Looking for...

[Glaanieboy]

An animation (gif) image of the moving blocks you see beneath the Windows XP logo in the boot screen. Thanks 😉 (it doesn't matter of it's the blue or green version)

 

[sboulema]

with bootxp you can get the image of the blocks, then you can let it move by adding animation to it...

 

[Glaanieboy]

Thanks *tries*

 

[Glaanieboy]

OK, I extracted it, but when I open it, I see a black block, no colors at all. Why is this?

 

[PseudoKiller]

what are you using to view it??

 

[the_music_man]

ohhh when you get the gIf can you upload it here. I want it 🙂

 

[Glaanieboy]

what are you using to view it??

Ms Paint and Paint Shop Pro 8

 

[sboulema]

you can try to make it ble/green, by playing with the rgb channels maybe...

 

[PseudoKiller]

ok you need to view it in an animation program like ImageReady. In anything else it only shows a static image. Neither MS Paint or PSP handle frames. I think there is an animation program that comes with PSP but i dont know what its called.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Alright. I opened it up in Animation Shop 3 (what the program is called), but still, a static black image. After close examination, this image should not be the complete progress bar, but only the 3 blue (XP Pro) squares that move sideways in a white outlined field. When I extracted it in BootXP, it extracted it as a BMP file. When I rename it to gif or png the file still comes out black.

 

[PseudoKiller]

upload the original image... I can not follow what you are doing.

 

[Glaanieboy]

*uploads*

 

[PseudoKiller]

ok... *.bmp's are not animations... you need to upload a *.gif or other image type that does animation.

 

[Glaanieboy]

Well, that's the problem. BootXP (the program I used for extraction of the bootfiles) only extracts the images as a BMP. As I said in my earlier post, it seems that the progress bar consists of 2 images, a background and the three little dots that move sideways. When I open the file with the three little dots, I get a black image, with the correct dimensions.

 

[funky dredd]

Here you go.

 

[thebear]

better late then never...the reason you get a black box instead of the image is because the XP bootscreen uses a non-standard palette that PSP and PS do not ship with. You can download them somewhere on the net

 

[Glaanieboy]

Thank you both!