Skarny

Skarny

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DesktopX 3.5 Pro download location? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hi, sorry - I probably didn't look hard enough - but at present when I download DesktopX Pro from my product download page it only downloads v4. Can anyone tell me how to get 3.5 instead? 4 didn't seem to let me make/use any scripting at all (ie. Pressing the Script buttons just does nothing). I don't have any 3.5 archives :-(

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Reply to png on magic pink in Tutorials WinCustomize Forums

When you paste a PNG with alpha transparency components over the pink background, the transparency of the png allows the pink to 'show through'. But it becomes changed from 'magic pink' to some other shade of pink. So using that final image in a program which uses 'magic pink' as a transparency colour will not hide the mottled pink colour that now shows through the image. The 'trick' I guess is to realise that the alpha transparency is going to have to show some kind

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Reply to Getting back into skinning in OS Customization Stardock Forums

I haven't dished out for Windows 7 yet...why? Because it costs 80% more (based on a direct exchange rate) than in the US. If someone wants to help me in some way...well I'd switch and then...and THEN I'd be uber pleased to switch to DesktopX based on whatever beautiful engine Windows 7 might provide. The object model as it was is pretty darn good, and the scripting options are still actually very open and flexible. If you could leverage some of the WPF image presentation and manipulation feat

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3d rotation (dynamic - sorta) video in DesktopX Development WinCustomize Forums

Video of dynamic rotation on a DesktopX Object. Notice that it captures child objects and includes in the animation. The edges look clipped, but it actually does show the perspective properly - I trimmed the video too much. It's TEST0.AVI after the link - didn't realise SkyDrive shows the whole public folder from the link.

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Reply to Australia Weather Widget scripts - data source in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

As a follow up - I've received confirmation of my copyright permission to use/redistribute the data. It has some requirements of use but they don't sound as strict/intrusive as the US website which has previously been used for weather information. Of course it requires acknowledgements and cannot be associated with profit - I wonder if that makes it an unwanted solution by Stardock/Wincustomize if it means any widgets using the data would not be able to be sold for profit. I

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Australia Weather Widget scripts - data source in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hi, I don't know if Stardock/Wincustomize admin would read this. I've asked Australia Bureau of Meteorology to get access to their weather data for the purpose of DesktopX gadgets/widgets. What I would like to know is, if I get permission would Stardock/Wincustomize consider writing a refresh server side script to pull the data from a link I provide on an hourly basis which would then be used as the primary source link for any resulting gadget scripts? I know

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Reply to What would you like to see in DesktopX 4.x? in DesktopX Wishlist WinCustomize Forums

Set an object's as a 'contained child' via script - for e.g. make setting IsChild property to true actually make it a contaied child. The 'clever' auto parent adjustment where if you set an object as a non contained child of another object it gets attached to the parent of the parent instead - actually makes it hard to deal with objects in an 'expected' way when the actual parent information is lost. Your windowfx drawing layer allows animation of window 'textures',

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DesktopX / WindowFX merge functions? in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

I was wondering if Stardock had the power to use windowfx transformation 'engine' with DesktopX objects (which I believe are actually windows) to allow us to do some nice animations or effects with our desktop programming.

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Reply to Problem with Dream display in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Try going to media center video advanced settings and toggling 'use high quality mode'. This changes the render type used for video playback. My other thought was your Nvidia video settings maybe with colour shift or something - but you said you tried there.

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[Old App] Screen Paper (scrpaper.exe) in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

ScreenPaper (scrPaper.exe) - file linked (readme.txt is original document provided with tool) I do not use Windows Vista, so I have not had the pleasure of using Dreams, however I would like to bring back from the dead an old freeware application I used to use for getting an 'animated' wallpaper Screenpaper lets you select a screensaver installed on your system and display it on the desktop behind your windows. To help people use this application I hav

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Reply to Object States in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Yes but you have to know what they are before you test them, and you would need an 'index' label to your states, or something you can vary on each cycle. A powerful point behind a collection is that you don't necessarily know what it contains. One thing which would tell you if an object has a state or not is if DesktopX threw an error if the state didn't exist. BUT I DON"T want that, because I use this non error response to allow me to do many things in my creations, and there

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Reply to Flipping over a Card in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

reduce the number of frames to make it faster. I don't think you could make it faster through any other code method, the way it's written it should do each change in width as fast as the computer possibly can. You will note I don't have any obj.Width = obj.Width - widthAmount type commands, I found the double reference to an object in this way tended to be slower. I am 'fairly' confident using a 'get property value to variable, adjust value of variable, reassign value

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Reply to Flipping over a Card in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

The above will give you an instant 'flip'. You could use an animated state to display a 'flipping' card image, but for a quick result which might work try this: Sub animStateFlip(objName,newStateName) If DesktopX.IsObject(objName) = False then Exit Sub Set obj = DesktopX.Object(objName) frames = 5 objLeftOriginal = obj.Left objWidthOriginal = obj.Width widthStep = objWidthOriginal/frames For a = 1 to frames newWidth = obj.Width - widthStep

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Reply to Object States in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Don't think there is a way to cycles through the states or get a list of states for an object. You can use Object.States("").property to set a value for all states of an object however. There is also the possible complex method of accessing the theme.ini (theme2.ini?) in the Object.Directory folder and parsing it to get the states of an object. But that would not pick up any states that have been added since last save. And probably wouldn't work for any packaged themes

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Reply to DTX [Beta]_3.49[b].009_6.18.2007 object alignment in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I second this 'change' as affecting numerous objects I have created. Adjustments of width and height of an object which was top, center, right (whatever) aligned would occur from the anchor point. As you would expect. This made it very easy to create auto centering, expaning animation etc effects. I agree it could be for cutting down processing, but the places where I used it had minimal resource usage effect and the changes I have to make to implement this functionality back into objects is mo

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