OSA Kit ver 2.0 and upgrade value?

Hi everyone,

I am going to release version 2.0 of OSA Kit ( http://www.osakit.com ) and it has new features like :
1- You can display your own picture/image for the splash/loading screen.
2- you can edit the 'Loading...please wait' text and you can change the position and font of it or you can even delete it.
3- change the position, height and colors of the progress bar.
4- build single EXE file of your game and media with the new and enhanced OSA Package Maker.

According to this and As you may all know I have to pay fee to sign the ActiveX for another year and notify my customers to use the new signed ActiveX (not neccessairly the version 2.0 I can sign the old one too) unless they issue thier own certificate :

Should I ask for an upgrade fee from people who purchased it? and how much if yes?

Also I am thinking of offering a free version of OSAKit (not sure though) but this version will display a message box stating that this is a free version of the OSA Kit and a 'Powered by OSA Kit' displayed on top of the splash screen. What do you think of this? will that help or harm?

Any ideas you have for enhancing the OSA Kit more would be great!

Thanks in advance,

does it still have that crappy visualbasic download thing?

When I tried it out, it made me download a visualbasic activex AND the player activex thing. 2 screens of stuff...

It still have VB6 runtime but it has a second edition with VB runtime embdded so only on message box appears (certificate screen)!

I am waiting for your suggestions, guys?

Hi Maher,

Got a big piece of paper?

1) Optimise the download > C++ and ATL - Why? XP SP2 downloads the CAB file twice this is too slow with the 1MB file.
2) Fix the flashing Loader Bar - I think I know what the problem is (i'll let you know)
3) Ability to have several background images to cycle through when game loads.
4) As above but maybe embed flash movie.
5) Allow window parameters to be specified in Pixels and not Twips
6) Keep with the current license scheme, a message in a free version would be too easy to hide when you can change background images.
7) Animated image as loader bar - Like Mike does :D

That's all for now

Cheers, Tim.

Thanks Tim for your tips :)


Weird, I have XP SP2 and it only download it once!!!



Well, it changes its color randomly ;)

SP2 downloads it, then you get that bar across the top of the browser window, you click the thing to allow the download and then it refreshes the page and downloads again! This is not quick even with broadband. Does give some good time for advertising though :D