Wincustomize news reader

June 10, 2002 2:51 AM from

Are there any other skins available for the Wincustomize DX reader??

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Reply #1 June 10, 2002 8:33 AM from

If you mean the skin browser, then no. It's just a standard Windows app, which means that it does get skinned by WindowBlinds just like any other windows (assuming you have WindowBlinds).

Reply #2 June 10, 2002 3:15 PM from

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I'm talking about a XML news reader that runs off of DXScript. It shows the WC News w/o going to the site. It's under the DX Misc objects, I think.

Reply #3 June 10, 2002 3:26 PM from

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Ahh. gotcha. Actually I think that dx object just downloads the XML file and performs an XSL translation on it to convert it to HTML and display it as a web page on the dx desktop using the IE web control.

If you open the the object with winzip you tell it to use a different XSL file, then take/download the one referenced and muck with it to change the colors and so forth. I did this a while back so that it matched my desktop color scheme, but have long since lost the object.

Reply #4 June 10, 2002 11:12 PM from

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I see why you ditched it...after dealing with it for awhile it was more of a pain in the ass than anything else.

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