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Reply to TESTING...any volunteers? (The Official Release ) in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Respond here, then? I tried out ATW!GlobalTime, and it looks great. It really does look cool, I like several things very much, such as the multiple colored skins and ability to show or hide the different bits of info (Digital, analog, location). I only ran as a widget executable, but everything seemed to work. I found the Daylight Savings Checkbox a bit confusing - I was expecting the clock to tell me it was time to add or subtract an hour. When

Reply to Microsoft: A lot of work ahead for CSS compliance in Microsoft WinCustomize Forums

Internet Explorer 6's, and to a much lesser extent IE7's, CSS display bugs are one of those things that just drive me nuts. Website designers should be able to write standards compliant CSS, etc., and be confident that software claiming to be a "browser" will display it correctly. IE7 is much better than IE6, but I guess the attitude at the MSIE team that they ARE the standards hasn't changed much. Although, to be fair, I think the guy might have just been talking about changing one

Reply to Microsoft Consults David Brent for Training Video in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Heh heh. Halfway through first one. He's still got it, this is funny stuff! I think both versions of The Office are great, but Ricky Gervais' David Brent will never be topped. It's cool to get to see more of him.

Reply to Need help creating bootskin in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

The line "left behind" the Progress Bar image will be the color that is in Slot Zero of your color palette. If your image editing software won't let you set this, you can try my Bootskin Buddy gadget which lets you edit the palette. You have to plan your images beforehand to take full advantage of changing Slot Zero, avoiding duplicate colors in the palette, and so on.

Reply to The new deviantART.com in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

I like the new look, layout, and functionality for the most part. I just found the Next and Previous buttons last night, which let you run though someone's gallery like a slideshow. Although it is infrequent that I want to see too many items from a single gallery. My biggest complaint is a "dumbing down" of the "Message Center". Before the change, you could be surfing dA, and at any time look to a spot and know how many Journals, Polls, Hot Topics, Personal Notes, Comments, Forum Rep

Reply to Scripting Counters in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Once you've added the Performance Meters 2 Additional Ability, which will display as Graphical Performance Meters in the box, you must click on the name "Graphical Performance Meters". Then you can click the configure button. This will bring up the Performance Meter panel, and you can set up your meter. You don't have to use images, you can set the meter to display using solid colors as well. The Chart Type dropdown lists the various graphic displays. You can also set it up

Reply to Scripting with ActiveX controls in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Doh, sorry double posted.

Reply to Scripting with ActiveX controls in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The Windows Media Player ActiveX control is a byzantine morass of simlarly named and akwardly accessed properties and methods. Here is the entry to the labyrinth: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/controlreference.asp I don't want to scare you, but it can be intimidating at first. Once you have worked with it a while, things start to get easier as you get the hang of what's going on. The Event Wizard, under the Script menu in the DX Sc

Reply to Management Questions.... in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I don't know about the legalities involved, as to which version of DesktopX you would need, (specifically DX-Professional or DX-Enterprise), but I am fairly certain you could get what you want done using DesktopX. You can see some themed-suites of Performance Monitor and Shortcut / Launcher type objects in the DesktopX Desktop Theme gallery and the DesktopX Widgets gallery here at WC (my first coming soon!). Implementing such a thing is fairly straight-forward. For example, most</

Reply to Close gadget in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The DX Scripting Guide will be of much help in finding these DX specific snippets. Like Zubaz's method, which is a perfectly good way to do it, the method in code will also only actually work when the project is running as a widget. But the code itself couldn't be simpler. Widget.Close

Reply to Simple Question in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hmm. Sounds like an interesting project. The pull downs in the Object Property menus are a bit more complex--they don't list themselves for example. But I think you could get a list using a For Each, and then decide if you want to read that into an array and then into your list, or just into the list directly. Page 12 of the Scripting PDF describes DesktopX Enumerators. I had this pointed out to

Reply to Object Edit Feature Suggestions in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

This is with 5imple by daniloOc . I don't want to pick daniloOc out, but I knew it happened with his skins. Other skins do it too. Older, non WB5 skins seem fairly immune. Might also be Firefox related, believe it or not. Switching focus from FF to OE makes the toolbar grow every time (on susceptible skins).

Reply to Object Edit Feature Suggestions in Life, the Universe and Everything WinCustomize Forums

* When you scroll up or down a document and your cursor happend to move outside the area of the scrollbar it will scrollback to it's original position. Very annoying. I agree on this one in particular. Even though I am aware of the problem, I'll sometimes be focused on getting the section I want visible, then release the mouse button only to hav

Reply to Handles in Community WinCustomize Forums

seldomseen, I thought that might be your origin. Abbey is a favorite of mine. Hayduke Lives! I came up with 'rabidrobot' in an attempt to never be told again my first pick was already in use, but also not have numbers or "_.-^frou-frou^-._" as it was called back then. Obviously it wasn't as clever and original as I'd hoped (HHGttG and Radiohead use phrase "paranoid android" and I was frustratingly scooped on myspace, gmail, and rabidrobot.com). But I grew fond of it, a

Reply to Microsoft: Push Vista back! in Windows Vista WinCustomize Forums

I can certainly sympathize with the developers trying to have a working product ready at the time of the Vista release. The "shifting sands" analogy is appropriate, as the very framework developers would be using to create their new or updated apps has been in a near constant state of flux. And if you think keeping up with the waves of Messenger, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and Office betas etc. is a pain, think of the poor developers who must piece together their development envi

Reply to "always on top" question in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Yep. blajano actually contacted me through email, and that is essentially the exact sample I gave him. Don't forget a ' Called when the script is terminated Sub Object_OnScriptExit ' Clean up on exit Object.KillTimer 666 End Sub <img src="http://images.stardock.com/wc/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmi

Reply to A Little help with Combo Boxes? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I could not get my test combobox to remember the selected item, nor display it. That may depend on other factors, such as how the items are added to the list, I did not test. If your box is indeed remembering the last selected Item, just not displaying it, maybe a line like: Control.ListIndex = Control.ListIndex In the OnScript

Reply to creating a slide show with a drag and drop in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I wasn't suggesting "using" a script without permisssion. Just pointing out that there existed a widget which had very similar functionality to what the original poster described.

Reply to creating a slide show with a drag and drop in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Give Tiggz's OMNI Slideshow a look.

Reply to Mac lookalike Picture widget in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Don't miss CerebroJD's ObjectDock Backgrounds if you like this neat taped effect: Tabbed Standard

Reply to Widget Size in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I don't think anyone has come up with a way to easily resize a widget with unknown structure. Depending on the components of the widget it may not even be possible to resize, on the fly. So, it is difficult to do "automatically", but if you are willing to spend a little time in DXBuilder, you can select the objects and alter their size one at a time there, and repositioning as well. This would be no problem for basic widgets, but for more complex widgets it might be even easier to jus

Reply to "always on top" question in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

When two objects compete for "Always-on-top", they behave as normal windows, in a sense. The last one activated, or focused, will be on top. If you want a widget to be Always-on-top not only of windows, but of other widgets, the taskbar, ObjectBars, and so on, I know of only one workaround. In your script set a timer, and however often (2-4 x a Sec should be good) you want, recall the Object.OnTop. You can see an example in <a href="https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?

A Plea for Thread Subject Clarity in Requests WinCustomize Forums

I realize this is preaching to the choir, but I'd like to ask that when people make a new forum thread they make an attempt at giving the thread a title descriptive of the subject. For example, I'm pretty handy with DesktopX, and I enjoy helping, or trying to help, people who have a question about it. On the other hand, I don't know jack about making Windowblinds and have personally given up on trying to respond to Bootskin threads. Even if threads are created in the proper ar

Reply to What kind of custom file icons, would you like to see in an IconPackage? in Icons WinCustomize Forums

Please consider adding *.xaml files to that list. Here's what the default icons look like:

Reply to Widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

It looks to me like Josephs is using AveDesk for those shortcut icons. AveDesk Download Site