For your personal icon: Go to your account. If you are logged in there should be a tab at the very top of this page that says 'My Account'. Next, when your personal info comes up click on the tab that says 'Update images'. Under 'personal icon' you can browse for the picture file on your computer. When you're done click on the 'update images' button at the bottom of the page. If
Hello again, seldomseen. Some good news. A friend of mine has McAfee security on his computer so I am now able to test on there. I see the problem and it is indeed the code I posted earlier. McAfee treats any script that is trying to read the Registry as "suspicious", triggering a pop-up alert. Thing is, my widget reads the registry every second, thus, triggering a new pop-up EVERY second. Hence the flood of pop-ups. I am now modifying the clock script so that it reads the re
Sub object_OnTimer123 od = now() Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") atb = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\" & "Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias" offsetMin = oShell.RegRead(atb) nd = dateadd("n", offsetMin, od) object.text= "Now: " & (od) & " GMT: " & (nd) End sub The script above reads the registry and finds the difference between system time and GreenwichMeanTime. If you put it into a text
I'm not a McAfee user (or a comupter expert) so I don't know what's causing the problem. The only thing I can think of is a piece of code in each of the digital clocks that accesses the registry and finds the difference between the user's system time and GMT. I had to comb the net to find it here: <a href="http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/date-time-routines-manipulation/how-do-i-convert-local-time-to-u
Do you mean scrolling, like in this tutorial: https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/documentation/Tutorials/Scroll.html Or like in this tutorial: https://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?SID=1&AID=114871&c=1
Okay, I got the tabs in the about menu working. I added the pause/play feature to the city listings. (Time to add SirSmiley to the special thanks list ) Still nothing on those buttons. They work fine for me. I think I'll check them in different screen resolutions, and just for good measure I'll nudge them up 5-10 px. Anyone else want to weigh in? Don't be shy. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Smile.
Thanks for DLing the widget, seldomseen. I'm glad you got it to work. I have no idea what might have caused that glitch. I can't seem to replicate the vertical buttons problem. This is the script that sets the button positions in the Vertical mode or Horizontal mode. It's located in the "color" button object if anyone would like to check it out in DX Builder Mode. Sub pos Select Case desktopx.Object("gtback").state Case "Hmenu" object.top= 7
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll get right on that vertical button problem. Not sure why it works for some and not for others. I do recall having trouble setting the object.top for the buttons they always seemed to be too high or too low. Great suggestions, too. I like the tabs idea for the about menu, and I'll try to work on the ability to pause the city listings. Thanks again! <
IT'S HERE!-- Link This is my latest widget. It is called ATW! Global Clock. Features: -16 color styles -4 Analog clocks (System time and 3 others) -4 Digital clocks -Customizable clock labels -30 Time zones -Display of sample countries from each time zone -Ability to pause display of time zones -Ability to choose how ma
The code below should open My Computer on L-click: Sub Object_OnLButtonUp(x,y,dragged) If Not dragged Then On Error Resume Next Set Sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Sh.Run (Chr(34)& Chr(34)) Set Sh = Nothing End If End Sub Normally you would put a file/folder in this line like this: (Chr(34)&"C:\Program Files"& Chr(34)) But if you leave it empty like how I did at first then it automatically opens up My Computer.<
Good call, SirSmiley. I found DA's tutorials after completing my 1st object. But I certainly used the tile/stretch feature ALOT in my newest widget. After reviewing my latest widget again, I found that images, in general, account for the majority of the file size. I made a custom about menu/tutorial for this widget. It had up to 12 images. After I reduced the amount of images I went from 1.26MB to 777KB! So from now on I'm going to keep the amount of images to a minimum.
, I should have made those wallpapers PNGs! Thanks for the tip, Koasati. I did attach the wallpapers to the objects and I had a friend try it on his computer. The wallpapers did not load up. It's because the object that sets the wallpaper uses the full path to the files on the user's computer (the wallpapers were on mine), so obviously the paths were non-exsistent on his computer. I gave up and decid
I've downloaded several widgets, objects, and what have you, and I noticed that the file size usually never exceeds kilobytes. My first upload, which I thought was a simple enough application, ended up being 3 megabytes! So, I thought I'd ask the experts: What are some tips to keeping the file size low? I use PNGs for all my images. I try to have as few objects as possible. I try to use a minimal amount of scripts. I figure my sloppy codes
Nice! Thanks for the link SirSmiley! Just what I needed.
I used to do the 100, 200, 300 thing. Until I realized that not everything in the example scripts have to be used 'as is'. Every now and then I might use Timer123, though.
It seems that there is no way to center the text in a message box with vbscript. Sorry.
Excellent work, DA! Your tutorials are definitely appreciated. I'm well into DX scripting myself (more like a "graduated newbie"), but if I had these tutorials when I first started out in DX, there would have been much less frustration. A while back on the boards I tried to help out a fellow who was asking about the date/time thing. Your tutorial explains it much better and you have much more streamlined scripts. Great job! <img src="http://images.star
Nevermind. It works again. When all else fails restart your computer.
My tool tip text appears underneath everything. I don't know how this started to happen. The only way for the tooltips to appear correctly is if I set the object z-order to 'always on top' or 'desktop level'. Needless to say, that's not what I want. Has anyone ever experienced this problem? Any suggestions?
I've been wanting to do a fact object as well. I haven't gotten around to it yet. I do have a rough concept (don't know if it'll work yet) 1. Have an object with a timer that checks the time/day and when to pop up the fact box with a new fact. -Something small that looks like an icon on your desktop. -Manually, on Left-Click it should make the fact box visible. 2. Have a fact box object.(basically a background image) It remains invisible until it's time
It's up now! Comments welcome.
I would like to know the answer as well. I've tried attaching the image to the object. You know, when you go to the 'summary' tab and click on 'custom files', but it didn't work. I just included the wallpaper in the zip file instead.
No problem Hillbillyoct19. If I figure out anything else I'll let you know.
Hey thanks, you guys! I combined your suggestions and it worked. Here's an example script: Dim items items= Array("item1","item2","item3") Sub object_OnScriptEnter control.listindex = object.PersistStorage("lastselected") End Sub For x = 0 To 2 control.AddItem items(x) Next Sub Control_OnSelect(Item, string) object.PersistStorage("lastselected")= item End Sub Of course, it kept giving me an error every
I can select an item from the box and everything works, but when I reload DX Builder the box displays the 1st item on the list instead of my last selection. The item IS selected and the results are correct but the display doesn't show the correct item. Does anyone know how to make the combo box keep your last selection on display? Thanks.
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