rabidrobot

rabidrobot

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Yet another one...ain't it sad to see all this spam.. Oh, I dunno. Sometimes I feel I just don't get enough spam. That's when I like to visit the WC forums, where people of all types can share their unneeded spam with the less (?) fortunate. This thread also brings up sad memories. You s

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The widget MountainDragon linked is about as good as it gets. You don't have to be that complex just to have a visualization/video window, so just look at it enough to find where it does what you want, and start with that. The key is having a scripted object set to the Windows Media Player ActiveX control. It will be your instance of the player-you can define it's size, if buttons appear, and more in the object's script. Other objects wil

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Your question is both too vague and too general. Are you trying to create a visualization method, that is a manner for graphics to respond to the sound? That's not something you'd use DesktopX to create. Are you trying to have an object display visualizations? That you can do with DesktopX, but you'll need to learn to script--DXPlayer doesn't currently support this. You'll need to choose which media player (iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Medi

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I use DWMX2k4 and have some extensions for it. I just tried one of the Lorem Ipsum generator extensions and it worked fine. I don't have the extension you mention. You don't exactly describe the problem. I do have one problem myself; text next to radio buttons (like when you're defining a new site) is blacked out, looks like a censor bar. I tried excluding DW from WB but that didn't help--have you tried excluding DW and seeing if it help

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Another thread: https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=168&AID=90494#701212 I don't know of any DesktopX stuff that works with MBM, but that doesn't mean it's not out there. Are your other CPU usage monitors working?

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Sometimes files associated with the PDH monitors can become corrupted. It can be weird, because some monitors will work and other won't. Check out the Q "My Perfmon counters have disappeared, been replaced with numbers or stopped working. How do I get them back?" from this Samurize FAQ: http://www.samurize.com/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=1 Or just try this tool, works on XP as well as 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2

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Some stories on a study of people asked to go without: http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002382.html http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/entry/3352572946069014/ Personally I don't feel freedom and anarchy are mutually exclusive. As members of any community we of course have responsibilities, or obligations; the basic being "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." In real life we have many laws defining what we wish to have do

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...for $10 a year you can buy a subscription at themexp.org that eliminates the spyware and adware... In my day we called that "extortion". <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="a

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Hi. It's easy to miss because it won't turn up in your searches (funny name), but take a look at this widget: http://rabidrobot.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SkinID=579&LibID=34&comments=1

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The pack I looked at needed an image defined for the mouse over state. When I moused over, it was showing no image...which meant the mouse was no longer over it, so it showed the mouse away state image, which meant mouse was over...and so on. This caused the flickering. When making these I like to use the "Copy From" button on the States panel a lot. Set up your mouse away, with image and animation settings. Then add a Mouse Ov

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And I'm glad you did, ama02, it bumped it into the Recent Forum Activity pane so I could find it! The forum thread lists do not apear to be updating. Now, if someone who can fix it just happens to notice this in their Recent Forum Activity pane....

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Desktop X objects,widgets, and gadgets should be able to use WMP as their "engine". I'm not sure what you mean by "control" exactly. Which widgets in particular are not working? What errors or behavior in particular are you seeing? Are you making your own? In that case are you using DXPlayer or ActiveX control? Does WMP itself work right for you? If WMP doesn't work, then widgets trying to use it won't work. Give u

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I notice this quite a bit, and agree it is irritating. My uneducated random guess is similar to Aimzzz's suggestion. I've seen these forums mirrored in many places. The Stardock forums, through the WC browser, themexp, if I remember right, and joe user...who knows? My guess is one of those spots isn't sharing with the rest of them.

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A good page of links to the documentation: https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopxenterprise/resources.asp It is hard to put any limitations on what DX can do. Because if you can't do it with the basic functions, chances are you can make it happen with scripts. And if not that you can (I guess, never done it yet) write your own plug in in C or VB. In my experience the power of scripting comes from using the Windows Scripting Host and A

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I don't think you'll need a controller. And trying to get a single variable that may or may not be defined in a member of a group sounds like it wouldn't work, but maybe I don't understand that part. Anyway, if the variable is Dim-med outside of any subs in an object's script, then it can be accessed. DesktopX.ScriptObject("TheObjectWhoseScri

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