Skinners, Artists, Coders, and Testers Needed: Community Suite
Happy Birthday!!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 by ZubaZ | Discussion: Community
After the success on the Troll Thumping Day Suite some members of the Mother Thumpers are coming together to create the "Happy Birthday Suit(e)".
I envision this suite centered around a DX gadget that counts down to your birthday. On your birthday the gadget will prompt you to download the most recent incarnation of the suite components so for your special day, your desktop will celebrate with you.
At this point we have some components assigned to artists but this is a collaborative project and welcome input and assistance from everyone. Please jump in and help out if you'd like.
WB - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Vista Logon - RickJF - complete, uploaded
Dream - Carguy - complete, uploaded
Tabbed Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
Zoomer Docks - mommaTee - complete, uploaded
XP Logon - RickJF, sAARge - complete, uploaded
Winamp - TheD2JBug - complete, uploaded
Avatar - Hog56 - complete, uploaded
SoundPackage - Robjk - complete, uploaded
DX Birthday game - Haptork - complete, uploaded
DX Clock - theAVMAN - complete, uploaded
Dock icons - RickJF - complete, uploaded
RightClick - Lantec - complete, uploaded
Rainlendar - 2of3 - complete, uploaded
Bootskin - RickJP - complete, uploaded
IconPackage - MommaTee - complete, testing
Sidebar - Mike - complete, uploaded
Xion - alibear123 - complete, uploaded
Cursor - sAARge - complete, uploaded
Sysmetrix - Lantec - pending - drafts posted in thread
DX Countdown Widget - theAVMAN, milksama
DX Weather - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded
DX Calendar - puterdudejim - complete, uploaded
Launch date: Unknown at this point
(Happy Birthday Karma and Snowy! - Original date May 6th, 2008)
Please see the link below for the original suggestion.
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Reply #1202 Friday, October 31, 2008 11:11 AM
set it up for 11 month day 1 but as in UK and we use dd/mm/yy it shows 71 days to go, as reads date off my computer. That apart worked and looks ok
Reply #1203 Friday, October 31, 2008 12:06 PM
I found some code VAD did for something else we worked on and it should "convert" dates over.
Can you please try and re-download the gadget HERE
Let me know if it works for UK or any other location (its working for me in the US)
Reply #1204 Friday, October 31, 2008 4:57 PM
Hi RomanDA tried new one that works perfectly thanks set it up for month 11 day 3 shows up as 2 days etc to go.
Reply #1207 Monday, November 3, 2008 10:40 AM
NEED HELP ALL!!
I need the following:
1. PNG files for the ballons (seperate ones each if possible). Want to use 2 of them for the buttons. Need the ones for the mini and large modes (are they the same?)
2. A new image to use for the "Happy Birthday" Image - IE used when today is their Birthday. It needs to be about the size of the LARGE image.
3. Look over THE LATEST GADGET here and see what im using now (stole it from the net, we need one that is ours to use). Let me know what you think, on the use etc.
Thanks!
Reply #1208 Monday, November 3, 2008 11:04 PM
Download my weather/calendar widgets. They contain single balloons I used for buttons. http://chubbyhusband.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=1431&libid=34
Reply #1209 Monday, November 3, 2008 11:05 PM
Be more specific please. 
Reply #1211 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 7:11 AM
2. A new image to use for the "Happy Birthday" Image - IE used when today is their Birthday. It needs to be about the size of the LARGE image.
Be more specific please.
on the day of the birthday, the image changes to something like a gient HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
was hoping to make something animated, if you download the beta gadget and set the date to today you will see the one i "borrowed" from the internet. Need one that we can use.
Got the ballons, those worked perfect.
Reply #1212 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 7:31 AM
LAST BETA!!
Ok all come and get it.. last chance to send me input.
http://www.commercialgadgets.com/gadgets/demos/cbcountdown.exe
Added the Balloon Buttons and a CLOSE button on mini and large mode.
Thanks for the balloons, they worked well.
The only thing we need now is that Happy Birthday Animated image.
There is also MUSIC in this one as well, please let me know what you think.
Reply #1213 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:31 AM
It is in .gif for the web but I have it in png
Reply #1215 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:11 AM
if so please email me so i can see how to incorportate that.
Thanks!
I will render it again to show the whole box what size would you like?
Reply #1216 Tuesday, November 4, 2008 1:47 PM
I think somewhere around 300 pixels wide x 300 or whatver tall would work.
Thanks
Reply #1217 Thursday, November 6, 2008 3:01 AM
I don't know if this would be all right or not, but I created a screensaver to go with the birthday suite. I've uploaded the file at MediaFire in a zip folder, if somebody wants to take a look at it, tell me whether you think it might be nice to include it in the suite, or if it's not up to the level of perfection these community projects are expected to be.
Here's a screenshot: 
The letters flash different colors, the flame on the cupcake flickers, and the white confetti (my screensaver creation program doesn't have the option for me to color the "snow") falls down over the whole scene, and there's birthday music/sound effects that are included.
Here's the URL to the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=c98b294b97cbbf94ab1eab3e9fa335cafe3b4481497cd554
I would LOVE to add Winky walking through the whole thing, but my animated gif-creation skills are just awful, so if somebody had a Winky gif where he's walking (or skipping, or whatever), I could add him in there, too. That is assuming you all don't think this is just a piece of junk.
Reply #1218 Thursday, November 6, 2008 5:28 AM
From the screenshot it looks very nice 
I'm not on my computer now, so I can't test it unfortunately, but I'm sure someone else will 
Reply #1220 Thursday, November 6, 2008 6:08 PM
not sure.. was hoping to keep it kind of simple, and it would need to be a png strip animation ie:
image1 | image 2 | image 3 all in the same png file.
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Reply #1201 Friday, October 31, 2008 10:32 AM
ok.. anyone want to test the gadget (its a gadget so you dont need dx)
Click here
Its not 100%, please let me know what you think about it, problems, issues, etc.
Be aware i have not set any kind of min to tray or close buttons, use the tray-icon for that for now.
We also need to decide what it does when its your birthday?
Change image? Load some kind of song? what?