Aw, shucks. I'm glad you were willing to give it a closer look Skinned Alive, and appreciate you spreading the word. Thanks too, I.R.Brainiac (best nick ever) for your comments and suggestions! I saw those just today! I am especially glad to hear that you have found the gadget useful. Jafo the eternal optimist. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 align="
Hey wow. I uploaded Bootskin Buddy to DesktopGadgets.com a long time ago (and deviantArt a bit later). It was my third real widget, and I know that inexperience shows. Particularly in the GUI design. I think this is the most response I've had to it since then (even though I tend to shamelessly plug my stuff pretty frequently)! While I'm not in total disagreement with Skinned Alive, I do feel that "flawed with several bugs" is a bit strong. It has been, again, a long time s
Bootskin Buddy has been able to import Bootskins and check them for these errors for some time. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30733603/ You can use BB to check downloaded Bootskins and make sure you never have an ugly boot up. Or upload a broken Bootskin. Or allow a broken Bootskin through moderation.
Woo-hoo! Happy Birthday, and many more, Boxxi.
Dug up an old wall...
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Amnesty Generator is an application that converts Google Gadgets, of which there are many, into Vista Windows Sidebar Gadgets, of which not so many. Note that it is not a developer's tool, just a small utility for regular Vista users to add some of the 3000+ Google gadgets to their sidebar. Since it j
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It all sounds so cool. I'm particularly interested in Code-Name DesktopVista and a universal gadget skinning format. I have been thinking about how something like that might work since Frogboy wrote articles on XAML and Sparkle back in late 2005. Can't wait to see what's being put togther by Stardock.
Some programs, especially those using Java, can't run under Aero,and the system will silently default to Vista Basic when they are loaded. Make sure you aren't starting anything else along with your boot up that would be disabling DWM. Fireworks, for example, forces Vista Basic. This is assuming you have gone to the Appearances Panel and selected Windows Aero. Right Click Desktop->Personalize->Window Color and Appearance If you go to the Appearances panel, and Aero is ava
Here's another
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Clicking on the downloads number on a skin's full view page, such as here: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=892&libid=34 Reports a link of this form on hover: https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=892&libid=34## and displays the particular skin's download stats. Clicking on the downloads number from a gallery view page, however, such as, https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=34 attempts this, javascript:newWindow(400,500,'_blan
And when the Metro Gnome, in a time of personal crisis, leaves his urban home and returns to his roots, visiting the Garden Gnome in ancestral suburbia...just imagine the hilarious confusion and modern exploration of a clash of cultures as they come to terms with their seemingly incompatible value systems and rehash an old family feud that has kept them apart so long. Then the touching conclusion as they realize, maybe, just maybe, they aren't so different after all. Or maybe the Metr
You just right click on any jpeg or gif etc and it will say in menu " create icon with icon developer" Icon Developer will give the option to choose what color to make transparent. Then I use my newly made icon on my OD. Cool! <img src="http://images.stardock
Congratulations, Zubaz. It's about time!
Cool thread, can't wait to see some of the finished releases! I'm working on some meters for Windows Sidebar (just getting started): And also an easy-skin analog clock for the Vista desktop and possibly Sidebar too, is in the works:
Edit: OK, here is another look at the Thumbnail Swingbar View Full Size
Hey everyone at WinCustomize.com, JoeUser.Com, VistaBlogging.com, and any others this might make its way to. I made a tiny application for Windows Vista users, specifically those users who run with DWM Enabled, that is, the Aero theme turned on. It is a smooth pane of glass window that contains a small icon bar, which the user can hover above to magnify the live thumbnails and select a task. It isn't perfect, but I think it is neat
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Vagabundus makes one point that I agree with so much I have to second it. Skinners, including the windowblind and visual stylers, the iconists, the wallpaperists, the object dock specialists, the widget and gadget makers, the media player skinners and everyone, they all do it because it is fun and very much like a game . Tackling a skinning job requires some degree of strategy, a goal, and requires exploration and incremental rewards along the way, as one learns and achi
That looks like you got it going just fine. If you want the specific information you'll have to find each bit you are interested in. You can do that like you have been, narrowing down to the important stuff. Looks great to me, you can use multiple text objects or create a long string with vbTab and vbNewline to emulate a table--once you snip out the key info. If you want to display all the information, consider styling the table you've already extracted with CSS. It's alre
I haven't worked with these personally, they're pretty new I think, but DesktopX has some built in techniques for getting HTML. Look at the System.SendRequest(remoteUrl, postParams, bAsync) sample from DX Docs (Scroll to bottom) There's a sample of how to make the request, and the callback that will have your result. If you can't use standard XML or RSS style pars
I'm sorry. I typed that post in response to a different thread. I'm not sure how it ended up here, but I must have typed in the wrong box. My apologies for the lack of addressing the problem, and confusion! Here is one thing you can do with gadgets. If you have a gadget set to start on startup, I think that's what we are talking about, and you want it to stop loading on startup whenever you close it from the bar. DesktopX sets a gadget to run on startup by putting a shortcut i
I don't know of a way to customize the tooltip. You can script a custom tooltip of your own, or have rollover effects that will display information in a standard location, for example, on your widget. I personally don't use the DX standard tooltips because, last I checked, they always show up under the mouse cursor and are obscured anyway. Also, and I'm less certain on this one, I'm not sure there are reliable means of customizing the default labels for objects--particularly not for i
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The best way to learn which number between 0 and 255 corresponds to which hue will be experimentation. The thing to keep in mind is that we are dealing with a hue shift here, so it matters very much what color your object is to begin with. I have found it very helpful to make almost all my stuff red and use this as what I call zero. I chose this because if you right click on a widget and select properties the Hue Shift slider displayed therein starts and wraps back to