Custimazation of Renegade
By KNiGHT*TiMä [VOiD]

1) [Full Screen Logon WITH Shuttle Menu]
2) [Hex Editing Tips]


                   1)  Full Screen Logon WITH Shuttle Menu

  When I first started running my board, all I had was a logon screen from 
the prompts that were givin directly from Renegade. I got a little more 
creative when I started to modify the prompts to fit the atmosphere of the
board. Then I decided to use a shuttle logon screen so I d/l'd one of those
Matrix Logon Screens. I noticed that after I entered the funcion to input 
your handle and password, it displayed the original renegade prompts that I 
made in the string editor. I thought it may ad a touch to your board if you
were able to have the shuttle WITH the full screen logon screen. If you have 
already hex edited your full screen logon coordinates and have made your ansi,
do that first, then read this. It's really very simple all you have to do is
edit the menu that supports the 'logon to BBS' command. Once you are in the
menu editor to the correct option (mine is MATRIX-2.MNU) insert another 
function right before the option that has the menu key '2'. After you have 
inserted it, null out the names of your new option, and for the command put
FIRSTCMD, your option will be the name of the ansi that you have created for 
the full screen logon. REMEMBER, since your using the shuttle menu, you have 
to hex edit the coordinates to the SHUTTLE PROMPT, not the regular one. After
you have completed all of this, what will happen is, once a user presses the
option from the shuttle to enter his/her handle, before is displays the 
prompts, it will display the ansi. Basically, all your doing is adding a 
first command option to your 'enter handle/password menu' thats displays the
ansi... good luck



                   2)   Hex Editing Tips

  This is email from Killean of TRiBE about Hex editing:

This is the hard part.  I had drawn a little ANSI text file as my
"window" for the handle/password information, and using those
[A's and [C's I just positioned each string to fit inside my
"window".  BUT, you have to do so in a way so as to use all the
available space in the string (unless you change that first
'length' character to something smaller -- you CANNOT make it
larger though).

I have found out that if you have to take up all the available space, all you
need to do is enter the hexidecimal statement of "FF" What that is is a blank.
After you entered your escape and ansi codes, just fill out the rest of the 
space with FF. It will blank out the rest of your string and eliminate 
problems. It is VERY important that you save your STRINGS.DAT AND RENEGADE.OVR
before doing this, becuase something may happen if you do this process 
incorrectly. Make sure you dont surpass the end of the string into another.