in whether the server side needs to do anything, or should we just patch everyone's client using this new launcher.

Thank you very much once again.
Djedmund

Pointing it to the website will be in a config file which you can edit it at will.

Yes. I can get the job done for you. Already put it in my list. Just will take a couple-a-days as am hung up on some other work too currently.

In the meanwhile, it would be better if you send me the size in pixels. That'll give me an idea.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Pointing it to the website will be in a config file which you can edit it at will.

Yes. I can get the job done for you. Already put it in my list. Just will take a couple-a-days as am hung up on some other work too currently.

In the meanwhile, it would be better if you send me the size in pixels. That'll give me an idea.

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Hi iNs@nE,

Thanks for keeping this item on your list. I am not sure which part of the pixel you are referring to, but instead of waiting for an answer, what I have done is to create another photoshop edit and after expanding the height :

The green area's (html display area) pixel is estimated Width 531 Height 272

Hope this helps, if it doesn't, do let me know what exactly I need to provide.

Appreciate the kind assistance.

Thank you,
Djedmund

Okie. I'll work on yours soon. I'll upload it up on the same thread when am done with the work. :D ...If possible before that - I'll try and post a guide on how to make one yourself.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Okie. I'll work on yours soon. I'll upload it up on the same thread when am done with the work. :D ...If possible before that - I'll try and post a guide on how to make one yourself.

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Noted. One way or another, thank you so much for helping =)

Regards

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Originally Posted by djedmund

Noted. One way or another, thank you so much for helping =)

Regards

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Do you want me edit the logo and etc for you?

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Do you want me edit the logo and etc for you?

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Hi iNs@nE,

I know you have alot to do in your list, so I am fine with the current logo, there is no need to change them. Thank you so much for offering to help in this.

Cheers,
djedmund

Try Using This it is easy 2 edit and change logo and url and all buttons
just edit en.ini and ip.ini
RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

Thanks:juggle: :juggle:

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Originally Posted by pranaydeep21

Try Using This it is easy 2 edit and change logo and url and all buttons
just edit en.ini and ip.ini
RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

Thanks:juggle: :juggle:

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Please read before posting. Look for what he asked. He wants the launcher size edited. Not what you asked for.

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Originally Posted by pranaydeep21

Try Using This it is easy 2 edit and change logo and url and all buttons
just edit en.ini and ip.ini
RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting

Thanks:juggle: :juggle:

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Hi pranaydeep21,

Thanks for responding to this thread. However like what iNs@nE has mentioned, I am looking for help on editing the size of the html display area on the launcher itself. Thus I came to ragezone to seek professional help from seniors like iNs@nE and the rest.

Thanks once again for the post.

Cheers,
djedmund

Hi iNs@nE

Guess you are still busy. Just checking on the status.

Thanks,
Djedmund

Sorry about that but I am very busy these days and my schedule is totally packed up. I dunno if I'll be able to get it done for you but I'll mail Legendary regarding this. So he'll be able to put it up on your server.

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Originally Posted by iNs@nE

Sorry about that but I am very busy these days and my schedule is totally packed up. I dunno if I'll be able to get it done for you but I'll mail Legendary regarding this. So he'll be able to put it up on your server.

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Hi iNs@nE

Appreciate it very much. I will leave Legendary to follow up on this then.

Thank you so much.

Cheers
Djedmund

:mail2::mail2::mail2::mail2:

P.s Try This it is from redyan server it has extended size as u said in ur post
i cant point it 2 ur launcher but i think it is just ok for u :music_band:

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I think this should help u

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Originally Posted by pranaydeep21

:mail2::mail2::mail2::mail2:

P.s Try This it is from redyan server it has extended size as u said in ur post
i cant point it 2 ur launcher but i think it is just ok for u :music_band:

:biggrin::biggrin:

Attachment 42704

I think this should help u

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Hi pranaydeep,

It didn't work at all. Not sure why is it so. And currently, legendary is too busy with his new school project so he wasn't able to follow up. Right now he can't even be active on ragezone and has even taken time off from GM post of his server.

Thus if anyone has any guide on this matter, please do let us know here.

Thanks
Ed

Bump....

Well, the A3 India Launcher is not compatible with the Clientexe files that we are using. So you have very limited choice regarding the launcher, so you can create one yourself!

Or wait for sometime, i will create it for you!

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Originally Posted by cvrdheeraj

Bump....

Well, the A3 India Launcher is not compatible with the Clientexe files that we are using. So you have very limited choice regarding the launcher, so you can create one yourself!

Or wait for sometime, i will create it for you!

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I see, no wonder when i tried on my end, it didn't work. cvrdheeraj, would it be possible to write out a basic guide? I believe it is worth a sticky if its up so we ourselves can try our hands on it to see if we are able to succeed.

Thanks

i do remember someone created another laucher, just a button to launch the client. if im not mistaken it was made by the hades server folks.

btw, I just noticed and I cant believe how easy is to bypass a3.exe:

Private Sub Form_Load()
Shell "C:\ARA3PARTIIIb\Launcher.exe"
End Sub

edit: same doesnt apply for launcher. apparently there must be a thread process with certain properties (to avoid double client perhaps?), because if you create a launcher.exe, a3client.exe will complain.

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim i As Long
i = Shell(App.Path & "\Launcher.exe 3216473353")
End Sub

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Here 3216473353 is the parameter which displays a value of "1.17" in the Launcher.

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Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim i As Long
i = Shell(App.Path & "\A3Client.exe 3216473353")
End Sub

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You can create a form layout of your style. Place the Internet Explorer (Extrinsic OCX) Control on the form. Just create some Command buttons to Connect, Exit, Video, Register and for the Settings you need to Read and Write to INI file. This can be done by using an Class Module or a Dynamic Link Library!

Sounds Complicated??
Chill Dude and wait for sometime, i will complie a Launcher + Updater!

no, it is not complicated at all

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ya it is not so complicated but it is complicated to some extent to people who dont have any idea about programming!

PS: Rudy, do you have Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, if so please advice me is that is good or not and does it work on Win XP?

[offtopic] so far I have tried VS2005 over XP, but since there are too many changes from VS98 I had to stop using it for a while. I lack the patience to learn things from the scratch again. The whole help system confuses me more than the VS98 does. Sometimes I miss the linux man pages philosophy. Sigh... But I will have to start over at some point.

You can have any version of VS installed in the same computer, and they dont mess each other ... except for the debuggers, and those are a mess by themselves.

why does it has to be a MSIE control ?

From my point of view, a good launcher should:

1) check if the server is ONLINE and clearly state that. If the server is kaput, let the player choose to play hearts or spades.
2) check latency ?
3) check some critical files @ client side. Crc32 would be great. also running process which may interfere with A3 (did you get it?).
4) if everything above is OK, then: check if theres updates.
5) show the lastest news from a simple text file (which may be retrieved from a web server, but it doesnt has to be a web page). players are supposed to check the forum anyway ... (mark "supposed").
6) it must be simple and fast. Nothing is more annoying to me than a high resolution picture covering most of my screen and wasting processor ussage when I just need to hit the start button.

just my opinion.

oh my, 1 word: "CONFUSING"

@_@

Well Rudy is describing about an idea Launcher!