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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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Jimbo9294
Reply #141 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:17 PM
Test Balloon Sprites.

I made these this morning. They can be used for the suite, in the screen saver or where ever. 15 colors in all. (60x220 - .png files). All done in photoshop and ready to be animated.
What do you think?
2of3
Reply #142 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:21 PM
What do you think?


That's what I'm talkin' about!

Good stuff!

If you wouldn't mind sending me the .pngs I would be very happy
Jimbo9294
Reply #143 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:33 PM
If you wouldn't mind sending me the .pngs I would be very happy


Thanks, 2of3
what's your email?
2of3
Reply #144 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:40 PM
HAPTORK
Reply #145 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:44 PM
baloons look nice. In what size or resolution they are. Somewhere we may need some big sizes.
Jimbo9294
Reply #146 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:50 PM
They are on there way.
Jimbo9294
Reply #147 Saturday, February 9, 2008 12:54 PM
baloons look nice. In what size or resolution they are. Somewhere we may need some big sizes.


15 colors in all. (60x220 - .png files). All done in photoshop and ready to be animated.


hort. and vert. resolution 96dpi, but, both size and resolution can be modified as needed.
2of3
Reply #148 Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:07 PM
Thank
They are on there way.


Received. Thankee
Pugboy
Reply #149 Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:50 PM

Alperium and sARRGe, we should try and get the Logons looking pretty close


Pretty close to what ??????

u have to write it openly .... coz i'm not a good english speaker !!




They should look similar, if not the same.
SirSmiley
Reply #150 Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:52 PM
Hey Jimbo9294 do you mind sending me the png's?

I'll work on a DesktopX animation.
sirsmiley001[atserver]gmail[dot]com

...password by persisting the storage


This is one of my peeves. Have seen people save passwords this way and they are neither encoded or encrypted. At the very least use base64 encoding if you must save it. Have been playing around with a Encryption/Encoding class. Using SHA1 works nice for something like this.

Pugboy
Reply #151 Saturday, February 9, 2008 1:55 PM
Here is my try at some balloons. For those with Flash, I can send you an FLA file.

HAPTORK
Reply #152 Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:04 PM
This is one of my peeves. Have seen people save passwords this way and they are neither encoded or encrypted. At the very least use base64 encoding if you must save it. Have been playing around with a Encryption/Encoding class. Using SHA1 works nice for something like this.


Ya encryping the password is nice but here password is used so that the person you are gifting the gadget cant change the date you have presetted until his/her birthday comes or until you want it. There are no security issues and nothing like personal information threat.
But if this is what we need then I will take your help to encrypt the password.

Jimbo9294
Reply #153 Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:10 PM
Hey Jimbo9294 do you mind sending me the png's?


They are their way SirSmiley
Jimbo9294
Reply #154 Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:11 PM
Here is my try at some balloons. For those with Flash, I can send you an FLA file.


I will keep this in mind. They look nice.
Jimbo9294
Reply #155 Saturday, February 9, 2008 3:13 PM

One example of some draft animation if anyone wants it.
Only an idea, here guys. I invision a screen saver with balloons, confetti, and fireworks.
sAARGe
Reply #156 Saturday, February 9, 2008 4:42 PM
nice animation ....   
sAARGe
Reply #157 Saturday, February 9, 2008 4:44 PM
will be excellent ... if u animate also the rope ....
Jimbo9294
Reply #158 Saturday, February 9, 2008 5:56 PM
Draft animation of what I have in mind, with the balloons. Concerning, the background, We have several options with this. We can use the wallpaper that will be made for the suite or we can have transparent one, or both we can have both.



If you don't see the video in the post click here: Balloon test
PoSmedley
Reply #159 Saturday, February 9, 2008 7:01 PM

Po you are going to have to leave the same # of pixels of empty space above the taskbar as your balloon button are.

Ex,.... taskbar button height is 50 then if the bar itself is 30(default)them there should be 20 blank space above the bar.

Dont forget also the content margin in the taskbar buttons sets overall height of the bar!!!!!!!


Avman, I think I follow what you're saying. Let me ask you this...Do you think I would have better luck using the old Skinstudio or should I stick with SS6?

Oh..and are you on messenger or twitter?
sAARGe
Reply #160 Saturday, February 9, 2008 7:10 PM
Jimbo9294 can u send me a picture of balloons.. ????
my email id is [email protected]

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