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Post 7 made on Saturday January 31, 2009 at 04:48
Jon Welfringer
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I have packed a couple of EXE & INI files into a ZIP file for e-mailing.
Anyone who would like to use this should e-mail me at the address in my profile.


Here is the README.TXT from the ZIP file I have created:
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The original Philips files that will be discussed are listed below for reference:
[ProntoEdit] = C:\Program Files\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0.exe
[msf.exe] = C:\Program Files\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0\Simulator\msf.exe
[appli.exe] = C:\Program Files\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0\Simulator\appli-win32\bin\appli.exe

Under normal operation of the simulator, the executable [ProntoEdit] calls the executable [msf.exe] which in turn calls the executable [appli.exe]. What needs to be done to modify the simulator behavior is to intercept the calls to both [msf.exe] and [appli.exe] and change their parameters on the fly. This is accomplished by the use of "stub" files that are used in place of the original executables.

The original operation of the simulator has executables called in the following order:
[ProntoEdit] ---> [msf.exe] ---> [appli.exe]

After renaming the original msf.exe and appli.exe to msf!.exe and appli!.exe, you can then copy over the new supplied versions of msf.exe and appli.exe.

The modified operation of the simulator will have executables called in the following order:
[ProntoEdit] ---> [msf.exe] ---> [msf!.exe] ---> [appli.exe] ---> [appli!.exe]



The folder [C:\Program Files\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0\Simulator\] should contain
the following files (in addition to any others that may already be present there):
msf.exe = new executable to intercept calls to the simulator.
msf!.exe = Philips provided msf.exe that has been renamed.
msf!.ini = new config file for setting runtime options of msf!.exe

The folder [C:\Program Files\Philips\ProntoEdit Professional 2.0\Simulator\appli-win32\bin\] should
contain the following files (in addition to any others that may already be present there):
appli.exe = new executable to intercept calls to the simulator.
appli!.exe = Philips provided appli.exe that has been renamed.
appli!.ini = new config file for setting runtime options of appli!.exe



The following entries are contained in the INI file and can be modified for experimentation. For normal operation, all entries should be set to YES.

PROCESS_ENTRIES=YES
Setting this to YES will turn on parameter processing and setting it to NO will turn it off. This is useful for when you want to see the unmodified parameters that ProntoEdit is using.

AUTO_RUN=YES
Setting this to YES will cause the "stub" file to call the original file without intervention. Setting this to NO will cause the "stub" file to pause to show you the command line parameters prior to execution of the original file.

AUTO_CLOSE=YES
Setting this to YES will cause the "stub" file to automatically terminate when the simulator terminates. Setting this to NO will cause the "stub" file to pause to show you the command line parameters that were used. This is useful for modifiying parameters and re-launching the simulator without having to quit all the way back to the ProntoEdit program. This is mostly for testing parameters only.


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