WindowBlinds 4: PREVIEW!
Sunday, January 12, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Next week users of Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com) will be getting the first ALPHA of WindowBlinds 4.The full preview guide of WindowBlinds 4 is here:
http://www.windowblinds.net/wb4
Major new features of WindowBlinds 4 are:
* Much faster than WindowBlinds 3 or Windows XP's own built in visual styles
* Higher level of compatibility with wacky applications that do non-standard things.
* Skins more elements of Windows including the Explorer task panel (shellstyles) WITHOUT requiring any hacking of shellstyle DLL.
* Can skin new elements like log off screens and other parts that one might not imagine.
* Plus it skins a host of other things users have long asked for.
WindowBlinds 4 will be the most significant engine upgrade to WindowBlinds since the original 1.0. Faster, smaller, more features.
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Frogboy
Reply #3 Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:02 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:02 PM
Yes. SkinStudio version 3 is also in the works and it is a MAJOR overhaul.
We are also working on something called the metaformat. A kind of universal skin format that SkinStudio 3/4 would be able to compile into a skin for a target program.
We are also working on something called the metaformat. A kind of universal skin format that SkinStudio 3/4 would be able to compile into a skin for a target program.
Rahul
Reply #4 Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:08 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:08 PM
BoXXi,
Version 1.92a is the same as 2.0 (?) This version does have the IconX stuff...atleast mine does
Version 1.92a is the same as 2.0 (?) This version does have the IconX stuff...atleast mine does
Shakey (the Original)
Reply #5 Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:22 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:22 PM
Sweet. I have been looking forward to trying this out since it was first announced. 
I can't wait to try it out!
Dangeruss
Reply #9 Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:04 PM
Reply #9 Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:04 PM
Hawt Dayum! Next week means...? Sometime after NEXT Sunday? Sonner I hope.
RadialFX
Reply #10 Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:34 PM
Reply #10 Sunday, January 12, 2003 6:34 PM
Dangeruss, you're killing me 
. I'm from Oklahoma so a big Hawt Dayum is a major thing up here . It's kinda like coming into a million dollars at the Bingo hall!! .
Then using to buy new tires for your Trailer House!
So I go along with Russ!! HAWT DAYUM!!! I'm excited too!!
Thanks Brad!!
Randy
. I'm from Oklahoma so a big Hawt Dayum is a major thing up here . It's kinda like coming into a million dollars at the Bingo hall!! .Then using to buy new tires for your Trailer House!
So I go along with Russ!! HAWT DAYUM!!! I'm excited too!!
Thanks Brad!!
Randy
Aleatoric
Reply #11 Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:28 PM
Reply #11 Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:28 PM
Very cool! Definitely looking forward to giving it a try!
werewolf
Reply #12 Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:34 PM
Reply #12 Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:34 PM
How does the ability to skin the logon screen affect logonXP?
ClockWise
Reply #13 Monday, January 13, 2003 12:55 AM
Reply #13 Monday, January 13, 2003 12:55 AM
Theme my "Boogiebar." Please. ( http://www.windowblinds.net/wb4/ ).
ClockWise
Reply #14 Monday, January 13, 2003 12:58 AM
Reply #14 Monday, January 13, 2003 12:58 AM
Uh... so that link had nothing to do with boogiebar. http://boogiebar.hypermart.net/
Action_Jay
Reply #15 Monday, January 13, 2003 1:20 AM
Reply #15 Monday, January 13, 2003 1:20 AM
actually, it skins the log -off- screens, the little blue dialogs that pop up when you choose log off or shutdown from the start menu. Course, they only appear if you have the logon screen enabled, which means they're definitely related.
I just hope the stupid 'please wait' box gets skinned, or hit by a truck, or something.
I just hope the stupid 'please wait' box gets skinned, or hit by a truck, or something.
feline
Reply #16 Monday, January 13, 2003 5:22 AM
Reply #16 Monday, January 13, 2003 5:22 AM
does this first alpha support extra buttons being added by external programs to windows taskbars?
i *SO* want to play with that feature
i *SO* want to play with that feature
eidylon
Reply #18 Monday, January 13, 2003 1:02 PM
Reply #18 Monday, January 13, 2003 1:02 PM
I know this may seems two small things, but theyve always seemed SO out of place to me not skinned, especially as more and more other elements get skinned....
- The edges of textboxes similar to comboboxes
- Combobox scrollbars (i know theyve been trouble, optional?)
And one last pipe dream, any hope of the repositionable scroll bar arrows, to mimic Mac and Solaris and some other *nix shells??
Still can't wait either way!
- The edges of textboxes similar to comboboxes
- Combobox scrollbars (i know theyve been trouble, optional?)
And one last pipe dream, any hope of the repositionable scroll bar arrows, to mimic Mac and Solaris and some other *nix shells??
Still can't wait either way!
Graypony
Reply #19 Monday, January 13, 2003 7:20 PM
Reply #19 Monday, January 13, 2003 7:20 PM
Mmmm, I shiver with antisi...............pation!
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Reply #1 Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:49 PM
(Also Brad, DesktopX 2 doesn't appear in my component manager, is there anywhere else I can get it? I tried everything!)