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Reply to Bootskins are increasing....but not with good taste. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I enjoyed bootskins as stepping stones into the world of skinning. But some people certainly enjoy them in and of themselves. But, if you can understand how a bootskin.ini file works to get the background and progress bar images, and all that is zipped into a file--if you can get that concept, you can do any other project you set your mind to. There is a free version of ObjectDock (as a comparison to Bootskin). Basic background

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Reply to Image mouse over script required in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

As usual there are a number of ways you could do this. I think the key thing you probably need to know is how to access objects' properties from another object's script. The particular syntax depends on the property being changed. If you want to change a base property of an object you can use DesktopX.Object("Name").Property. If you want to access a variable or a script defined function, you'll need to use DesktopX.ScriptObject("Name").Property.<br

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Reply to Quick Question in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

It is difficult to answer your question, because it is unclear what you are talking about. Do you mean the Windows Media Player ActiveX control, or the DXPlayer plug-in? The WMP ActiveX control allows you to do anything WMP can do (and any way you want to do it) except, as far as I know, choose visualization schemes. Here is an entrance to the maze they call the Windows Media Player Object Model: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library

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Reply to Games crashing with WindowBlinds running. in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

At least that's how I would have programmed it. Then why don't you go get on that instead of talking out your ass. Your know it all griping has received nothing but polite attempts to help--stymied only by the fact that every suggestion must be wrong because you know better. <TABLE cellpadding=8 widt

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Reply to Jafo's nightmare in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

This has been going around a while. It is important to remember that spelling and punctuation, grammar, etc. ARE important. Without having learned these words, we wouldn't be able to recognize them in this mangled form. Additionally, the "aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy" bit while seemingly adding weight of authority to the issue, is actually not quite accurate. (the grammatical error in "according to a research at..." as

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Reply to please remove in Internet WinCustomize Forums

That was truly amazing. As I watched, the video paused a few times as it buffered, which would normally be annoying, but the freeze frames here only made it more incredible as I had several seconds to try and figure out where everything was--which he does of course in a split second. Very entertaining. I can imagine an Olympic event--freestyle musical interpretation juggling. But, on the other hand, chances are no one else in the world ca

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Reply to Help with Combolist Object in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I don't know that Widget.Preference is the best way to approach what you want, if I understand correctly. Here is an easy way to get a ComboBox on the desktop, and access it by a "button". Create a new object. On the Summary pane, give the object an ObjectID, "MyComboBoxObj" and also give it a Width of 256 and Height of 32. The Height attribute seems to be the way to adjust font size on these. "These" being ComboBoxes, so go to

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Reply to Microsoft's gadgets update in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

What a strange decision to use DHTML and to marry gadgets to a sidebar, even if they can be detatched. The XAML/WPF combination seems at first glance to be tailor made for easily skinnable apps, but perhaps at this point is actually percieved as just too powerful for these type of applications. Additionally, I am still confused on how an application might use XAML files itself at runtime--will some sort of compiler be needed to intepret the XAML, and

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Reply to DesktopX widgets gone AWOL or won't load in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Oh, I'm sorry, I don't use Interent Explorer, and often forget it has that step. What I meant was, go ahead and save the file you download to your hard drive. It is probably a zip file, so you need to extract the archive, usuallly by double clicking then selecting a place to save the contents. Then, once you have the extracted files, there should be an *.exe and maybe a readme. That exe file is either a gadget or a widget. Both gadgets a

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Reply to DesktopX widgets gone AWOL or won't load in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Some of the "widgets" in the widget gallery are actually "Gadgets". Gadgets won't import into the DX Builder, which it sounds like you are doing--they must be run from the exe. Also, many widgets are configured to be run from the exe, and should only be imported into the builder for examination / editing. A reinstall of DX might get back the translator widget.

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Reply to DX Script Help!!! in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Whew. Too many big questions for me to answer them all. But I think your next step is to explore the ComboBox (as drop-down list-boxes are usually called). ComboBoxes are described on pg. 54 of the DesktopX Scripting Guide PDF ( https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/docs/3x/DXScripting.pdf ). To set one up, create a new object, add a new script to it, then Script->ActiveX Control->Select Control... -> DesktopXComboBox. <br

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Reply to WB5 Minimize to tray and Firefox Problem in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

FireFox does some weird stuff with its window. For example, I have a sound set to play when I minimize a window. FireFox does not play the sound--it minimizes in a way that does not trigger the Minimize System Event. FireFox has also had some strange interaction with ObjectDock and showing, or not showing, thumbs of minimized windows. I bet the issue lies with FireFox. I have not tried this extension, but maybe you'll find it u

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Reply to Just some investigatve thinking in Community WinCustomize Forums

WindowBlinds is solid and stable. You may have seen some people posting threads with issues, but also keep in mind the many thousands (more? I dunno) of very satisfied users. Keep in mind that when using some programs which theme themselves strangely or unexpectedly, things will sometimes look a bit weird. But WindowBlinds provides a way of excluding applications like this, so on the rare occasion that you do encounter odd behavior, the f

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Reply to Sidebar in next public Windows Vista build in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I depend on ObjectBar for two shortcut-type toolbars that auto-hide. But a gadget sidebar, especially one almost always on-screen, actually seems much less useful. ObjectBar supports DX widgets already--DesktopX alone could make a more interesting sidebar than anything I've seen from Google or MS, as evidenced by the amazing array of themes available. Sidebars seem like a compromise in an attempt to appeal to the masses. I think

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Reply to Human Rights On the Internet in Internet WinCustomize Forums

As has been said, Google has a "responsibility" to be profitable and increase share value. If Google, in a fit of corporate conscience, refused to do business in/with China, a competitor would take their place. I think the anger is misplaced. The US and other democracies should have national, governmental policies that sanction China for their abysmal human rights record. Companies will do what is legal (and then some) to make money, like

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Reply to What's Going on with ObjectBar 2.0? in ObjectBar WinCustomize Forums

J-Mac ObjectBar is a very useful and in my experience stable application. The spirited discussion here is because so many actually really like OB, and use it. Personally I use it all the time, and feel it is a key part of my desktop. I think some of the frustration is because it is such a potentially great product, but news of, much less the actual 2.0, has been a long time coming. Additionally, those of us who've used OB for some

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