Neil Banfield

Reply to WindowFX 2 Sneak Preview! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

craeonics: An early WB had a similar effect, but the WindowFX 2 effect is going to look nicer (thanks to most people having better cpus)

Reply to Microsoft on skinning, Windows, and the future in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

You have to remember the next version of Windows is not due until late 2003/2004.

Reply to Here we go again. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Porting from a screenshot is harder than just using the original source graphics included in the skin directory. Anything that makes it harder seems like a good thing given the number of rips that have occured over the past 6 months.

Reply to Here we go again. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You may be glad to know that we are working on a method of making skin rips from WB skins much more difficult. Obviously it will be optional, but I hope it will reduce the number of ports without permission and help protect the skin authors rights. grayhaze: Making ports now might just give them the impression that they can threaten to port skins and then they will get high quality ports made. I.e. exactly what they want.

Reply to Anyone else having problems with WB 3.3a? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It sounds like a corrupt skin is in your WB dir and thats what is causing the crashes. I would also suggest uninstalling WB, deleting all files in your WB dir (in case any are left over) and perhaps removing all WBD files (in the skin dirs) Then reinstall 3.3 and it should all be happy again.

Reply to WindowBlinds 3.2 enhanced released in WinCustomize News JoeUser Forums

If you are having problems then delete all WBD files in your skin directories. 3.2 seems to be accepting 3.1 WBD files and then getting upset about it. As for ObjectBar issues : its probably an issue in the OB WB skin loading system and not directly related to a new WB build.

Reply to WB - Title bar missing pixels in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

4 pixels are automatically cut on each border with a WB skin as this is how windows normally work when they are maximized (look at a normal window & watch what occurs. Notice there are no left, right or bottom edges visible? and that the top border has lost its sizing edge) The skin author can change this in their own skin if they want via the MaxBorderCut Values. A user can force all the borders to show using the SizeLimit setting, but this is not the default as it would was

Reply to Window Blinds isn't the only program in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Chroma is an old app which I think is not in development anymore. Or at least its going slowly. Certainly their web site has not been updated since september 2000 and that was about their server HD crashing. The latest version is 1.1 which was released at the end of August 2000. A bit before WindowBlinds 2 was released.

Reply to The bandwidth Issue and an Idea in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I think someone should take a VERY close look at the HTML this site sends out. Just visiting 2 skin sections and looking at the first page only and then visiting the message board resulted in over 200k being downloaded. This is with pictures disabled so that did not have impact the results. In fact in the last 5 mins I have had 0.5 MB of traffic from this site (all HTML - no pictures), yet I have not actually downloaded any skins. All I did was look at the first pag