Kirk
Tue Jun 20 12:07:51 CDT 2006
Gotcha. Thank you very much for your help.
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
com> wrote in message news:uFS7NsIlGHA.4512@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> You can *clone* stuff in the PUBLIC folders with no problem. I replace the
> shell, NetUI, and several other Microsoft-provided PUBLIC things on our
> devices. You just don't want to modify them in-place. You can copy them
> to the OTHERS folder, to a separate folder just under PUBLIC which
> Microsoft didn't provide (MYCOMMON or something), or to your PLATFORM
> folder. The problem is not replacing Microsoft code with your code, but
> trying to do it "on the cheap" right in the PUBLIC folder.
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Kirk B" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> news:eXhIljIlGHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Done. Thanks.
>>
>> And FWIW, I think I'm going to avoid messing with PUBLIC and will solve
>> my problem by fondling NDIS instead.
>>
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>> "Dean Ramsier" <ramsiernospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:Orf4tWIlGHA.2200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> It's equally bad to modify anything in any MS provided directory. Some
>>> directories may be more prone than others to be updated, but that's
>>> irrelevant.
>>>
>>> The bad data base entry is because you have a space in the path name.
>>> The build tools can't handle that. Delete the build.dat file to get rid
>>> of the error.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dean Ramsier - eMVP
>>> BSQUARE Corporation
>>>
>>>
>>> "Kirk B" <a@b.c> wrote in message
>>> news:edmu8OIlGHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Since NETUI and WZCPOPUP are both in the PUBLIC folder, is it equally
>>>> bad to modify either of them?
>>>>
>>>> Also, if I modify one of them and then rebuild/sysgen, PB gives me an
>>>> error like this:
>>>>
>>>> BUILD: [00:0000000004:ERRORI] Bad database entry: Copy of wzcpopup.c 41
>>>> 0 1C45F9D9BB43800
>>>>
>>>> Is PB checking hashes on the source code? How do I override this?
>>>>
>>>> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam
>>>> DOT com> wrote in message
>>>> news:%23Uu8zKIlGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>> It's allowed, certainly, but an enormously bad idea. That folder
>>>>> *belongs* to MS. This isn't the only example or even the worst, but
>>>>> they might come along with a QFE (you *have* updated your code with
>>>>> the latest updates to the OS, right?!), at any time and change the
>>>>> code in, say, NETUI to fix a bug, add a feature, etc. Well, if you
>>>>> have modifications to that file, your modifications just got destroyed
>>>>> and not in a way that's quickly and easily detectable and undoable.
>>>>>
>>>>> This has been discussed a lot and you can read the archived messages
>>>>> via GoogleGroups, if you want more examples of how doing things
>>>>> what-seems-like the easy way will stab you in the back later.
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul T.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Kirk B" <a@b.c> wrote in message
>>>>> news:uFVDwDIlGHA.1320@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>>> Out of curiosity, why is modifying PUBLIC verboten?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no
>>>>>> spam DOT com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:ezG6F%23HlGHA.3776@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>> Don't modify things in the PUBLIC branch of the tree, ever!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In this case, modifying NETUI, not WZC, is what you'd need to do,
>>>>>>> yes. You can arrange it so that, so WZC itself, it appears that it's
>>>>>>> displayed the dialog and you've tapped some innocuous option (OK or
>>>>>>> Cancel), while actually not displaying anything at all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks for posting the info. I'm sure that will save someone else
>>>>>>> some work later...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paul T.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Kirk B" <a@b.c> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:%236Pcks$kGHA.5036@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>>> Is it possible to enable WZC but disable its GUI?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think I just uncovered a sad flaw with WZC: If you uncheck
>>>>>>>> "Notify me when new wireless networks are available", then WZC sets
>>>>>>>> tmTf (periodic scan freq) to INFINITE. Which is bad if you want
>>>>>>>> your system to automatically connect to preferred SSID's without
>>>>>>>> any popup notification. And if you use WZCSetContext() to set tmTf
>>>>>>>> to something reasonable (like 30000ms), then the next time you boot
>>>>>>>> WZC sees that value in the registry and decides to check that
>>>>>>>> "Notify me..." checkbox. And you certainly don't want users to see
>>>>>>>> the network dialog if you're a kiosk application.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So I need a way to keep the WiFi periodic scan at ~30sec while
>>>>>>>> disabling any sort of WZC GUI. I'm a platform builder noob, but I
>>>>>>>> imagine that I can fix this in wzcpopup.c by either (A) prevent
>>>>>>>> calling SetContext or (B) always set pfPopup to FALSE. If I fix
>>>>>>>> this, will it automatically get included when I build/sysgen, or do
>>>>>>>> I need to do something else (hopefully not involving makefiles).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks.
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