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ruoxiaohai
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Arston, Flatulance, FRT
Dec 2000
time: 05:12
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I'm really not a Windows Programmer-y person, so I would not exactly know, but my guess would be that it's where they store the stuff for all the other mouse icons and the title bar etc, since with almost all windows based programs they have the same title bar (Netscape 6 and others being not of this category).
If it is in the dlls that these things are found, then sorry that I can't help!
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Snog
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That icon you are talking about is a cursor. There is no easy way (yet) to change it.
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Allard HS
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You can extract and later put back this cursor, all other cursors as well as other in-game graphics and gifs in dlls.
However, it only works now for MGE, as that's written in 32 bit it seems, and FW and earlier in 16 bit.
I haven't found a program yet for 16 bit.
Anyway, here is that program. http://www.bome.com/Restorator/index.html .
It's called Restorator.
The cursors are in the civ2.exe file, btw.
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Snog
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That's a nice little program you found, Allard. I new this was possible to do by disassmbling and then using a hex-editor but I wasn't ready to explain this procedure. Looks like I don't have to now.
--Snog
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shamrock
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Los Angeles, CA
Jul 1999
time: 05:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Allard HS on 01-09-2001 03:40 PM
You can extract and later put back this cursor, all other cursors as well as other in-game graphics and gifs in dlls.
However, it only works now for MGE, as that's written in 32 bit it seems, and FW and earlier in 16 bit.
I haven't found a program yet for 16 bit.
Anyway, here is that program. http://www.bome.com/Restorator/index.html .
It's called Restorator.
The cursors are in the civ2.exe file, btw.
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Allard, you genius!  Kudos also to the makers of "Restorator." For those of you interested, the paradrop cursor icon was in the cursor folder of the civ2.exe, resources 514 and 515. Resorator allows you to extract this image, edit it, and reinsert it. Very powerful utility! Thanks again, Allard.
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Allard HS
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Yeah, it's a nice little program. I used it in the first place to extract bitmaps from the Imperialism GOB files.
But it works for most Windows programs, also with civ2, but unfortunately there's not a whole lot to edit.
You can also edit Internet Explorer for instance to display different pictures etc.
A shame it's shareware, but there are cracks for it available on the Internet.
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Allard HS
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There are little "patching" programs that compare two files. Once they found the differences, such as a few bytes from an icon that's been changed between both files, a little program is created of a few kb's that can patch somebody else's civ2.exe file to have the same bytes toggled.
However, given the many different versions of civ2 and the limited things that you can change in the civ2.exe file, i doubt the advantages weigh up to the disadvantages, I think..
I don't mean to be negative, but what use does changing the cursor have? I know that I personally will not change my civ2.exe file with a patch that comes with a scenario.
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Snog
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Sorry, you have to patch the civ2.exe file like they said.
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