A little app..................

[cpjitservices]

found a little app on the servers which might be of interest to you all on here (or it may not be) if it is PM me and I'll send you it.

 

The company went bust years and years and years ago and we still have this program which not can't be gotten hold of - infact the guy who made it no longer bothers with it.

 

So here it is:

 

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i450/cpj2010/prog1.jpg

 

http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i450/cpj2010/prog2.jpg

 

It sits just above the task bar - It's like the old RM Logoff. Hope this is enough information for you all, the network bit does work I've just blanked the information.

 

If yo want it lemme know.

[cpjitservices]

We had this on our network about 5 years ago when we first put XP in, since then we havent really used it, but it was handy when we did. - Just been lookin on the Internet and can't find this app anywhere looks like I'm the only source with it at the moment Edited April 4, 2011 by cpjitservices

[CISCODISCO]

Shame it doesn't give the IP Address. Ill have a copy email it to hotmail.

 

what's with the pic

 

Thanks chris

[cpjitservices]

The pic is paddy from shameless best program on TV lol - i'll upload it too 4shared and send you the link.

[cpjitservices]

actually it would be quite cool if it showed the IP but im no programmer so I dont know how it would be done.

[EduTech]

actually it would be quite cool if it showed the IP but im no programmer so I dont know how it would be done.

 

It's actually not that difficult to make an application similar to that to be honest. I did one a while back in c# nothing major as i am neither a programmer!

 

James.

[cpjitservices]

I wouldnt know where to start to be honest, I have the program and I am now the owner of it and would like to make a few changes to it. Te guy who made it William doesn't run the company anymore it disappeared years ago, so im trying to edit the network box to show the IP instead of Network Connected

[maniac]

That's identical to the box you used to get on the old RM Net LM 2.0 system (running Windows 3.1) I remember it well when I was at school. It had two buttons exactly like that, although the one labelled network also allowed you to change your password.

 

Edit: And reading your post again, I note that you've already said it's like the old RM logoff, but I'll leave this here to show my general ability for not reading posts fully before replying.

Edited April 5, 2011 by maniac

[mac_shinobi]

I wouldnt know where to start to be honest, I have the program and I am now the owner of it and would like to make a few changes to it. Te guy who made it William doesn't run the company anymore it disappeared years ago, so im trying to edit the network box to show the IP instead of Network Connected

 

You have the source code ? If so what language is this done in ?

[plexer]

I wrote one in vb6 back in the day. I think I called it bnlogoff

 

Ben

[EduTech]

You have the source code ? If so what language is this done in ?

 

If he does not have the source code, then is it possible to de-compile it?

 

James.

[cpjitservices]

nah I dont have the source code - unfortunately! William was a one man band years and years ago and I have tried every method under the un of finding him and understealth but no joys at all!!

 

The program is designed on the old RM Logoff from CC2 and a handy app it is / was, and yes When you clicked Network you could change password, I think it would be handy for that feature to be put into this little app and to also Display IP Address of that machine.

 

I think I'm not sure it's written in VB, I cant do anything with it ResHacer or VisualStudio.

[cpjitservices]

ill give the link in here for everyone to download - if you can find the guy that made the program excellent - but I doubt anyone ever will he and Understealth have disappeared off the face of the earth, also maybe we cold all have a go of tweaking it, it was a free app back in the day and always was so we could run it on our own networks (if you wanted too)!

 

http://www.4shared.com/file/2WxrLOnb/usntlog.html

 

I actually think that if this had the "Change Password" option in the Network Tab we'd see alot of end users changing there passwords this way, I remember when we had it on CC2 it was really easy to show a user how to change there password, just click network and change password and type a new password and viola! - to teach them now hat you have to press control + alt + delete on your keyboard and click change password is a funny thing because people like to see things in front of them and not press keyboard shortcuts

Edited April 5, 2011 by cpjitservices

[mac_shinobi]

If he does not have the source code, then is it possible to de-compile it?

 

James.

 

Think you can to a degree but it's quicker / easier to just re write / re program the app.

 

If you can post back a list of what you want it to do I can put it together in vb6 or the free visual studio vb .net 2010 and upload source with the exe and some folk on here can tidy code up etc ?

[vikpaw]

i use bginfo for showing info like ip and computer name plus a string of other info, basically anything you can retrieve via wmi calls.

those calls can easily be compiled into an app too.

i'm not sure i'd want to go too far making password change easy, outside of the RM way, as when they go back home or to any other workplace it will be back to normal.

it will make a good little project for you to get the free vbstudio and have a play, if you're the same person currently job hunting as it's nice to have on the CV ('i just made an app that , 300 ed-techs downloaded')

[Steve21]

Out of curiosity, does that app stay on top in XP? On Win7 it seems to go behind other forms, which kinda defeats point I guess. Or it is supposed to just be in task bar, and click when needed?

 

Steve

[mac_shinobi]

Out of curiosity, does that app stay on top in XP? On Win7 it seems to go behind other forms, which kinda defeats point I guess. Or it is supposed to just be in task bar, and click when needed?

 

Steve

 

Not done any programming or coding in win 7 so not sure if the API or API's used to keep a form on top will be the same, so win 7 may ignore this and it will just go behind other apps??

[Steve21]

Not done any programming or coding in win 7 so not sure if the API or API's used to keep a form on top will be the same, so win 7 may ignore this and it will just go behind other apps??

 

Aye, but wasn't sure if it was meant to stay on top or not Never used RM "like" systems.

 

Steve

[Hightower]

If anybody wants something similar, take a look here.

 

SJLogoff

 

I wrote it a few weeks ago for our new Vanilla network. Simply does the logging off, as well as providing the user with the currently logged on user, computer name, and IP address.

[Steve21]

Got a little bored so thought I'd have a play around too

 

EdugeekLogoff.zip

 

Not as shiny, or tested as any elses I bet But hey, nice to see if anyone finds any major errors/bugs/not working on XP etc etc

 

Should be attached (Not sure if I need to attach anything more than exe, but works fine here )

 

Steve

[cpjitservices]

Hi Guys, the app is supposed to disappear behind windows and just stay on top of the taskbar, used to be like that in RM anyway so guessing it's the same with this one, if you all have a go at re-writing it I'm sure all versions will be very useful to us indeed.

[mac_shinobi]

SJ Log off requests if you want to log off which is much nicer where as the version Steve has done just literally logs you off with out any input which was a doh moment for me as ended up closing down everything.

 

I will have a go at this now and see what I can come up with.

 

I know how to do the ip address, network is connected and also logging off etc but am stuck on the GUI side of things - any help on how to do a system tray with a popup menu that will make Form1 show / hide

 

Form1 will contain the info ref ip address, username etc

 

I will have the log off option in the popup menu side of things.

 

I remember using NotifyIcon and all of those API's etc in vb6, can't seem to suss out how to do the system tray icon with a popup menu now, frustrating me a bit

Edited April 6, 2011 by mac_shinobi

[Steve21]

SJ Log off requests if you want to log off which is much nicer where as the version Steve has done just literally logs you off with out any input which was a doh moment for me as ended up closing down everything.

 

Well you clicked logoff! But yeah, guess I could make a "Are you sure" option

 

In terms of GUI, Do you actual want a system tray icon? or just like the way I did it, which has no icons, just the menu? It's just aligned bottom right. And you using VB?

 

ps. View your other thread <-

 

Steve

Edited April 6, 2011 by Steve21

[cpjitservices]

hows things going with the Apps guys ?

[cpjitservices]

If anybody wants something similar, take a look here.

 

SJLogoff

 

I wrote it a few weeks ago for our new Vanilla network. Simply does the logging off, as well as providing the user with the currently logged on user, computer name, and IP address.

 

This is a very good version, reminds me of the Logoff on RM CC3 - the only thing missing IMO is a bit in the network part to change password - but I'm using it now it's good.