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Softwrights Stop Button... Technical Details (Nerd Notes)

This page contains details that some people may find useful. If you're a nerd, you'll love it. If not, you'll probably be bored to death.

File Descriptions

Softwrights doesn't believe in littering your valuable hard disk. That's why there's only a few compact files for each edition Softwrights Stop Button. All the following files (except unwise.exe & install.log) were created from scratch by Softwrights to ensure fast performance and compact size. All files are installed in one place (directory).

SSTOPBTN.EXE (Lite Edition=60K bytes, Multimedia Edition=368K bytes) is the 32-bit executable file. These tightly-coded programs are programmed in C (not inefficient C++). Direct calls to Windows API are made instead of indirect calls through easier-to-use, but inefficient tools like MFC or Visual Basic. These file are also compressed and remain compressed on disk. They auto-decompress in RAM before program starts.

SSTOPBTN_USER.DAT (1K bytes) is a custom-made database file that contains your options. This file is automatically created the first time that you run the program. The file is the same for both editions of Softwrights Stop Button... So you can use either edition with the same data file.

SSTOPBTN_CUSTOM.AVI (31K) contains a silent single-image animation that can be edited/replaced by you and optionally appears before shutdown.

UNWISE.EXE (81K bytes) is the 16-bit (to keep size down) uninstall program.

INSTALL.LOG (2K bytes) is the installation log that tells the Uninstall program which files, icons, directories, folders, Registry entries, etc. to uninstall (remove).

Note: If you have doubts about Softwrights'superior software engineering, take a look at the tiny size of our files ... Hardly anybody makes programs this efficient.

Programming Details

Softwrights abhors the popular trend of, slow-as-molasses-in-Antarctica, bloated, programs & disk files. Our programs were crafted in the C programming language for peak performance, compact size, control, and portability. C++ was not used since appropriate tests on the leading C++ compiler available at language-selection time produced programs that were bigger and slower than C.

Thanks to tight coding, our programs are extremely compact and require no extra .DLL files like the big, bloated VBRUN.DLL file required by programs written in Visual Basic.. To conserve your valuable disk space, the executable file is compressed, and remains compressed on disk. It is de-compressed in RAM, as needed.

To ensure quality, one source file is kept for both the Multimedia Edition and Lite Edition of the program. Compiler preprocessor commands (conditional compilation) are used to separate edition-specific code.

For high-performance and efficiency ... C (not inefficient C++) and direct calls to the Windows API (not inefficient Foundation Classes) results in programs that are among the fastest, smallest programs ever made. Writing everything in C (including a custom-built database) and direct calls to the API are a pain to program. But the results are worth it since our programs are not bloated with inefficient and/or unused code as in most other products that take the easy way out.

If you doubt these claims, look at the the file size of any other Setup program on any disk that you have ... You'll see the difference that Softwrights' fine craftsmanship makes.

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