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You're not gonna believe this. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I quote "WindowBlinds is the first utility of its kind. It extends Windows XP to have a fully skinnable user including the taskbar and explorer shellstyles. You can change the style of title bars, buttons, toolbars and much more. It gives you total control over your graphical user interface. Includes support for per-pixel alpha-blended skinning on Windows XP and 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit). Obviously Stardock has been readin Bill Gates' latest book "How I made Microsoft Into the C

Reply to Script for changing fontsize in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Thanks again thomassen. I'll try working on a script for file writing pretty soon now. Your help is appreciated.

Reply to State of the Community in Community WinCustomize Forums

My overall effort is to have confidence in my own intentions and actions while recognizing I don't always think first. Keeping a postive attitude can go a long way in keeping small disturbances and problems in perspective as well as minimizing the effect of large problems. We all make mistakes and all misunderstand from time to time. Be more tolerant don't exploit. Besides I can't complain, the community has been pretty okay. Overall my Object Desktop experience has been enhanced by the for

Reply to Was Working and now isnt!!??! in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Who's on first? What? What's on second. Pass a slice a pizza. It's gonna be a long ball game.

Reply to Need Help WB 5 Broken in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Just to close the loop. Got help in chat. ThemeManager download went bad. WB5 went south and had to uninstall ad reinstall WB5. Up and running fine again. Thx all.

Need Help WB 5 Broken in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

My WB5 skins no longer load. I downloaded Theme Manager 2.29[b].010 and WindowBlinds began acting strangely. My Kali WB reverted back to XP. I corrected it last night (reloaded Kali) and then shut-down. Now this morning none of my Blinds will load. What do I do?

Reply to Where, oh where??? in WindowBlinds Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

No. Try the Forums or Chat. Where, oh where do I send my consulting bill?

Reply to Script for changing fontsize in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Yep that did it. Thanks a whole bunch. I ran into problems early on in this one and gave up on changing things in the Control Properties box (I had tried setting the font size there to 14 with no luck, but hadn't put in a font name, oh boy!). Next time I'll try being more patient. The SetFont method may or may not work, bu

Reply to Script for changing fontsize in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Yes you are right this does work and I would continue with my project, but it turns out to be not worth it. And, alas, the reason is the same cannot be applied to ActiveX controls, at least noone has shown me anyway how to set the font size in the much touted ActiveX DesktopX EditBox Control. In fact, the only default set

Reply to Group Therapy and Family Counciling in DesktopX Stardock Forums

Okay, sorry this took awhile. Try this Link https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopxenterprise/resources.asp You may have to right click and do a file save as to get the documents instead of left clicking for download. The following is a link to the MSDN web search I did for VB Script resources. My first attempt to insert links in a comment so, I hope they work. I think you will need to be registered with MSDN

Script for changing fontsize in DesktopX Stardock Forums

Hi all, I've checked all available documentation and I can't find the correct syntax for changing the FontSize. I've tried Object.FontSize = 14 and Object.FontSize = "14". Alas, both are rejected. I have documentation on DX Scripting, but FontSize isn't contained there. Any ideas anyone?

Reply to Windows XP SP2 problems with ObjectDesktop in Windows XP WinCustomize Forums

Ya sure, submit a ticket in the Stardock channel on the left side of forums here. You'll see it listed under Stardock Support and the last entry WindowBlinds. I too have had periodic problems with shut downs and startups. Though there has been no catastrophic failure, I've had to make adjustments. The best workaround I've found is to unload WindowBlinds 5 before shutting down, a small annoyance but, it solves the problem.

Reply to Making the Object’s Picture persistent in DesktopX Stardock Forums

Have you tried storing the new picture in persistent storage. That is as Object.LocalStorage or Object.PersistStorage. I believe these properties exist for that very reason, although I haven't worked with them yet, it's what's indicated about them in the documentation. Once your picture is stored in the object you would then set the new (changed) initial image from Object_OnScriptEnter subroutine. I hope that helps.

Reply to Group Therapy and Family Counciling in DesktopX Stardock Forums

Hi All, hey rabidrobot, thought I'd kick in my 2 cents (just like there's no cents key on my computer keyboard and there is one on old IBM typewriters) things keep on a changing. I found I had to search a number of different sources before I started tracking down some doco around here. I would provide you with a link to the right page, but I'm not that good yet. In any case, rabidrobot helped me get better documentaion from a DesktopX Enterprise WEB page that was more complete (thanks again r

Reply to simple scrip request in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

You don't need a script. On the Object Properties menu set thhe Object Type to Start Menu 2. Just select the Change button from the General Tab and open the scroll bar at the top of the Command type window that appears and set it to Start Menu 2 and that should do it. Your button will then pop-up your windows Start Menu.

Reply to Can't download any of the documentation in DesktopX Development WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for responding. I finally got what I needed. I had emptied all my cookies rebooted - and of all things unloading all the layers of software that absolutely insist I need them and just slide their way into my autorun cycle. Fortunately, I have Tune-Up Utilities 2006 - one of my first Intenet software purchases. Found Stardock (Object Desktop) shorly thereafter and the rest is as you say history. Anyway RabidRobot advised me to try r-clicking and save-as instead of l-clicking for downl

Reply to Need a little more help with script in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Yep that's what I discovered. Paint.net and png format work fine together. I also found out why my attempt to use the magic pink didn't work, I had the transparency on my object set to 80% and when I loaded the graphic image DesktopX didn't recognize the magic pink background. Thanks for all the help. I've been looking thru both the DXScripting and the Developers' Guide PDF's. Both offer some valuable insights into DesktopX. I still haven't figured out why I can't change the FontSize on my

Reply to Need a little more help with script in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hey guys and gals. No worries you did great r-clicking and save as did the trick. Thanks everyone. I should now be more self-sufficient. By the way I tried using Stardocks special pink as a background color for a BMP image to have transparency in DesktopX, but no work there. I guess that's only in Windowblinds. I have only MS Paint and a new download of Paint.Net from some college kids out in Washington. It works fairly well, but I don't know much about using that type of software. Don't

Can't download any of the documentation in DesktopX Development Stardock Forums

Hi, I need help I'm trying to download the supporting documentation for DesktopX in particular scripting and everytime I try my Internet Explorer has to close. I've never had trouble downloading before. I have purchased Object Desktop, Object Dock Plus, a WinCustomize Subscription, Galactic Civiliztions II, some premium Fonts and Blinds, so... how about some help with this?

Reply to Need a little more help with script in DesktopX Stardock Forums

The link you gave me is for an enterprise page and everytime I try to access it (download the doco) my Internet explorer shuts down. I just eliminated all my cookies earlier today. How do I acces this page with the Stardock browser, that might do it.

Reply to Need a little more help with script in DesktopX Stardock Forums

Hey again, I tink i no watt the problemo is. I don't have DesktopX Enterprise version therefore no Doco. Oh well, How much does it cost to upgrade to Enterprise version? If its not too much I might consider it. I have the version where I can make widgets, but not stand-alone widgets?

Reply to Need a little more script help in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I found an example of a Do While statement, basically they look like this: Do While condition statements Loop My other questions remain open though. Thanks for any help you may have.

Reply to Need a little more help with script in DesktopX Stardock Forums

I found an example of a Do While statement, basically they look like this: Do While condition statements Loop My other questions remain open though. Thanks for any help you may have.

Need a little more script help in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Made a good deal of progress on my first widget. Things are looking a good deal better, but can't seem to find how to solve a couple of problems. I generally understand programming, I'm running into problems especially with Syntax. I tried looking at Microsoft's website for VB script info, but for some reason DesktopX doesn't like the syntax I'm using. I'm trying to implement a Do .. While loop. Can anyone show me an example of one? I also will want to write an ASCII text file save as script. Id

Need a little more help with script in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Made a good deal of progress on my first widget. Things are looking a good deal better, but can't seem to find how to solve a couple of problems. I generally understand programming, I'm running into problems especially with Syntax. I tried looking at Microsoft's website for VB script info, but for some reason DesktopX doesn't like the syntax I'm using. I'm trying to implement a Do .. While loop. Can anyone show me an example of one? I also will want to write an ASCII text file save as scri