WindowBinds 3.31i: New controls skinned

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Just a head's up for skin authors:

WindowBlinds 3.31I now on Object Desktop supports skinning of spinner controls and mouse overs on radio buttons:

3.31i
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-UpDown(spin) control skin support
-Mouseover support for combo boxes
-Shadows on fonts can have an X & Y coordinate setting
-Checkbox & radio buttons can now have pressed & mouseover
states.

Radio button layout:
normal, mouseover, pressed, disabled, selected, selected mouseover, selected
pressed, selected disabled
Checkbox button layout:
This is split into 3 parts (non-checked, checked, mixed) of
4 images each (normal, mouseover, pressed disabled).

See www.stardock.com/temp/z.wba for a rough and dirty sampling
of the above.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh boy! This is exciting! Will there be an update to SkinStudio soon with these additions?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hope so.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You HOPE so? If you don't know, what are we to do?

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Write your own .def files! Or just go back to using good old notepad and guessing the attributes from dumps of wblind.dll. Here's something I dug out earlier - the spin controls are [UpDown.Horz] and [UpDown.Vert].
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think spin controls are something like spin doctors.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i would really like some kind of WB lite, that only skins the window borders and the caption buttons. would be fun to skin for me.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Moshi, you don't have to skin everything if you don't want to. Any elements you leave unskinned will simply use the Windows Classic look.

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Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
well my problem is that SkinStudio refuses to work without crashing every two minutes and my idea of that WB lite would have a new more logical code, so it can be done easily edited with a text editor. also there would be no point releasing a not even half-executed skin for WB and without the comments it wouldn´t be that fun.

doing a whole skin without help from SkinStudio is just not worth the effort for me (call me lazy, but i did that once for Blacksteel and i know what i´m talking about ).
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
dunno spin control??

let me tell u:
go to ur DATE and TIME properties (double click the CLOCK on ur taskbar)
u will find small combo box like thing near the TIME and YEAR. they r the spin controls...
look @ this @ 90 deg angle...

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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hey...WINDOW BLINDS doesnt skin VB IDE (the FORM object in VB IDE)

whats happening??

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Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have no Idea what anyone is talking about, I have attempted many times to understand how to create a skin, but it is so confusing that I cannot even begin to fathom how to do it. I have used tutorals and still do not understand....

However I find this discussion very interesting, indeed.

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