Remember Chad KB's startup screen? It seems to be rotting in the Downloads section, doing as much good as its creator did, lol. But anyway, I looked at the application's source, and since its completely HTML inside I modified it with some Javascript so that the startup screen shows up only once and then quits. May I show to you guys? Or do I have to contact our good friend Chad?

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Let me describe that a little better... before I modified it, the startup screen looped forever (the aqua progressbar restarted) until you pressed alt+F4. Now the startup screen goes once and then closes, as it should be on a real Mac.

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I think it sounds cool but is there some reason why you don't want to ask Chad about it? I'm confused (again).

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This story goes back a little while. Chad was an avid poster at this palce until he was found cpying this site's skins, and then he got banned; but he did leave a legacy with his 400 posts.
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maybe I'll try contacting him, then see what he says

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Oh ok, is he the Aqua-guero guy? I think I read something about that either here or Aqua-Soft. Gotcha. :Wink:

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I was wondering what ever happened to him...

Anyways, I remember how that looped. Are you going to release the modifed version?

Yes, I'll release the application in this thread, while I wait for permission from Chad to do more. Make sure this file is run in the same directory as the graphic "loaded.gif"; which you can get by downloading Chad's original files from the "Downloads" section.

Attached Files

Mac_OS_X_Startup_Beta.zip (1.2 KB, 60 views)

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It's none of my buisness, but I don't think you should be releasing any files that have been modified from his originals until you have full permission from him.

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What do the admin have to say about it then?

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Hey, if its HTML then there is no need to get permission from anyone. And I downloaded this and see its an EXE. Did you create the EXE? If so, don't worry about it my friend.