DarkBlizz

Quote from: Bt on March 10, 2010, 02:41:03 PM
Guys, it is obvious that he can't, not that he won't

He doesn't know how to yet and neither do a couple of others with nice launchers

Only ones who do are Starcrack and that Asian one and they aren't sharing, so you'll have to either look at butt ugly interfaces or nice interfaces with no teams

For now

starlauncer is open source

custom buttons and check boxes can implement easy with picture boxes and mouseover,mousedown,mouseup events as for the dropdown menus it is hard and i dont have something in my mind

1. straloader has opened his source try to add it to your launcher and leave the lazylauncher
2. use this

Quotehttp://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/TargaImage.aspx

instead of MagickNet.dll than you can embed it in main exe (smaller 26kb only!)

add this toy your code

http://darkblizz.org/Forum2/sc2-tools/starlauncher-v0-3-source-code/

no need for lazylaunch2!!!

nice making, even if it is photoshop

If you make it like this then your competition will lose instantly!!!

@Valkirie
you are doing nice work!!!
the gui is the last part finish the launcher and then experiment with finest gui

Quote from: getITdone on March 06, 2010, 07:52:59 PM
Great improvements from the previous version! Fantastic! Kudos to the two of you, guys. *two thumbs up*

Memory use had been reduced by more than 50% (around 20ish mb on my pc, WinXP SP3) but I'm sure it could still be lowered by I don't know how many percent. *wink*

On the launcher connecting to the net and the error it may cause, may I suggest that you add in the upcoming new "Options" panel a new batch of settings. Upon launch, let the launcher do a check first if it is allowed to connect online or not. If ever you're going to add a "Check for New Updates" option in the near (or far) future, then this definitely should be implemented. The 'check' would be against the settings that was chosen by the app user.

If I may suggest the following connection option tags:
- 'Always offline' -- (obviously, this one doesn't let the launcher to go online at all, even if there is an active online connection)
- 'Always online' -- (the current default behavior of the launcher, up to you if you'll change it on future versions)
- 'Ask me first' -- (this one has a nag screen that will always pop up upon running the launcher, useless maybe to some but I prefer giving users a CHOICE, up to them what they will do with it)

+1

one question the race can be defined by the map or by the base file???

another question is witch is the difference between the map AI and the base file AI?

1. Version Selection not working
2. Saved options not working (the selection boxes not working after restart of the app)
3. Make a form with all options in it eg.

4. Make it load in one instance only
How:
http://i46.tinypic.com/ildu0x.jpg
4. Set form border style to FixedToolWindow

use label instead of a textbox you can adjust the layout parameters and the transparency its the same (almost)

nice very nice

link?

@Valkirie

for the server connection error  posted by Cybertox use an if to determine if the server is online and load it and if the server or computer is offline to load an image in this place something like offline mode

as for the dpi thing (the ugly interface) (ok Fixed in 0.18 i thing)
Select Form > Properties > Layout > Set AutoScaleMode to dpi

also fix the multiple instance i mention in my first post

for the mini map you can use same external utility to extract the image!!!
(the starcraft map files are actually mpq files, then you need an mpq editor)

WinMPQ (Reed the doc file for more info!)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wnx0tnjqynm

Or find source to add toy your program

PS.
Valkirie,
sorry for the pm i missed

Quote from: furiosa on March 01, 2010, 05:05:41 PM
I can not get it to detect lazylaunch :/.  The lazy launch is in the scIIbeta folder right above the launcher, multiple redownloads didn't change anything :/.  Any help?

"lazylaunch2.exe" and "Starcraft II - Beta Launcher.exe" must be in the Starcraft 2 root directory not in separate folders

Quote from: betauser on March 01, 2010, 04:51:02 PM
i can't  make beta launcher to work ..
" This application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click ok to terminate the application."
i've tried all versions
i've tried using diferent versions of lazylaunch..
ideeas?

you need .net framework

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

for the
6. change the drop down stile in your comboboxes
Select a Combobox > Properties > Appearance > DropDownStyle to DropDownList
(makes it more beutiful )


keep walking....