Customization of 1st Page Styles

[BoR|S]

Or a better suggestion, to make a menu thru which you can costumize the look of the program...

[BoR|S]

You mean a program that will be based on CSS? Kewl idea! I'd really like to see that happen! (I once have made a Pascal progie that is based on an external file with graphical preferences, this allowed me to change skins :p )

[BigTony]

Just wondering...even tho it's probably been posted:

What are they writein FPXP in (im assuming C++)?

[ByteWizard]

I had a peek at the .exe file and it is hard to tell. The code has been run thru something called

Neolite Executable File Compressor

I am not familar with this program but suspect is is something that compresses the executable file to make it smaller as stored on your disk. This has a terrible downside in my opinion... Each time you execute the file it must be de-compressed in memory before execution. This could explain the delay noticed by some when starting 1stPage. Typically .exe files are not good candidates for compression because they contain very little repitition.

Since I am not familar with this program, it could be simply a program that attempts to make the executable more efficient, but this is usually done at the source level.

Perhaps someone is familar with Neolite??

[ByteWizard]

I didn't find any reference to the code compressor. But the guy who wrote PKZip (Phil Katz) the forrunner of WinZip offered a product at one time that would compress .exe files and they would decompress as they were executed; an offshoot of the self-extracting zip file. It faded out and died as far as I know.

[joey]

ByteWizard wrote:
I had a peek at the .exe file and it is hard to tell. The code has been run thru something called

Neolite Executable File Compressor
...
Since I am not familar with this program, it could be simply a program that attempts to make the executable more efficient, but this is usually done at the source level.

Unfortunately, NeoLite does not have the ability to make an executable "more efficient". It is typically used to reduce the executable's size and (as advertised by some companies who make similar products) to "...protect programs against reverse engineering by non-professional hackers".

Personally it's not a tool I would use, since all of the code from a compressed executable must be decompressed into memory upon startup -- not a good idea if your system is low on resources. :eek:

[dugsmyname]

When attempting to decompress the 1stPage.exe file using the NeoLite Executable Compressor software the following error occurs:

ERROR

File:C\Program Files\Evrsoft\1st Page 2000\1stPage.exe
is compressed by NeoLite maximum compression.
This file cannot be uncompressed.

[OK]

unless someone out there has an 'uber'decompressor, I don't think it's going to happen... the documentation "readme.txt" states that:

"· NEW Reversible Compression. For reversible compression use the 'Compress' button, for non reversible compression use the 'Max Comp.' Button Files compressed in a reversible way are not as small since not as many optimizations can be made as when a file is compressed with the irreversible method."