Sylva

Reply to Want a theme done, this is your chance: doing skins on request in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmmmm....... How about a lime green frame with neon purple and shocking pink pink titlebar details. Huge glass buttons set in a plastic outline. and...hmmmm........ (j/k... I think) really though, I have always had a difficult time working with yellow as the main color in a skin. So how about a skin with a lot of yellow (sort of a deeper tone though, not too lemony).

Reply to Want a theme done, this is your chance: doing skins on request in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hmmm... well, I'd like to see my Futility skin ported to winamp. And I'm working on a WB skin you could port to something if youd like. In fact, that'll be open to anyone who'd like to try. Kind of like a less organized "community skin" project.

Reply to Submission in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hehe, yes, polite. some people aren't so I always mention it when telling someone to send an e-mail. *s*

Reply to Submission in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

that's not normal. could be something wrong with the system maybe? Don't know. The best thing to do would be to send a (polite) e-mail to T-man asking for an explanation.

Reply to Screen Shots? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

EventHorizon, alt + print-screen only takes an SS of the active window.

Reply to Font colours in WB4 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For the control panel, in skin studio go to XPshell - Background Windows - Control Panel Background. You have to configure the "colors" under the attributes section. the other part, I never even noticed so I'm not sure.

A note to all mothers.... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

For all the things you all do for us "kids" (even when we're eighty and have grandchildren of our own will still be "kids" to you *s*).... Happy Mother's Day. (is this a US only thing? I don;t remember. But I mean for everyone anyway)

Reply to ~~~A question for WINAMP Skiners.~~~ in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

joe, you can unhide the file extensions in XP the same way you do it in win98. I usually prefer to leave it as a zip. for a winamp skin. the wsz format is just for automatic install.

Reply to Greyhaze? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If you look in the "how many is too many" thread you'll see him listing about 20 million buttons for a new skin he's working on. So, I guess that means he's back for a while. or, at least long enough to make a new skin anyway.

Reply to wallpapers made to match skins and moderation (question, not a rant) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

thanks for the answers guys *s*

Reply to Classic windows theme on XP and WindowBlinds? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Mercury made one a couple years ago that mimicked windows (I think 2000, don't remember). It would work, but it wouldn't have shell support or the start menu/taskbar. Which, if you want just the windows classic look, should be fine. Just go to the windowblinds section and do a search for "mercury" to bring up a list of his skins. You'll know the skin I'm talking about when you see it.

Reply to wallpapers made to match skins and moderation (question, not a rant) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

But sometimes that makes the file size so large that people on a dial-up connection may have a difficult time downloading it. When I was still using dial-up I hated downloading skins over say, 300k, because I knew I would get disconnected before I finished downloading it. Also, you can only add one size that way. On some older computers, setting a wallpaper to stretch too much slows the system down, and not everyone knows that they can usually re-size the image. [Message Edited]

wallpapers made to match skins and moderation (question, not a rant) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I have sort of an odd question. Lots of times I'll make a simple five minute wallpaper, not with any detail or anything, just to have something to match a skin I made to make the screenshot before I upload the skin. Most of the walls I make for that reason I wouldn't dare upload because, even though I have automatic approval, it would not get through the moderation that the lower user level members have to go through (I try to impose the same standards on my own work). The problem with

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

oops /me gets dizzy just thinking about all those buttons! hehe

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me/ gets dizzy just thinking about all those buttons!

Reply to A rude comment. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It was rude. He could have found a much better way to express his opinion than by saying what he said. People are going to have both positive and negative reactions to any skin that is on the site, and it's ok, in my opinion, to express those opinions, but please, if you have negative comment to make, use a little bit of common sense in the way you word it.

Reply to If i look at bright skins all of the time... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hehe

Reply to That ugly green button! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

get windowblinds

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

It's exactly what I had descirbed in one of my earlier posts. I had to add it in notepad though, instead of in SkinStudio. SS kept cutting out the file path when I saved it. [Button3] ButtonImage=Futility\tbb4.bmp Action=5 Align=1 XCoord=87 YCoord=0 Visibility=22 Command=C:\Program Files\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\Futility\Show Desktop.scf

Shell stuff - backgrounds in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I'm just looking for opinions here. I'm working on a skin, but I don't like the way the shell backgrounds (music, movies, etc) go with this skins. In fact, I've always found them somewhat distracting. I was wondering how many people here would consider a skin "incomplete" without them. (I'm not adding them to this skin either way, I was just curious as to what other people thought).

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

I got it working again. It seems I accidentally deleted the skin's derectory name from the file path. Want me to post the section of the code here so you can see it?

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

DavidK did SETI for the GUI-O last year. Still one of my favorites. *s*

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

dang it! I had it working last night before I went to bed. I changed something this morning (on another part of the skin) and after I re-saved it, it's not working. The code still looks the same though. That sucks. I'll keep working on it and see if I can fix it. If I can I'll let you know.

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Put Show Desktop.scf into the skin directory and for the action choose execute command. Then for the command type in the full path for Show Desktop.scf.

Reply to How many is too many? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Notepad and the windows calculator. And show desktop wouldn't be such a bad idea either.