Windows pre GUI user interface

NTDEV
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Hi all,

Is there a method to create a user interface from a driver before the Windows GUI is started? How could I draw the user interface and get the input from the pointing device and keyboard?

Thanks in advance,

Eugenio Barahona Marciel

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At what point in the boot process do you wish to do this: as a driver or as a native application? Also, what level of GUI sophistication are you looking for: something that looks like Windows, or a set of text based graphic boxes like SoftICE used to display if you pressed escape?

mm

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I would like to draw the user interface from a boot driver. The GUI will be a graphical one, with a mouse cursor, a background image, some check boxes and drop down lists.

Eugenio Barahona Marciel

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ebarahona@ya.com wrote:

I would like to draw the user interface from a boot driver. The GUI will be a graphical one, with a mouse cursor, a background image, some check boxes and drop down lists.

That’s a hell of a lot of work. You’ll note that even the Vista boot
screens are all in text mode, and don’t try to do anything with the mouse.

Also, there is no GUI toolkit, so you’ll have to switch to graphics mode
on your own (which means assuming a VESA BIOS), and you’ll have to draw
every pixel by hand.

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