Winstep releases Winstep Xtreme 8.11
Friday, December 12, 2008 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Among Windows 7's features, the taskbar overhaul is probably the feature in Microsoft's upcoming OS that has aroused the most interest.
So you've seen all those videos of the new Windows 7 Beta taskbar and you can't help but wish that the new "Superbar" was also available for Vista and XP? Well, you won't have to wait for Windows 7 anymore... Winstep Xtreme 8.11 has just been released, and brings with it the most interesting features of the new Windows 7 taskbar into the XP and Vista world!
An integrated workspace environment, Winstep Xtreme is a powerful suite of applications that merge incredible usability and performance with breathtaking eye candy.
Winstep Xtreme features NeXuS, a multi-dock system with multiple levels of sub-docks, NextSTART, a menu system that also takes care of all your task management needs, WorkShelf, a powerful tabbed dock able to display special system drawers such as the Windows Control Panel, Desktop, etc, Winstep Start Menu Organizer Pro, which cleans and organizes your Windows Start Menu, FontBrowser, a bare-bones font browsing utility, and a pack of useful widgets which can be displayed on the desktop, featured within the docks, placed within shelves or merged into the taskbar.
Winstep Xtreme is available for purchase with prices starting at $28.45. You can download Winstep Xtreme 8.11 from HERE
Winstep Xtreme Website: http://www.winstep.net
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Reply #22 Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:43 PM
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Reply #24 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:30 AM
WebGizmos has fixed the problem...I'd post the file, but I don't have permission. WG has done a fantastic job with this and is a big fan of MexStart!
Reply #25 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:36 AM
OMG! My sides are still killing me! I'm never calling you again! First do no harm my ass!
Jorge....Still not quite sure what was wrong with the skin Doc was trying to use...but I got it fixed for him and its working fine now. The original skin..."Windows_7_Superbar_in_XP_by_haran_hockey" had some some strange looking files in it such as "Startbar.png.bak"....not sure what that is and a lot of files were named liked that...and some of the graphics as well didn't make any sense...some were poorly done.
The second version above was a better graphic wise...but still couldn't resize the Startbar.
Now...I'm still new to skinning Winstep and NextStart and playing around with it...but the above version "seemed" to be missing some files. So I compared it to another file in which I was creating an EclizDeluxe WorkShelf and NextStart for myself that was working and added another file from that NextStart to the one above for Doc and got it working properly.
Reply #26 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:52 AM
This is the one I'm working on for myself a bit at a time.
Reply #27 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:43 AM
WG...I sent you some stuff. I'm hoping you can do something with those files, and JB's "Fences". 
Reply #29 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:07 PM
Which must be the Mexican version of NextSTART...
Reply #30 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:29 PM
Which must be the Mexican version of NextSTART...
And WorkShelf becomes "WorkCheap" and Nexus becomes "MeXus"?
I guess we'll have to ask Jeff Bargmann for a "Longer and higher" version of "Fences", eh Jorge? GWB couldn't get it done.
Reply #31 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:35 PM
Jorge....If you could have listened in on the call between me and doc last you would pissed your pants! We were laughing so hard it hurt. It all started with me misspelling NextStart as MextStart...from there it just took on a life all its own. We invented a whole new version...the details of which will forever remain undocumented...so to speak.
Reply #32 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:36 PM
Haran_Hockey started using Winstep Xtreme like 2 weeks ago - actually pretty brave of him to dive straight into skinning it, even if only the taskbar.
Love your screenshot, by the way, and I think WorkShelf's tab text would also look really good using the font seen in OD's tabbed dock too.
I'm adding a skinner's option NOT to display the 3D icon frames in the shelf for WSX 8.12.
Hope you release that theme!
Reply #33 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:40 PM
Reply #34 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:43 PM
Hey...options are always a good thing as long as they're options. And am I correct in understanding that we can use png images rather than ico images used to close...see more in the shelf and open the configuration window? Also....The file name mentioned above...Startbar.png.bak....is that a normal file name> I've looked at quite a few files to learn how everything works and thats the first time I came across that.
What would be really great is if you could come up with something explaining what files need to be in a folder on order for everything to work. It was just be chance that I figured out what the problems were with the theme doc was using. Turns out it was a missing file.
And it'll be a bit before I get that theme done...plus I need to get JJYing's permission...if he's still around that is...since it's fashioned after one of his skins that I use a lot...EclizDeluxe...and hope to have several versions in the end.
I have others I want to do but still trying to figure out this tiling method...some parts work and others don't.
Reply #35 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:57 PM
I think a good tutorial section is needed. Also, if the new GUI Theme manager you're working on Jorge had a way to make skins it would be cool. I just don't understand the process and would love to do something creative and not just wait for others to do for me.
I admire Haran-Hockey's courage also, btw.
Thank you for such an amazing application and your devotion to improving it, Jorge. Really.
As for WG...what can I say? I can't take him anywhere. P.S. Are you making a Linux "Red Sombrero" version of MexStep?
Reply #36 Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:16 PM
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Reply #38 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:17 AM
You can use ico, png and tif files for the Shelf left and right mini-tab indicators.
I'm surprised you haven't found it yet, but the User Guide for each application (NextSTART and WorkShelf) has a Theme Bitmaps section that lists ALL the bitmaps you can use to make a theme and their filenames.
Reply #39 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:16 AM
You can use ico, png and tif files for the Shelf left and right mini-tab indicators.
Ok cool.
Can ya give me a hint where I'd find them. Oh wait...I get it...this is one of those hunt for it games and if I find it I get updates for life!
Reply #40 Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:51 PM
As for the sections themselves, check out the 'Theme Bitmaps' entry in the index right at the top of the document.
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Reply #21 Sunday, December 14, 2008 6:22 PM
How does one fix that?