thomasw234
Senior Member
CSMenu v0.9 Released
CSMenu v0.9 has now been uploaded, and is considered working (I hope!).
Enjoy!
Thomas.
CSMenu v0.9 has now been uploaded, and is considered working (I hope!).
Enjoy!
Thomas.
Hi. Juste tested, but can you change a little bit the way it looks. I like classic Menu, but mor in the Standard XP way. Perhaps skinning it or rounding the corners could give a better look ?
Take your time. I'm happy with it as it is.Glad you like it!! I really appreciate the thanks
If I get around to starting programming it again, I might add the ability to search when you type (like the new menu), as I find that a useful feature. Also, keyboard shortcuts and arrow keys need setting up! However at the moment I'm focusing on a dBase III C# reader / modifier (which as you've guessed is nothing to do with CSMenu ).
Thanks!
Thomas.
You're probably aware of this but \"The How-To Geek\" has posted a nice write-up on the CSMenu.
Get the Classic Start Menu in Windows 7 :: the How-To Geek
Cool huh? I'm sure that will bring some users your way. I posted a comment there about it.
Yeah it's been acting up badly.BTW is anyone else finding Windows 7 forums to be either down totally or down for maintenance?
For some strange reason, C# (the language CSMenu is written in) won't read in non-ASCII characters from the text files if you use notepad or wordpad. To solve this, you should find a program called EuropeanCharacterEditor.exe in with the settings for the main menu (see the screenshot attached).
For the shutdown dialogs, go to '\CSMenu\0.9\settings_files\shutdown_dialogs' and alter the .inf files accordingly. shutdown_classic is the drop down menu, and shutdown_xp is the 3 icon selection box.
For the problem with the icons, go to the 'ICONS' folder, and re-name them to match the settings menu items. So if you rename one menu item from 'Control Panel.lnk' to 'Something.lnk', rename 'Control Panel.lnk.ico' to 'Something.lnk.ico'.
With the next version I'm thinking of an upgrade tool from v0.9, and also maybe language packs, although these would have to be done by others, as I am useless at foreign languages!!
I could change the name of the items in the inf file, but once again I could not use accentuated letters... I tried copying the European character editor in the folder and opening the .inf file with it : it opens the file then crashes immediately A minor trouble is that the icons are too close to each other for the words Microsoft used in french : Log off becomes "changer d'utilisateur' (change user) and the text is hidden behind the one at its right
Unfortunately that didn't work at all. Guess what ? there's also a trouble with é,è,ê,...
At least for "Network connections" which is supposed to turn in "Connexions réseau" : if I use "Connexions" it works, but the full name doesn't.
That doesn't seem to be the only trouble : "Printer and faxes"'s french translation is "Imprimantes" (no fax in france ?) : No accent in that word but no icon even though I followed your advice exactly
Maybe you could attach to a post the same links and icons with the right names (the two I haven't already named are "Panneau de configuration" for "control panel" and "Barre des tâches et menu Démarrer" for "Taskbar and Start Menu") ?
That would be highly welcomed... either with a tool to do it (as for changing the "log off" menu name in CSM editor), or directly when installing. For the later you can count me in for the translation, just give me a file with the english words and I'll return you french translation (windows way, as sometimes Microsoft didn't used the exact translation, as I explained above)
Thanks again for your great work and for bearing with my complicated language
With the accents, you could try copying the accented characters out of the programs.ini files. As for the length, I didn't think of that!
The accented characters shouldn't be hard to fix, but I'm not sure why the Imprimantes doesn't work
Sadly my main HDD (running XP) died yesterday, which means I've had to wipe the Windows 7 drive and install XP on that.
Also, I'm concentrating on a college computing project at the moment. The combination of both of these means that I probably won't get to work on CSMenu for a few weeks!