April '09 Desktop Screenshots!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by Snowman | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
My desk of the month (so far)
Spaceport:
WB: Space by Stardock Design
XION: LCARS by messiah
Wall: Nuvem wallpaper mix by me
RightClick: Space V3 by me [unreleased]
OD+: Space Docks by me [unreleased]
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Reply #82 Thursday, April 23, 2009 8:43 PM
Excalpius -
How were you able to modify the Sidebar gadgets? Or did you build them from scratch?
Reply #85 Friday, April 24, 2009 12:50 AM
How were you able to modify the Sidebar gadgets? Or did you build them from scratch?
The info gadgets on the rightmost monitor are Rainmeter gadgets, HUD skin. I'll update the description with that info.
The only sidebar gadgets are the Full Moon one (available on the MS site) and the slideshow gadgets that I did indeed modify. Assuming you mean the latter, here is some info...
All the MS gadgets appear to be programmed in Javascript (with XML interface templates) which means they are trivial to debug and edit in Notepad if you have any programming experience at all (basic or higher). They can be found in your C://Program Files/Windows Sidebar/Gadgets directory.
Because they are MS delivered OS gadgets, you'll have to remove their security settings.
I made a copy of the SlideShow.Gadget directory, then renamed the current one to SlideShow.Gadget.old (make sure no slideshow gadgets are running).
Then copy the directory back and start tinkering with its files! The images are easy to edit in any common paint program. For example, I turned the images/on desktop/slideshow_glass_frame.png to an entirely clear, frameless version in Photoshop.
The main code is found in the en-US/js directory. I made a backup copy of slideShow.js as slideShow.js.old and started tinkering.
Some items are obvious like changing certain variables right at the beginning...
var maxUndockedWidth = 320; changed to 400
var maxUndockedHeight = 240; changed to 400
and, because I have a LOT of images in a lot of directories...
var gFolderCountMax = 500; changed to 10000
var gImageCountMax = 2000; changed to 500000
The rest were coding tweaks, made necessary due to the above changes breaking something, hehe...
gUndockFlag = true;
with(document.body.style)
width=360, changed to 440
height=280; changed to 440
and...
with(pictureFrame.style)
top=16,left=17,width=320, height=240;
changed to...
with(pictureFrame.style)
top=16,left=17,width=400, height=400;
I did some other tweaks, like adding addition time length options, etc. but these are the major tweaks with made the slideshows larger and borderless.
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In short, the idea is to backup the original data and then experiment a little. Swapping out the images is the easiest way to customize any Sidebar gadget, but you can also tweak the code if you want to.
I hope this helped.
Reply #86 Friday, April 24, 2009 5:50 AM
Hi Excalpius -
Thanks for the quick response. My programming experience is limited, but you gave enough to start monkeying around.
I'll give it a shot, and see what happens.
Thanks again
Reply #87 Monday, April 27, 2009 2:58 AM
That's all it takes, amigo. Have fun! Worst thing you can do is break the script, but that's why you make a backup, copy over the broken one, and try again. 
Reply #91 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 6:39 AM
Now make it an animated wall with glowing fluorescent lights! 
Reply #93 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:57 AM
Hey! Someone throw a net over that guy above me! I think he's been raiding the medicine cabinet! 
And he's eating everyones Karma! 
Reply #97 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:24 AM
Love that Carbon Fibre, ID! 
Funny thing is that I used that skin all through its development, and now that it's done, I've been stuck on Light Mark!
Reply #98 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:18 AM
You did really good work with the docks, Mg....btw, they're fullt functional, now! Thanks for the help gettin' them where the should go.
My SS.... Zing! this month Wall is Metal01 from dA....next month who knows?
Reply #99 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:23 AM
Anytime Doc, anytime. 
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Reply #81 Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:24 AM