Frogboy's Desktop: July 2003
Thursday, July 10, 2003 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Over at Neowin I've started a desktop of the month video. I'm not sure how well it'll catch on, it's an extension of the screenshot of the month concept.Here's mine from July: https://www.stardock.com/video/frogboy-july03.wmv
Here's what I'm doing in this video:
1) Been working a lot on DesktopX version 2. Those of you who like making scripts and such (VB Script, Javascript, etc.) are going to love DesktopX 2. We're going to have a free public beta shortly of it. In here, I have a bunch of fish objects that use a single page of VBscript code to control the fish.
DesktopX handles all the visual stuff so you only have to worry about the "guts" of the logic and just use PNGs for the graphics (or use a chart object or drawing object and have it handle the drawing).
2) Then I also got the final internal build of Keyboard LaunchPad 1.0. It's a program that lets you assign hotkeys to different pages. To get to WinCustomize I hit Ctrl-Alt-W and to go to Neowin, I jsut hit Ctrl-Alt-N. It also lets you save clipboard states to as hot keys too. So I have various Stardock logos, sigs, etc. saved as hotkeys that I can then use when I'm writing a document or posting or whatever. Stardock's tech support is moving to using Keyboard LaunchPad for canned replies.
3) And then finally I was playing around with a new build of SkinStudio. The newest builds let you take msstyles and bring them into the new Universal Skin Format that anyone can then write converters to various formats that they choose. We've written converts to take USF and make it into Media Player skins and WindowBlinds skin. So that msstyle skin you have you can convert to a Media Player skin (you choose a template or create your own template to control the layout and it then uses your msstyle or WB or whatever graphics for the buttons, borders, etc.).
This stuff is on Object Desktop. To get Object Desktop go to www.objectdesktop.com (http://www.objectdesktop.com).
So that's what I've been doing mostly this month.
Vanilla Ice
Reply #2 Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:10 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:10 PM
two questions:
1. can the new skinstudio convert windowblinds to msstyle?
2. how new is that new version of skinstudio cause on object desktop the newest one i have listed is from march 18th.
1. can the new skinstudio convert windowblinds to msstyle?
2. how new is that new version of skinstudio cause on object desktop the newest one i have listed is from march 18th.
_Martin_
Reply #3 Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:23 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:23 PM
Object Desktop is not used for releases now. You need Stardock Central (https://www.stardock.com/sdnet_login.asp)
Anthony R
Reply #4 Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:56 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:56 PM
What’s next? Floating air balloons combined with the dawning of the Age of Aquarius music? Or should I say the age of Aquarium? Gone to far 
Frogboy
Reply #8 Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:48 PM
Reply #8 Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:48 PM
Stardock Central is where new compnents for Object Desktop show up. We are replacing Component Manager. The latest SkinStudios and such are on there.
ToeJo
Reply #9 Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:49 PM
Reply #9 Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:49 PM
How come Frogboy has all those fish and not any Frog's on his desktop?
KarmaGirl
Reply #10 Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:25 PM
Reply #10 Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:25 PM
don't give him any ideas... you would be amazed at how many times you hear him yell from his office: "Hey guys, ya' wanna see something *really* cool?!" We always say "no" but end up looking anyway....
Vanilla Ice
Reply #13 Friday, July 11, 2003 4:51 PM
Reply #13 Friday, July 11, 2003 4:51 PM
so can the new skinstudio convert windowblinds to msstyle?
Bonzo1223
Reply #14 Friday, July 11, 2003 5:52 PM
Reply #14 Friday, July 11, 2003 5:52 PM
where are the fish? can they be downloaded or bought or are they even released yet?
with a desktop like that i'd never get any work done
looks awesome
with a desktop like that i'd never get any work done
looks awesome
_Martin_
Reply #16 Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:05 PM
Reply #16 Sunday, July 13, 2003 5:05 PM
Bonzo: The fish are still in a tank in a secret location, but will be set loose on the world when we've mastered implanting the secret planning chip.
rjchaney: It's coded to work, will confirm tomorrow
rjchaney: It's coded to work, will confirm tomorrow
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Reply #1 Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:33 PM