Windowblinds wishing list
Friday, August 30, 2002 by treetog | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I thought about openning this thread to be used as a direct line with windowblinds developers, for us to place here wour wishes, bug reports, etc...
So, let me make my number one wish.
When we use transparency on scroll bars, it allways have problems on IE and Outlook Express, showing a blank image on it's borders.
Is this just a bug or it will be allways like that? This is really anoying, because users thinks that it is a skin bug, when it is not.
Could you guys over Stardock fix that?
So, let me make my number one wish.
When we use transparency on scroll bars, it allways have problems on IE and Outlook Express, showing a blank image on it's borders.
Is this just a bug or it will be allways like that? This is really anoying, because users thinks that it is a skin bug, when it is not.
Could you guys over Stardock fix that?
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Sylva
Reply #22 Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:54 PM
Reply #22 Saturday, August 31, 2002 7:54 PM
I'd really like a way to specify two or more color changes when using color masks for custom color skins. Would there actually be a way to do that (might have to use more than one mask image for each section though, don't know) or do you think it would just slow it all down too much?
Dangeruss
Reply #23 Saturday, August 31, 2002 8:17 PM
Reply #23 Saturday, August 31, 2002 8:17 PM
XP shellstyle.dll skinning tops my list. Anything other than blue luna-ish skins look like crap with the stock luna shellstyle glaring at you from the left panel. I end up using the "classic" style left panel and missing out on some cool XP features.
Alexandrie
Reply #24 Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:21 PM
Reply #24 Saturday, August 31, 2002 10:21 PM
1) be able to color custom all font effect
2) be able to add buttons like on title bar but on start pannel (ex: add a clickable website link)
3) be able to use any kind of smartbuttons, min max close help, so user can choose what ever they want to the place they want in order they want to a place definited by the skinner.
4) replace the seperation bar on toolbar
5) be able to have a background for toolbar that will only stretch or tiled to next line not over that.
6) be able to have a grip that will use all the vertical space line to line.
7) replace the top and bottom line of the toolbar.
8) replace the left part of the window in windows XP
9) be able to use special background behind tabs buttons.
10) be able to use larger borders for tab
11) be able to use background in the tab
12) be able to change font and font color into list header buttons of XP
13) to have a background skinnable on combobox, not only borders.
14) to have transparency support for menu border.
2) be able to add buttons like on title bar but on start pannel (ex: add a clickable website link)
3) be able to use any kind of smartbuttons, min max close help, so user can choose what ever they want to the place they want in order they want to a place definited by the skinner.
4) replace the seperation bar on toolbar
5) be able to have a background for toolbar that will only stretch or tiled to next line not over that.
6) be able to have a grip that will use all the vertical space line to line.
7) replace the top and bottom line of the toolbar.
8) replace the left part of the window in windows XP
9) be able to use special background behind tabs buttons.
10) be able to use larger borders for tab
11) be able to use background in the tab
12) be able to change font and font color into list header buttons of XP
13) to have a background skinnable on combobox, not only borders.
14) to have transparency support for menu border.
Tarkus
Reply #25 Sunday, September 1, 2002 12:09 AM
Reply #25 Sunday, September 1, 2002 12:09 AM
The ability to automatically install fonts tops my list. I've recently almost threw newly downloaded skins away, because they looked like crap. Then I realized they had fonts in their folders, and the crappy looking skin all of a sudden looked great after installing their font. Makes me wonder how many good skins I've trashed in the past because of this.
treetog
Reply #26 Sunday, September 1, 2002 2:19 AM
Reply #26 Sunday, September 1, 2002 2:19 AM
boy! I think I found I big head dache for Windowblinds developers...
Sorry, Neil and Co.
Ah! One more: be able to set "content margins" for vertical XP taskbar buttons and systray
I couldn't resist to place one more
Sorry, Neil and Co.
Ah! One more: be able to set "content margins" for vertical XP taskbar buttons and systray
I couldn't resist to place one more
DavidK
Reply #27 Sunday, September 1, 2002 2:50 AM
Reply #27 Sunday, September 1, 2002 2:50 AM
I think that one got fixed already treetog... in 3.4c
Alexandrie
Reply #28 Sunday, September 1, 2002 9:09 AM
Reply #28 Sunday, September 1, 2002 9:09 AM
MOUAHHHHHHHHH I told you it was fixed alraady treetog 
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #29 Sunday, September 1, 2002 1:21 PM
Reply #29 Sunday, September 1, 2002 1:21 PM
...a better version of Windows to go with WB...
treetog
Reply #30 Monday, September 2, 2002 10:20 AM
Reply #30 Monday, September 2, 2002 10:20 AM
David and Alex: Well, I am skinning wb using maybe the latest SkinStudio version and it still doesn't change the content margins of the vertical taskbar buttons. 
DavidK
Reply #31 Monday, September 2, 2002 10:54 AM
Reply #31 Monday, September 2, 2002 10:54 AM
Maybe it's broken again in the new build. I haven't tested it since the newest one came out. It was the button margins that messed me up before, plus the content margins. When I would set margins for the vertical taskbar buttons they would affect the horizontal buttons and not the vertical ones. I finally made a vertical taskbar that would work with no margins. I'll check it out later when I get my XP box up.
DavidK
Reply #32 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 2:34 PM
Reply #32 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 2:34 PM
It seems to be working here Renato... I'm running WB 3.4d and the vertical taskbar margins (button and content) are applied correctly. I haven't tried Skinstudio but that shouldn't matter since it was WB not applying the settings right that was broken.
jebland
Reply #34 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 3:59 PM
Reply #34 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 3:59 PM
I would also like for Windowblinds to apply an Iconpackager theme again. It has not worked on Win98 or Win 2k for me since the Iconpackager program was changed over to a new version back last winter. And, I would like to have the top 2 rows of pixels back on the tab border. (I don't know where they went, but they are missing now on all the themes I have.)
kwyjibo
Reply #35 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 9:53 PM
Reply #35 Tuesday, September 3, 2002 9:53 PM
My Requests
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By kwyjibo.
-Context menu 'magic purple' transparency.
-Vertical alignment of XP Start menu User Icon text
-Ability to specify font name, size, colour for every windowmetric that exists. Such as the context menu font, desktop icon font, tooltip font, Menubar font...
-Text entry/editbox skinning (sort of like comboboxes)
-Inner border skinning. ie: Open a copy of notepad with any skin running and you'll see an indent all around the program, surrounded by the skin, separating the scrollbars from the window edges.
-Spinner glyphs
-Combobox scrollbar skinning
-We have normal, top, and bottom menuitem bmps. Sometimes only a single item exists. menuitem.single would be nice...
-Classic XP start menu skinning, like context menus...
-Static(non-moving) scrollbar texture overlays, preferrably translucent, with different blend modes.
-Animated progress bars.
-Option to choose which state of a normal button is animated. ie: focused, default, or mouseover...
-Animated radio/checkbox mouseovers OR state changes, to create smooth transitions between on/off states. Perhaps a setting to automatically transition between two static images by fading them, like Sonique v1.x did with its play/pause/etc buttons
-Ability to overlay magic pink transparent images anywhere inside a window, overtop of its contents.
-Perhaps a separate scrollbar section for IE so that non IE scrollbars can take full advantage of TARGA transparency, while a secondary crap scrollbar could be included by skin authors for IE
-Better/Consistent/Intelligent tab skinning regardless of the type of tab a window is using. There seem to be two styles of tabs in Windows. Thicker tab borders would be great. Fully skinnable tab borders, not just the outer 3px.
-Proper MDI titlebar button behaviour and spacing. They don't wait to be unclicked. They respond immediately, and their spacing is quite wide apart.
-Titlebar button targa support. Targa support everywhere!
-Variable height/width XP taskbar.
-Transparent (magic purple) XP taskbar.
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By kwyjibo.
-Context menu 'magic purple' transparency.
-Vertical alignment of XP Start menu User Icon text
-Ability to specify font name, size, colour for every windowmetric that exists. Such as the context menu font, desktop icon font, tooltip font, Menubar font...
-Text entry/editbox skinning (sort of like comboboxes)
-Inner border skinning. ie: Open a copy of notepad with any skin running and you'll see an indent all around the program, surrounded by the skin, separating the scrollbars from the window edges.
-Spinner glyphs
-Combobox scrollbar skinning
-We have normal, top, and bottom menuitem bmps. Sometimes only a single item exists. menuitem.single would be nice...
-Classic XP start menu skinning, like context menus...
-Static(non-moving) scrollbar texture overlays, preferrably translucent, with different blend modes.
-Animated progress bars.
-Option to choose which state of a normal button is animated. ie: focused, default, or mouseover...
-Animated radio/checkbox mouseovers OR state changes, to create smooth transitions between on/off states. Perhaps a setting to automatically transition between two static images by fading them, like Sonique v1.x did with its play/pause/etc buttons
-Ability to overlay magic pink transparent images anywhere inside a window, overtop of its contents.
-Perhaps a separate scrollbar section for IE so that non IE scrollbars can take full advantage of TARGA transparency, while a secondary crap scrollbar could be included by skin authors for IE
-Better/Consistent/Intelligent tab skinning regardless of the type of tab a window is using. There seem to be two styles of tabs in Windows. Thicker tab borders would be great. Fully skinnable tab borders, not just the outer 3px.
-Proper MDI titlebar button behaviour and spacing. They don't wait to be unclicked. They respond immediately, and their spacing is quite wide apart.
-Titlebar button targa support. Targa support everywhere!
-Variable height/width XP taskbar.
-Transparent (magic purple) XP taskbar.
messybuu
Reply #36 Wednesday, September 4, 2002 10:11 AM
Reply #36 Wednesday, September 4, 2002 10:11 AM
-Titlebar button targa support. Targa support everywhere!
Actually, WindowBlinds does support that right now. But to enable it, you have to add "UsesTran=1" without the quotes in the Personality section.
Actually, WindowBlinds does support that right now. But to enable it, you have to add "UsesTran=1" without the quotes in the Personality section.
CheeseCow
Reply #37 Thursday, September 5, 2002 7:49 AM
Reply #37 Thursday, September 5, 2002 7:49 AM
I wan't the sliders to be skinnable, the ones in the volume controls, you know?
Also I want a way to skin the explorer bars, optionally by linking to a shellstyle.dll.
And font loading as well.
Also I want a way to skin the explorer bars, optionally by linking to a shellstyle.dll.
And font loading as well.
Urban1
Reply #38 Thursday, September 5, 2002 8:20 AM
Reply #38 Thursday, September 5, 2002 8:20 AM
evey time i start up a new window, the window is not skinned, i wish that it could be fixed
Judge
Reply #39 Thursday, September 5, 2002 4:05 PM
Reply #39 Thursday, September 5, 2002 4:05 PM
- PNGs instead of Targa.
- PNGs everywhere.
- Making the skinned buttons in IE on XP use the correct text color (maybe you fixed that already?).
- PNGs everywhere.
- Making the skinned buttons in IE on XP use the correct text color (maybe you fixed that already?).
kwyjibo
Reply #40 Friday, September 6, 2002 9:07 AM
Reply #40 Friday, September 6, 2002 9:07 AM
More requests:
Additional Scrollbar Tray click states. Instead of a single state regardless of whether the up/down (or left/right) scrollbar button is pressed, i'd like the scrollbar tray to display a different image for these states:
up button pressed
down button pressed
the vertical tray itself is clicked
the vertical scrollbar is clicked/dragged
left button pressed
right button pressed
the horizontal tray itself is clicked
the horizonal scrollbar is clicked/dragged
Additional Scrollbar Tray click states. Instead of a single state regardless of whether the up/down (or left/right) scrollbar button is pressed, i'd like the scrollbar tray to display a different image for these states:
up button pressed
down button pressed
the vertical tray itself is clicked
the vertical scrollbar is clicked/dragged
left button pressed
right button pressed
the horizontal tray itself is clicked
the horizonal scrollbar is clicked/dragged
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Reply #21 Saturday, August 31, 2002 5:17 PM