Hello everyone, how are you? First of all, I’m new here, and I didn’t see anything about this type of post in the rules, so I believe I’m not violating any rules, right? I don’t know if I can mention the name of the software here, so I chose not to, unless it’s allowed. That’s why I censored the logo image that contains its name, and the text with its name.
It’s a POS system, I think only available here in Brazil. I can’t find the logo to change it. In fact, there are almost no images. I tried accessing the images with Resource Hacker, Resource Turner, and similar programs, but nothing worked. The bitmaps simply don’t appear.
Searching online, I found two identical software programs. I downloaded them, and when I checked, it was exactly the same system/software. Someone pirated them and managed to change the images and some other system features, but unfortunately, they released pirated versions and also offered them for sale with a trial mode. So, yes, you can change it; I just couldn’t do anything, not even with the help of AI.
I want to use it to manage my business. I’ve gone back to working with food delivery, and this software is very good. With it, I can control incoming and outgoing funds, manage inventory, and do many things in a much more organized way than manually. I used the trial version, and it’s very good and easy to use. I want to modify it to put a different logo and system name (my store’s name and a different logo on the interface). But it seems impossible; even in the pirated versions I mentioned, I couldn’t find the logo or change the window texts. In their folder, there’s a logo.bmp file; I changed the image and nothing changed, I removed the image and nothing changed, meaning the logo.bmp in the main folder is useless.
I’m not a programmer, but I’ve enjoyed tinkering with these things since I was little, and I’m always tinkering with everything to modify something. But this software is impossible; even with AI help, I couldn’t find the logo that appears on the interface or change the texts. Can anyone help me?
Unless it literally downloads them each time on application startup without caching the images locally, they’ve got to be in there somewhere. They almost certainly wouldn’t be embedded in the main executable as resources (which you already checked for anyway), so search for common image types: *.bmp (which it evidently already uses), *.png, *.jpg, *.gif and perhaps even *.tga or *.ani. There’s plenty of other possibilities, but those are all less likely.
With that said… I really wouldn’t recommend running a legitimate (let alone an illegitimate) business on pirated software. Have you at least considered looking at some of the freely available open source solutions?
https://github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos perhaps?
There’s a live demo at:
https://demo.opensourcepos.org/
User: admin Password: pointofsale
There’s a fair amount of options: https://www.softwaresuggest.com/blog/free-open-source-pos-software/
So, I don’t have a physical store; I work from home. The system will work completely offline; I’ve even blocked its internet access.
Furthermore, I’ve tested many, and none of them pleased me due to the amount of unnecessary things on the screen and their complexity. This one is lighter and more attractive, besides being much easier to use and having various functions. I’ve even tried systems on my PC and in an online browser, but either the interface was too complex to work with, or it only worked online. This one has a user-friendly interface and is very easy to use. Besides, I’m a pirate… so you understand, right? hahaha
I just need someone’s help to find this logo so I can change it whenever I want, as well as change some window texts. I never thought a software could be so complicated to find a logo for.
Sure. I can see how the relative simplicity would be attractive to you given the use case, and so long as you know how to backup (and restore) whatever it uses for a database, I guess that’s fine. However, if you can’t do basic things like define new products without essentially hacking application assets, well, that’s… significantly less attractive, I would think.
But you’re the one who knows what will serve your needs best, obviously. Personally I wouldn’t want the potential liability of having to use the reporting features of a non-supported unlicensed piece of software when a tax auditor comes calling.