sViz

sViz

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[img]http://i.smiles2k.net/holidayes_smiles/Happy-Birthday3.gif[/img] Happy birhtday, TBC, and many more!!!!

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Reply to Widget Request in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

My goodness! This is looking awesome, SirS. It's amazing the amount of effort you've put into this. Good work! :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT: :CONGRAT:

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Reply to Ask a Master: RomanDA Speaks Out in Community WinCustomize Forums

Great interview! Thanks to DA and Zubaz for doing this. I enjoyed reading your insights. You're an awesome DXer and a great help to the community. I guess today is officially RomanDA day! :CONGRAT:

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Reply to DX: Any way to set child? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]i did the same thing on the skincast.. i should never assume.. sorry sViz![/quote] No worries, DA (and Zubaz), at least you pronounced my nick right. I guess I should clarify that setting or assigning a parent wasn't the problem. I can do that. The specific problem was setting [B]object.child = "yes[/B]" or [B]object.child = "no". [/B]The distinction was important because, as you know, that allows/disallows the child object to be visible outside the parent's bounda

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Reply to SkinCast - Episode 5 Now Available in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I got mentioned!!! Next best thing to actually being on the show.:) (Prounounced my nick right, DA, but ya got the gender wrong.) We finally get to hear DA's voice. It's so disarming, but then you look at his pic and go....whoa, don't mess with that dude! I pretty much share his opinions on widgets etc. so it was good to hear his insight on dx, how he works, behind the scenes stuff. I'm looking forward to contributing to DesktopX.info. That rss-code-snippet widget is a great idea, and D

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Reply to DX: Any way to set child? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I think he wants to set a parent to a child or some such thing through a gadget/widget script live .. not in the builder.[/quote] Correct. Found a work around....woot! :) I'll post a streamlined version of the fix as soon as possible.

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Reply to DX: Any way to set child? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Bummer...that's frustrating. Looks like I'll have to create two sets of objects; children and not children, which is extremely impractical for what I want to do. ;p

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Reply to Plz help.. need a few Directx scripts in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Did a tut which involved random movement here: LINK The relevant block of code (modified): Sub object_ontimer1 'Get random numbers for object position Randomize min = 1 max = system.screenwidth - object.width randomnum = Int((max-min+1)*Rnd+min) min2 = 1 max2 = system.screenheight - object.height randomnum2 = Int((max2-min2+1)*Rnd+min2) object.mov

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DX: Any way to set child? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I know you can query whether or not an object is a child with object.child. It basically returns true or false. I figured maybe the reverse was possible; being able to set object.child = true (or false) for an object, but so far no luck. Anyone tried this and is it at all possible?

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Reply to WinCustomize Help Center [Beta] Launches! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Excellent layout. I like the fact that the different sections just show/hide instead of loading another page; much faster. A few nitpicks, I guess: There should be a link to Bebi's IRC tutorial to go along with the irc.stardock.com mention, so users understand how to get started. Is it just me or does the 'close' button on the product pop up windows look....aesthetically off? <br/

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Reply to New DesktopX Web site coming in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]Let's kick it off with a Top X widgets of all time.[/quote] Eh, you mean the all-time most downloaded? That has its own stat page, though. Why not some good ones that have been recently uploaded? [quote]WC user stats,(too bad it's buggy),[/quote] Ya mean my WC User Activity Stats? You should probably re-download as I have since updated it. (WC site changes made it go wacky. If you currently don't see any names listed, it's because WC doesn't hasn't fixed that ye

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Reply to What Has Happened To DesktopX? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]I think the problem there is that's the most many of us can do. Those are easy to make for someone who can't script or who's not very experienced, since they are all set up. I have a couple more unique ideas, but don't have the skill at the moment to implement them...[/quote] Well said. There's those who persevere to learn more (like you), and then there are those who look at DX and get excited to start making stuff and then just get frustrated by the process. It takes alot of di

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Reply to SkinCast - Episode 4 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

This is definitely my favorite episode! I could've listened to Jafo talk for a whole hour. It was a very interesting history lesson on skinning, and from a non-skinner standpoint it gave me better insight and that much more respect for the art. Great work guys, and thanks to Jafo for doing this. :CONGRAT: Looking forward to hearing from more regulars on the site.

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Reply to What Has Happened To DesktopX? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote]And, logically, if people aren't using the program, they aren't going to take the time to theme for it. I want to browse for themes and regularly see a couple that are so amazing that it inspires me to see what I can do.[/quote] So true. There have got to be better examples of DX stuff to inspire people to not only use the product but also want to try their hand at making things too. That's what I see happening with WB. You see something really outstanding and go, "I wanna do tha

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Reply to What Has Happened To DesktopX? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

First off, thanks for you great DX themes, Jim. If it weren't for you, that gallery would be dead. The way I see it there's two problems with DX themes. Making an efficient theme is hard work. It has to be pretty much ready to go on startup. That means resolution independence...which as stated before is quite an effort. It means, the shortcuts have to be easy to configure (can't tell you how many times I've seen someone asking how to change the shortcuts/font/labels etc). It

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Reply to New DesktopX Web site coming in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Cool! I was mulling over the idea the other day, and figured to get a complete spectrum (there tends to be more weather widgets submitted in a month than anything else), there might need to be categories. Best Weather/clock/general info widget-- weather, clocks, system meters etc Most creative/original-- outside the box stuff Most innovative/resourceful-- think Vad_M's Weather Lab Best DX theme ...to name a few. The DX galleries are slow so if there aren'

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