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Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DeadlyDose" reply="5" id="2293050"]My only problem is that; I like to use Desktop Themes, which already have the Weather Widget coded into it. I could easily make a desktop or objects/widgets without the weather but i like to use Themes already made. Is there any possible way to take out the Weather Widget in the Theme without loading the theme? Due to the Zipcode error I cannot edit the Theme when loaded, all i get is that most ever annoying error [/quote] <p

Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

^ sorry, By workarounds I meant nothing illegal, I simply meant making a base code to work with another site, or finding someway to edit the code such that it gets the liscence for us through weather.com. They seem to offer a free service, all they want is that we sign up for it.

Reply to Invalid zip code when running weather widgets in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hi guys, I've been looking at this issue all day and it seems like the change is with the weather.com xml format requirements If you're using the same base code as I seem to be using here, the weather widget requests data from this url: http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/ 95670 ?cc=*&dayf=5&unit= m&rnd = 0.6765406 where it genererates bolded values on the fly. If you type

Reply to Automatic DesktopX Menu Backgrounds Drop Layer? in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Hi Automan, I have seen your post and am giving it some thought right now; I'll post my reply later tonight hopefully! EDIT: Ok, so I read over your post but i'm not quite sure what you're trying to do but maybe you can help me to understand; So are you trying to make a... widget of sorts, which AUTOMATICALLY creates shortcut objects which lead to certain program that a user uses most? Or are you trying to make it such that

Reply to Automatic DesktopX Menu Backgrounds Drop Layer? in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

I think i might be able to shed a little light on this First create an object and attach this script to it; this will be the parent object Dim strname Dim i Const link = "link" Sub Object_OnDropFiles(File) i=0 Do i = i+1 strname = link & i Loop until DesktopX.IsObject(strname)=False Object.SetTimer 33, 100 End Sub Sub Object_OnTimer33 Object.Killtime

Reply to Help with object resizer please in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="RomanDA" reply="2" id="2211824"]i know whats happening. go into all the text objects, etc and change their properties for "relation" and change the "activation" to "none" this will make it transparent to the mouse. what is happening is that all objects are setup to have mouseover capabilities, and when you "stack" items on top of each other the mouse has to look at all the objects as it passes over them. so when you make the parent object have a m

Reply to Help with object resizer please in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Anyone have ANY suggestions? If this is the wrong place to post this, let me know.... (sorry for double post)

Help with object resizer please in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Hi again, Consider this; I have one parent object (image) with several text objects as children of said object I have a script attached to the parent object which is; Const var = 1.3 Sub Object_OnMouseEnterEx(obj) For Each elem In Desktopx.Object("parent").Children elem.left = elem.left*var elem.top = elem.top*va

Reply to Looking for help making a battery meter object in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Okie Its done, I attached a timer to it to check for update as per Roman's suggestion. Here's the script in case anyone reading this wants to make one too ^_^ 3 objects; 1 main battery, Sub Object_OnScriptenter Object.SetTimer 6000, 60000 End Sub Sub Object_ontimer6000 strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\wmi") Set colItems = o

Reply to Looking for help making a battery meter object in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

lol sorry for the seemingly stupid question but, is there a way to get the code to automatically update AS SOON AS there's a change in the capacity and as soon as the discharge state turns to True WITHOUT using a timer to have it manually check everytime? Or is the only way to attach an update timer and to find a middleground time for the update? I mean you can attach a timer to the battery to have it update all the statistics but if you make it quick, it will take up a lot of needles

Reply to Looking for help making a battery meter object in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Awesome! Thanks alot this is really helpfull ^_^ I haven't tried to attach a script to the object-- I just assumed that it was possible to do it with DX's built in plugin but that makes sense. EDID: BTW, I figured out the formula to relate the values to time remaining; just add these lines to the code: If objItem.PowerOnline = False Then object.text = object.text & "DischargeRate: " &

Looking for help making a battery meter object in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Hi all, First, I would like to apologize; I realize this section is for posting tutorials but I figured that if someone replies to this question it will pretty much be a tutorial for others so here goes: I'm using the graphical performance meters 2 plugin and I was wondering if anyone could help me with how to make a battery meter which ALSO tells the time remaining on battery life when the laptop is NOT plugged in. I've tinkered around with it for a bit

Reply to box keeps telling me to order desktopx 3.0 today in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

No, you can't but this IS a great program and you can't expect such a program that comes with support, updates, not to mention being the best in it's class, to be free. The way I see it, it's completly understandable for stardock to ask for 14.95 for the license to a program AFTER letting you try it out for six months with no strings attached.

Reply to box keeps telling me to order desktopx 3.0 today in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="angus1949" reply="4" id="2047660"] talk about getting mixed replies lolYou just got information from a Stardock employee with years of experience with their software and a 14 year old.......who do you think you should believe? The way these fine programs are written and maintained cost money, so no one should expect "freeware" to be without ads.[/quote] Sorry XD! I didn't realize that was a stardock employee! But thank you e

Reply to box keeps telling me to order desktopx 3.0 today in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

O.o talk about getting mixed replies lol well, if it IS a bug, would you happen to know how I can fix it? It is rather annoying...

box keeps telling me to order desktopx 3.0 today in DesktopX Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

Hi all, I'm kind of new here to this forum so i'm not sure if this post is in the right place or not; if it isn't I do appologize and hope that someone would point me to right place to post this question; ANYways, I have windows vista and desktopX 3.5 (not pro, just the one you can download for free from stardock) installed on my system and have a regular desktop theme, which I have set to load up whenever I turn on my computer. The problem is that everytime I start de