reactos/boot/bootdata
Carl J. Bialorucki 43b3dc2034
[BROWSEUI] Refactor settings and sync them between windows (#5496)
This works similarly to how our shell stores its settings from a software design standpoint.

- Add settings.cpp file and ShellSettings structure to load and save settings.
- Add a registry value to hivedef.inf for the locked toolbar state.
  This prevents a bug where the associated registry key cannot be opened or saved to.
- Add new BWM_SETTINGCHANGE window message to refresh the UI on setting changes
  and send it to every open window when saving settings to the registry.
- Add new BWM_GETSETTINGSPTR window message to share the shellbrowser settings
  structure pointer with child windows and toolbars.
2023-08-17 12:14:41 +03:00
..
bootcd [SYSSETUP] Add new Env section to unattend.inf 2022-04-09 01:25:06 +02:00
bootcdregtest [FORMATTING] Remove trailing whitespace. Addendum to 34593d93. 2021-09-13 03:52:22 +02:00
livecd [USERINIT] Add unattend.inf functionality to livecd 2020-05-05 20:54:30 +02:00
livecdregtest Add .keep guard files in order to restore lost but empty directories we had with SVN. 2017-10-04 10:28:36 +02:00
packages [BOOTDATA] Include VMXNET3 driver in optional. 2021-11-13 13:34:50 -05:00
welcome_config
.gitattributes Add a small descriptive comment for the reason why the chosen files are specified in a .gitattributes file. 2017-10-08 15:48:07 +02:00
autorun-bootcd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
autorun-hybridcd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
autorun-livecd.inf Fix remaining text file line endings in the tree. (#18) 2017-10-06 15:00:36 +02:00
bootcd.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
caroots.inf [BOOTDATA] Update caroots.inf 2021-09-05 16:40:53 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt [CMAKE][BOOTDATA] Fix LiveCD does not import caroots.inf into registry CORE-17739 CORE-17735 (#3930) 2021-08-30 13:07:12 +02:00
floppy_pc98.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
hivebcd.inf [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB][REACTOS] INF support fixes. 2018-11-06 00:04:19 +01:00
hivecls.inf [BOOTDATA] "open" actions for 'msstylesfile' and 'themefile' should be REG_EXPAND_SZ since they contain unexpanded environment variables. 2022-01-30 03:51:34 +01:00
hivedef.inf [BROWSEUI] Refactor settings and sync them between windows (#5496) 2023-08-17 12:14:41 +03:00
hiveinst_pc98.inf [PC98VID] Add framebuffer video miniport driver for NEC PC-98 series (#3040) 2020-08-19 00:50:08 +03:00
hiveinst_xbox.inf [CMAKE][BOOTDATA] Properly load Xbox video miniport driver in LiveCD (#2325) 2020-02-10 23:20:12 +01:00
hiveinst.inf [VGAMP] Rename to vga.sys 2022-01-06 20:16:12 +01:00
hivesft.inf [BOOTDATA][INF] Add pt-PT translation (#4926) 2023-02-23 09:51:33 +09:00
hivesys.inf [NTOS:PNP] Assign correct PnP IDs to the devices detected by bootloader 2023-06-11 16:19:02 +03:00
hybridcd.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
icon.ico
livecd_start.cmd
livecd.inf [BOOTDATA] Use the standard "Helv" -> "MS Sans Serif" (#4982) 2023-01-06 13:31:03 +01:00
livecd.ini [BOOTDATA][SETUPLIB] Don't hardcode FreeLdr's UI defaults in the freeldr.ini files. 2022-02-21 02:54:04 +01:00
readme.txt [BOOTDATA] readme.txt: Trivial correction (#4014) 2021-10-09 15:44:09 +03:00
setupreg.inf [BOOTDATA] Don't remove critical device DB for the setup 2021-01-27 05:15:14 +03:00
txtsetup_sourcedisksfiles.ods [BOOTDATA] Use a Win2k3-compatible TXTSETUP.SIF layout for the specification of the files list. 2018-11-05 23:35:12 +01:00
txtsetup.sif [NTOS:PNP] Assign correct PnP IDs to the devices detected by bootloader 2023-06-11 16:19:02 +03:00

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ReactOS™ Version 0.4.x
Updated October 9, 2021
========================

1. What is ReactOS?
-------------------

ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is
compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT
family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7).

More information is available at: https://reactos.org


2. Relationship with the WINE project
-------------------------------------

ReactOS has always intended to work with the WINE project to share as much
programming effort as possible. This mainly concerns User Mode DLLs and
still happens to a degree today. Other areas of cooperation lie in
applications and testing suites.


3. Future compatibility
-----------------------

The ReactOS project, although currently focused on Windows Server 2003
compatibility, is always keeping an eye toward compatibility with
Windows Vista and future Windows NT releases.


4. Supporting other System Applications
---------------------------------------

The Windows NT architecture allows for subsystems, as does the ReactOS
architecture. A subsystem is an implementation of the APIs of another
operating system, allowing ReactOS to run applications from other systems.
We are already looking at subsystems for: Java, OS/2, and DOS and possibly
others in the future.


5. Is ReactOS legal?
--------------------

Yes we are.
All the code of ReactOS has been written from scratch by our developers.
We go to great lengths to ensure that the code our developers create is clean,
same applies to the variety of methods we use to understand Windows internals,
including clean room reverse engineering, using existing documentation freely
available both in books and on the web, using extensive tests (tens of millions)
which apply black box engineering methods against both public and private APIs
exposed by the operating system.


6. Tutorials
------------

Developer and User Tutorials: https://reactos.org/wiki

The tutorials contain more information on the project, compiling and testing
ReactOS - amongst other topics. Contributors to the project are always welcome.


7. Frequently Asked Questions
-----------------------------

Some of your questions may be answered in: https://reactos.org/faq
In addition, the ReactOS forum: https://reactos.org/forum
may contain complementary, yet non-official, information.


8. Authors
----------

This document was originally written by Jason Filby (jasonfilby@yahoo.com)
and is now occasionally updated by various contributors.