Right now the messages would work when wpkg.js is executed, after the user logs in. This situation is fine by me because I have certain domain groups assigned to at least a certain wpkg base profile (e.g. students, teachers, office staff) and so wpkg would need to be executed after logon. I have the client machine(s) set to not display the desktop shell until the logon scripts have completed and because of that all they see is a wallpaper background while wpkg is running (no sense in giving the user the idea wpkg is finished when it isn't, especially if an auto-reboot is required). I thought during this time if wpkg was performing any tasks, a useful message(s) could be shown so that the they do not assume the system has hung or has crashed.
Also, I thought it would be especially nice to have a message displayed if an automatic reboot was needed after installing a new application/upgrade/removal, something like "rebooting in 5 seconds..." The other reason it would be nice that is specific to my situation is I use a program called Deep Freeze to freeze the hard drives from users making unwanted changes. This program requires reboots to thaw/freeze the hard drive, so a rebooting message here would possibly be handy as well so they do not think their system is flipping out with all the rebooting and all :) I will post some screenshots this evening. Right now it's fairly simple and is currently used for informational purposes as I said before and not as a method for acquiring user input. On 6/18/08, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mscdex schrieb: > > (...) > > So a few days ago or so I set out to code something in jscript that would >> accomplish just this. My solution makes use of Internet Explorer automation >> and works for IE5.00 through IE7 (on both Win2k (no/any service packs) and >> WinXP (tested with SP2)). The code could use some more work and I may clean >> it up and continue work on it in the following days, but I was mainly >> concerned about it displaying the same for all mentioned browser versions. >> >> My message box solution right now features the ability to simply specify >> an (optional) "title bar"/header as well as the message text. Both the >> background and foreground colors of the header and message text can be set, >> and the message text can be optionally centered. >> >> One last thing, on systems with IE7 installed I had to incorporate a >> workaround to get messages to look like they do in IE5 through IE6. The >> reason for this is because with IE7, there has been a security check put in >> place to keep scripts on websites from resizing less than 250px wide and >> 100px tall (and from setting certain unallowed window positions). >> Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a way to get around this using pure WSH >> scripting so I wrote a tiny little AutoIt script (and compiled it to exe >> form) that bypasses said limitations and it only executes when IE7 is >> detected. >> >> If anyone is interested in what I currently have, let me know and I'll see >> if I can host it somewhere. >> > > I suppose it will work when the user is already logged in? Wouldn't it be > annoying to the user? > > You may check something similar - see > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/2008-February/thread.html#2628("wpkg > via Group Policies" thread). > > Do you have any screenshots etc.? > > > It could be also worth to make a separate page in wiki for such > user-contributed stuff. > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org >
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