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Reply to Bill Clinton, He is the one responsible for September 11th. in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

Of course you will come to this conclusion, that Bill Clinton is at fault. Why wouldn't you? You've re-written history to fit your strange desire to hate a president for having an affair more than the president who lies in order to convince you to let him send your children to war. Your skewed version of history is so off (yet prevalent), that it even has it's own page on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/rumors/clinton.htm Which I hope

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Reply to Smooth Button Fade using Hue & Timers Script in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

A clearinghouse of links to DX related info would be nice. But in the meantime... Here is a link to the Wiki established by CerebroJD: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/DesktopX There are *.doc versions of the User's Guide and Scripting Guide available from this page: https://www.stardock.com/products/desktopxenterprise/resources.asp Don't let the "Enterprise Edition" scare you, these guides are useful for all versions, BUT!!! these are older files, and D

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Reply to O.k., so.......... in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

I am having a really difficult time getting used to the new forums and the way it will format and reformat a post on editing. My apologies for that big block of text. It isn't how I typed it. But I gootta rtun, can't fix it now

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Reply to O.k., so.......... in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

oooooo-kay, so... Anyway, I too was disillusioned with, in particular, Beta2, and to a much lesser extent RC1. I wanted Vista to totally wow me, and I also wanted every little annoyance I had with XP (and no arm flexing here, I run XP-Home!) gone. But some annoyances remain, the System Sound and Mouse Cursor selection GUIs are unchanged, for example. On the other hand, I can understand that these _are_ little annoyances, things that very few, relatively, users of the OS will ever even

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Reply to Discovering Desktop X: What’s your story? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I'd been to WinCustomize several times, having found it through the former DeskMod site, which featured some pretty neat skinnable software. I saw DesktopX, and even played with it a bit (see my "Knotty Bits" lol ), but I was more into Rainlendar and Beatnik. I made some truly terrible Rainlendar and Beatnik skins, which I wisely never relesed to the public (like sViz's widget, my first projects always turned out HUGE for some reason [Still an issue for that matter]). Then

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Reply to Question and in need of some assistance. in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

You might consider ObjectBar. One of the many capabilities of ObjectBar is to create an improved version of the standard start / taskbar. ObjectBar skins can also usually be easily set to automatically take on the appearance of the current WindowBlind, or any WindowBlind at all! So you could create your super-startbar then give it the Touch of Glass skin, while changing your windows through WindowBlinds. An eagerly anticipated update to ObjectBar is expected this week. Some things may hav

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Reply to Homosexual vrs Heterosexual in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

What if being heterosexual is a "chemical imbalance"? What if they could make you gay with a "little itty bitty tablet"? And if that doesn't work, maybe some kind of gene or radiation therapy. Or cosmic rays. Maybe prayer. And I assume, as long as the homos are taking their pills or praying away the gay, you'd all be fine with them adopting and raising kids in that "normal" environment. If the contributors to this thread are examples of the product of this supposed

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Reply to Hue Slider Script in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Great tutorial, and thanks for sharing. I was contemplating putting something together about sliders myself, but you covered most of the important stuff, and with pictures no less! I would like to share a more generalized script, though. Which I also refined and pieced together from the documentiation and samples! This script has an advantage in being able to return negative numbers as output values, and I think keeps the math as simple as possible. So, here goes, hope it is OK:

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Reply to In memory of September 11th in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

WebGizmos said: Everyone is entitled to believe what they want... One can take tolerance of other's opinions only so far. There is a true reality , though that is unwavering and unaffected by what some few but vocal believe. This "entitlement to believe" does not at all grant equal cred

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Reply to Forcing windows to stay above ObjectDock in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

One handy way to block off an edge from maximized windows is with DesktopX. On the Desktop tab of the DesktopX Builder Settings panel, click Workarea. Enable the option then set a number of pixels to reserve on each edge. You may have to experiment with dock icon sizes and taskbar height and such to find best number to put here. I hear WindowFX can do this too, and some older windowblinds can be edited to do it automatically. Windows that are not maximized will be able to go over the

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Reply to In memory of September 11th in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

A sad day, few days really, of reflection. I am struck recently that there is no stronger argument for peace, to a rational mind, than the brutal horrors of senseless violence. Fanatics know no reason, though; it's hard to debate someone who's expecting eternal blissful reward for what would otherwise be obviously insane behavior in this life. If ideals like equality for women, 100% literacy rate and high-quality secular education, and indeed democr

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Reply to Gadget works first time, corrupted on reload. in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I've seen similar behavior. Not sure of the cause. Do you mean by "no persistent variables" that you are using neither Object.LocalStorage, Object.PersistStorage, nor Widget.Preferences? I know LocalStorage just doesn't take with gadgets, never tried PersistStorage. The Widget.Preferences can also be corrupted in memory and even in the preferences.xml file if you create, check and adjust multiple Widget.Preferences in a single subroutine. But, if you aren't using those, then

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Reply to Scrolling Text in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I think scripting will be required. I have used a technique in my last two widgets that I think works pretty well, but it is not the only solution. Also, it reverses the scroll direction when it reaches an end of the scrolling text (rather than repeating the text and scrolling in the same direction). ' InfoCrawl settings ' Initial crawl direction Dim direction direction = "Left" ' How many pixels to crawl each iteration Const CRAWL_STEP = 1 ' Mil

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Reply to Question... in New Users WinCustomize Forums

I say go ahead and flood the new-in list. It'll only be filled with your items until the next batch of bootskins and screenshots are added, and then your (fantastic!) stuff will be visible to everyone in the appropriate gallery.

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Reply to What ObjectDock features would you like to see? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

In previous versions of ObjectDock we could add "foregrounds" to our skins for dock backgrounds, which would draw on top of the icons, but otherwise behave very similarly to the background image. Recent versions of OD draw foregrounds differently than in the past, tiling (in a single direction) now rather than stretching, which makes them nearly unusable. Indeed, I don't see any mention of foregrounds anymore in the v2.0 RC1 SkinningTheDock.txt, so maybe they've been abandoned. <br

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