WindowBinds 3.31i: New controls skinned
Tuesday, July 2, 2002 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Just a head's up for skin authors:
WindowBlinds 3.31I now on Object Desktop supports skinning of spinner controls and mouse overs on radio buttons:
3.31i
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-UpDown(spin) control skin support
-Mouseover support for combo boxes
-Shadows on fonts can have an X & Y coordinate setting
-Checkbox & radio buttons can now have pressed & mouseover
states.
Radio button layout:
normal, mouseover, pressed, disabled, selected, selected mouseover, selected
pressed, selected disabled
Checkbox button layout:
This is split into 3 parts (non-checked, checked, mixed) of
4 images each (normal, mouseover, pressed disabled).
See www.stardock.com/temp/z.wba for a rough and dirty sampling
of the above.
WindowBlinds 3.31I now on Object Desktop supports skinning of spinner controls and mouse overs on radio buttons:
3.31i
-----
-UpDown(spin) control skin support
-Mouseover support for combo boxes
-Shadows on fonts can have an X & Y coordinate setting
-Checkbox & radio buttons can now have pressed & mouseover
states.
Radio button layout:
normal, mouseover, pressed, disabled, selected, selected mouseover, selected
pressed, selected disabled
Checkbox button layout:
This is split into 3 parts (non-checked, checked, mixed) of
4 images each (normal, mouseover, pressed disabled).
See www.stardock.com/temp/z.wba for a rough and dirty sampling
of the above.
GreenReaper
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 4:07 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 4:07 AM
Write your own .def files! Or just go back to using good old notepad and guessing the attributes from dumps of wblind.dll. Here's something I dug out earlier - the spin controls are [UpDown.Horz] and [UpDown.Vert]. 
fearoffours
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 4:19 AM
Reply #6 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 4:19 AM
fearoffours grumbles about how there were already way too many things to skin in WB 2.
UBoB
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 5:23 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, July 3, 2002 5:23 AM
I think spin controls are something like spin doctors. 
moshi
Reply #8 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:07 AM
Reply #8 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:07 AM
i would really like some kind of WB lite, that only skins the window borders and the caption buttons. would be fun to skin for me.
MikeB314
Reply #9 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:20 AM
Reply #9 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:20 AM
Moshi, you don't have to skin everything if you don't want to. Any elements you leave unskinned will simply use the Windows Classic look.
moshi
Reply #10 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:49 AM
Reply #10 Thursday, July 4, 2002 7:49 AM
well my problem is that SkinStudio refuses to work without crashing every two minutes and my idea of that WB lite would have a new more logical code, so it can be done easily edited with a text editor. also there would be no point releasing a not even half-executed skin for WB and without the comments it wouldn´t be that fun.
doing a whole skin without help from SkinStudio is just not worth the effort for me (call me lazy, but i did that once for Blacksteel and i know what i´m talking about
).
doing a whole skin without help from SkinStudio is just not worth the effort for me (call me lazy, but i did that once for Blacksteel and i know what i´m talking about
).
Lord Vimal
Reply #11 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:07 AM
Reply #11 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:07 AM
dunno spin control??
let me tell u:
go to ur DATE and TIME properties (double click the CLOCK on ur taskbar)
u will find small combo box like thing near the TIME and YEAR. they r the spin controls...
look @ this @ 90 deg angle...
||
??
let me tell u:
go to ur DATE and TIME properties (double click the CLOCK on ur taskbar)
u will find small combo box like thing near the TIME and YEAR. they r the spin controls...
look @ this @ 90 deg angle...
||
??
Lord Vimal
Reply #12 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:09 AM
Reply #12 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:09 AM
hey...WINDOW BLINDS doesnt skin VB IDE (the FORM object in VB IDE)
whats happening??
whats happening??
Gregory Nashif
Reply #13 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:15 AM
Reply #13 Thursday, July 4, 2002 11:15 AM
I have no Idea what anyone is talking about, I have attempted many times to understand how to create a skin, but it is so confusing that I cannot even begin to fathom how to do it. I have used tutorals and still do not understand....
However I find this discussion very interesting, indeed.
However I find this discussion very interesting, indeed.
fearoffours
Reply #14 Thursday, July 4, 2002 4:45 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, July 4, 2002 4:45 PM
aha I see... thanks for the info vim. Gordon bennett what else is ther left unskinned?
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Reply #1 Tuesday, July 2, 2002 9:50 PM