muzahidkhan / viorb

Designed to be the last start button replacement tool for all versions of Windows

ViOrb

Designed to be the last start button replacement tool for all versions of Windows

Background

I wrote a lot of the original code a long time ago and it was for a completely seperate project, ViStart. It was messy and sloppy but as long as it worked, that's all I initially cared about. I've since tried to tidy up the code to make it more presentable. In the process of doing that I also ended up recoding a lot of it and rediscovering how useful comments would have been.

Libraries

• Windows Unicode API TypeLib - Windows API, stores all the API declarations
• Karl E. Peterson's - HookMe - A clean and elegant means of subclassing
• vbAccelerator - GDIPlusWrapper - vbAccelerator's GDIPlusWrapper used for OOP GDIPlus

Getting Started

• Clone the repo
• Ensure you have Visual Basic 6.0(Service Pack 6) installed
• Grab the WinU TLB - extract the TLB and add as a reference to the project
• Grab the HookMe zip - extract the files (IHookSink.cls, MHookMe.bas) over the placeholder files (IHookSink.cls, MHookMe.bas) and disregard any other files
• Grab the GDIPlusWrapper zip - extract contents to "GDIPlusWrapper"
• Add the "Clear" function from the Prototype folder to the GDIPlusGraphics class then compile it and add the resulting binary to ViOrb Release/GDIPlusWrapper.dll

Comments

I rarely get time to update these projects so I am releasing them here in hopes they can be useful to someone :) I don't expect anyone would care to continue development. I am not against them doing so. If I ever got time I would have liked to have recoded all my projects in C++.