Guest Alex (nedge2k) Posted January 20, 2009 Report Posted January 20, 2009 Ever wanted to make a .cab but confused by the tools supplied by Microsoft? Maybe the expense of tools such as OCP's WinCE Cab Manager is too great for what you need? Introducing the first and only online .cab maker, Cab-O-Matic! :) Cab-O-Matic allows you to upload a .zip file containing the files and registry settings you want installed on your device and then packages them into a self-installing .cab file. It's worth mentioning is the fact that this is currently in Beta. If for some reason you get an error or the .cab doesn't install, sling me a PM with the .cab and the .zip used to generate the .cab and i'll sort it :) So, what you waiting for? Go make some .cab's!http://nedge2k.com/cab-o-matic EDIT: For those of you who may be confused as to why you'd want to use this.... Imagine a .cab file full of all your settings, owner details, software serial numbers etc. Granted, you'd have to have a look in the registry to find out the locations of some of these settings but most popular settings are published around the web and if you wanted to rebuild a .cab with custom settings, you could always use a tool like MSCEInf to extract the original .cab and then use my Cab-O-Matic to re-build it :D UPDATE: Cab-O-Matic now supports program menu shortcuts for .exe files, MSTRING and BINARY datatypes for registry settings.
Guest beersoft Posted January 20, 2009 Report Posted January 20, 2009 Awesome!! now if i could think of something i needed cabbing :) ... ... ... pah, lets drink to more cabs! Later Owen
Guest Alex (nedge2k) Posted January 20, 2009 Report Posted January 20, 2009 hehe, how many years since ur last post on here? :)
Guest beersoft Posted January 20, 2009 Report Posted January 20, 2009 hehe, how many years since ur last post on here? :) ok, it been a while, i know you missed me :D /mutters something about being super lazy later Owen
Guest sztupy Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 There is a utility called reg2inf, that (with some minor modifications of the input) will create a cabwiz compatible inf file, with support of hex data and multi_strings too. Used that utility in this offline cab making tool
Guest Alex (nedge2k) Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 yeah binary and multi_string support is coming, i just haven't gotten round to it yet - and as very few people would use them, I thought i'd release it as-is for the time being :)
Guest sztupy Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 yeah binary and multi_string support is coming, i just haven't gotten round to it yet - and as very few people would use them, I thought i'd release it as-is for the time being :) Yes, but supporting standard registry files would be great too
Guest Alex (nedge2k) Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 nah, std reg file layout is (comparatively) overcomplicated. i've designed this tool so that anyone can use it but mainly for people who are uneasy using things like .inf files. this tool will (soon) have all the features of cabwiz but in a simple, easy to use interface. as i said, the only features currently missing won't matter to the average user, hence why i'm not rushing to include them :)
Guest sztupy Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 nah, std reg file layout is (comparatively) overcomplicated. i've designed this tool so that anyone can use it but mainly for people who are uneasy using things like .inf files. this tool will (soon) have all the features of cabwiz but in a simple, easy to use interface. as i said, the only features currently missing won't matter to the average user, hence why i'm not rushing to include them :) Itás overcomplicated but unfortunately the registry exporters use that format to export it out. That's why I said reg2inf can convert from the overcomplicated .reg type to the .inf type :D
Guest Alex (nedge2k) Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 ahh i see where you're coming from now :) well, we'll see how it goes. i may just add support for parsing an exported .reg file - would probably be best (whilst retaining support for the simple format it currently uses).
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