Shameless Designs

Shameless Designs

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Reply to Severe MDI error in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK, I've done some experimenting, and I am beginning to believe that this problem is unique to PSP. Have you been able to duplicate the problem in any other program? I have tried about a dozen programs that have MDI windows, and PSP (v7 & v8) are the only programs which will let me resize a window down to 100 pixels in width. And it is only when I resize the MDI window that small that the Minimized Window Caption graphic is the corresponding width. In PSP, if the MDI window is at least 142 pixel

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Reply to Severe MDI error in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The graphics for the Tool Window Borders (the top window in your linked graphic) and the Minimized Window Caption (the bottom window in your linked graphic) are separate items in WB, although the Minimized Window Caption item is very rarely skinned in most WB's. Possibly it's a new feature in WB that wasn't able to be skinned before, I'm really not sure since I'm relatively new to skinning for WB. But the MWC and the buttons for it are mandatory items according to Skin Studio, so if the images a

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Reply to Object dock animated aim dude in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I made this up fairly quickly, and I'm not sure if it's what you had in mind. Please keep in mind this is a .gif, so the quality is not as good as you would get as an object on OD. If this is what you had in mind, I'll be glad to send it to you or someone else to turn into an object. I don't use Object Dock myself, so I can't help you there. I did it all in vectors, so I can easily send it as a

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Reply to a DUMB question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

#9 by Nakor - 3/24/2004 8:31:43 PM As is being judgemental apparently. Point taken, sir. I will endeavor to exercise greater restraint. My apologies. (But I'll be very surprised if my judgement in this case is in error.)

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Reply to my somewhat finished site... please rate? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you want to get rid of your own user picture in WindowBlinds, you need to do it through Configure WindowBlinds...>User Overrides. Under Advanced Settings, disable Show user icon in startpanel(if not domain). If you want to try to prevent other skin users from having a user picture, you need to adjust content margins for the User Pane (a negative value for Left margin) until the user picture disappears. To adjust the location of the Username text, you can use the Text Alignme

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Reply to a DUMB question in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

he may not be english/american Looking at the word useage and syntax, I'll bet dollars against doughnuts that he is an American male under the age of 21. He's just rude and lazy in my opinion. Unfortunately, these are traits which are all too common in our culture today.

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Reply to Optimization - Why do skin designers ignore it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

re: #25 On the issue of using tile vs. stretch, I agree with you absolutely. In fact I have seen skins where appearance improved as well as performance. I am not saying that we shouldn't do those things we can do routinely to improve the performance of a skin. The point I take issue with is reducing color depth. I honestly don't believe that the performance gain for today's typical desktop user is significant enough to warrant the time, effort, and potential risk of an adverse

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I somehow missed this thread earlier... Sorry Sput. Nothing comes to mind off the top of my head, but I'll do some research and get back to you. One thing occurred to me, but not sure it applies. On your tga for the pulldown items extra, do you have translucency enabled? I seem to recall having a similar problem that required me to disable translucency in a tga in order to see an overlapping or underlying bmp. I can't recall exactly now, but I'll dig through my skinners notebooks and check in Sk

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Reply to Do decent Style XP users exist? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Ok, Bob Ladbury obviously does not have all his dogs barking at the same tree... He is clearly biased, highly motivated, and not averse to employing any of the tactics of which he accuses you. Perhaps he is projecting... At any rate, in my opinion he is clearly misguided, but not an idiot. He actually must be fairly intelligent, for he definitely has some skill at dissembly, misdirectrion, obfuscation, non sequiters, and circular logic. Were he not quite so perverse, one might even admire him.<b

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Reply to Optimization - Why do skin designers ignore it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OK, I'm getting real curious now... When talking about performance it is not about the small amount of disk space saved its all about rendering of the graphics on the screen. When skinning with such as Windowblinds the borders of windows has to be rendered again and again for every single window displayed.You don't have to spend hours optimizing every little graphic, targe

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Reply to Do decent Style XP users exist? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Brad, the link you posted for TGT Soft's Style XP Marketing Document is broken. The correct link cannot be posted because the WC coding bug Deletes the part of the URL... trying something... h ttp://www.tgtsoft.com/prod_sXP_benefits.php Remove the space and change Uppercase Letters to lower case in order to make the URL work [Message Edited] [Message Edited]

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Reply to Optimization - Why do skin designers ignore it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Most bitmap images in windowblind skins can be optimized with ZERO loss of quality. For example, this image has a TOTAL of 102 colors: If the number of unique colors in the graphic is less than 256, I agree that it's a simple process to convert to 8 bit. As I already conceded in my post, for many simple graphics it is not a problem to reduce the

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Reply to Optimization - Why do skin designers ignore it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The simple process of reducing the number of colors on the bitmap images to 256 or 16 has a dramatic effect on how fast the machine will run. You can reduce transparency in a lot of images where the background can be part of the image.99% of skins seem to have all 16 millon colour images, this is just crazy as the reduced color images look just as good as long as you use a

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Reply to Optimization - Why do skin designers ignore it? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm still working on my first WB for publication, but I've been tweaking other people's skins and making skins for my own use to learn the process for some time now. And to answer your question, the bottom line for me is it is just not worth the time and effort to optimize graphics for file size and performance speed. The WB I'm working on now has 110 bitmaps and 39 targas for the main skin. If you counted the separate frames in the images for multiple states that number could be 3-5 ti

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Reply to What do you guys think of my Nebula stuff in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

#16 by latin4567 - 3/22/2004 8:21:35 PM Anyone notice that I always attract shamless design? It's nothing personal, latin. Once you become better adjusted to the do's and don'ts and start paying a bit more attention to the common courtesies expected here on the board, you won't hear much from me unless I think I can answer a question you may h

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Reply to All Programs hover in Stardock Software WinCustomize Forums

I just realized, belatedly, I admit, that I really should apologize to Treetog for using his skin in a public forum like this without discussing it with him. I only did it because CopperDeck 2 is what started this whole thread, and I got caught up in trying to solve the riddle, so to speak. What was it that Martin used to say? Use, Dissect, Learn, Improve... At any rate, Treetog, I apologize if I offended you at all by using your wonderful graphics in this way. If you have any problem

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