Any day now... ;)
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 by grayhaze | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Just thought some of you might like to know that dinksDX is very near to completion. This is a complete redesign and rebuild of my very first skin, designed to support all the new features of WB4, and with more power besides.
If you want a sneak peek, take a look here:
http://grayhaze.com/images/dinksDX_inprogress.jpg
If I don't release this thing by the end of the week, you all have my permission to point and call me names.
If you want a sneak peek, take a look here:
http://grayhaze.com/images/dinksDX_inprogress.jpg
If I don't release this thing by the end of the week, you all have my permission to point and call me names.
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grayhaze
Reply #2 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:26 PM
Reply #2 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:26 PM
By the way, the image is low quality on purpose. Begone evil rippers. 
Jafo
Reply #3 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:30 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:30 PM
Looking forward to calling grayhaze names....could be fun...
Gadget Girl
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:30 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:30 PM
Very nice!!!!
Looking forward to the end of the week!!
Looking forward to the end of the week!!
grayhaze
Reply #5 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:34 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:34 PM
You can't have any new ones left to call me Paul.
I'd just like to say that whoever decided to put so much new stuff into WB4 obviously had no idea how insane it would drive me trying to keep up! I actually spent a matter of hours just trying to get the little '+' and '-' on a treeview to look pixel perfect. I shouldn't be allowed to skin...
I'd just like to say that whoever decided to put so much new stuff into WB4 obviously had no idea how insane it would drive me trying to keep up! I actually spent a matter of hours just trying to get the little '+' and '-' on a treeview to look pixel perfect. I shouldn't be allowed to skin...
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #6 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:35 PM
Reply #6 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:35 PM
Dinks was always my fave skin. Will be great to have the update.
Fuzzy Logic jumps up and down with excitement
Fuzzy Logic jumps up and down with excitement
grayhaze
Reply #8 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:50 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:50 PM
Now if only that WBAmp title wasn't just a black bar...
T-Man
Reply #9 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:52 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:52 PM
Dinks has always been one of my favorite skins. Am looking forward to your release.
MadIce
Reply #10 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:55 PM
Reply #10 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:55 PM
hehe
Yes. As you might have noticed, this bug appears in all builds of WBAmp. WB broke an internal WB Plugin API function. That is an issue that is being addressed. It will be fixed in one of the next releases of WB.
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Yes. As you might have noticed, this bug appears in all builds of WBAmp. WB broke an internal WB Plugin API function. That is an issue that is being addressed. It will be fixed in one of the next releases of WB.
[Message Edited]
davad70
Reply #11 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 11:52 PM
Reply #11 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 11:52 PM
Looks like I need to clear a place on my mantle for a new favorite skin.
Styl-X Design
Reply #12 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 12:21 AM
Reply #12 Wednesday, June 4, 2003 12:21 AM
Wow, like the 'nametag' of the windows... its half trancparant 
grayhaze
Reply #13 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:42 PM
Reply #13 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:42 PM
Well things are progressing nicely. I just have a few small bugs to fix, and some general tidying up, and then hopefully I'll be releasing 'dinksDX' by Saturday night at the latest. This has all been quite a learning experience, and a major headache in some instances, as this is the first time I've done most of this stuff. A rogue spelling mistake didn't help much either.
Here's a look at the latest progress, which is intended more for getting some early pre-release feedback more than simply hyping up a new skin.
http://grayhaze.com/images/dinksDX_inprogress.jpg
Let me know what you think, and any areas you'd like to see improved. One thing I'm considering doing at the moment is lightening the white titlebar buttons a little, and possibly losing the multi-colour mouseovers on them.
Here's a look at the latest progress, which is intended more for getting some early pre-release feedback more than simply hyping up a new skin.
http://grayhaze.com/images/dinksDX_inprogress.jpg
Let me know what you think, and any areas you'd like to see improved. One thing I'm considering doing at the moment is lightening the white titlebar buttons a little, and possibly losing the multi-colour mouseovers on them.
grayhaze
Reply #14 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:44 PM
Reply #14 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:44 PM
By the way, at this point in time every part of Windows is skinned that I'm aware of WindowBlinds supporting. The parts not supported by SkinStudio were something of a mind-bender.
deleted
Reply #15 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:51 PM
Reply #15 Thursday, June 5, 2003 4:51 PM
The menu that you show in the screenshot appears to be slightly off-white. Maybe you could try making it whiter and see if you like it. Just MHO.
Hus
Reply #16 Thursday, June 5, 2003 7:34 PM
Reply #16 Thursday, June 5, 2003 7:34 PM
Grayhaze, how bout making some custom shell images? Just an idea...
grayhaze
Reply #17 Friday, June 6, 2003 2:47 AM
Reply #17 Friday, June 6, 2003 2:47 AM
DavidMandle>> The off-white of the menu background is intentional so that there's a slight highlight along the top edge. I'm going to try lightening a few parts of the skin today, so I'll see if it makes sense to do the same to the menus. I tend to think that too much pure white in an interface can cause eye strain, and I'm really aiming for this to be a long-term useable OS skin.
Hus>> I take it you're talking about the background images in the main explorer windows which are currently enlargements of standard XP icons. While I considered creating my own images, I decided that the designers at Microsoft got things right the first time. So rather than creating images which potentially conflict with whatever icons the user has installed, I thought it made far more sense to simply recolour and resize the original images to match the skin.
Perhaps if someone at some point decided to make an icon theme to match the skin, then I could use those in place of the originals. While I'm capable of creating simple icons in small numbers, I don't think a whole theme is within my abilities or patience.
Hus>> I take it you're talking about the background images in the main explorer windows which are currently enlargements of standard XP icons. While I considered creating my own images, I decided that the designers at Microsoft got things right the first time. So rather than creating images which potentially conflict with whatever icons the user has installed, I thought it made far more sense to simply recolour and resize the original images to match the skin.
Perhaps if someone at some point decided to make an icon theme to match the skin, then I could use those in place of the originals. While I'm capable of creating simple icons in small numbers, I don't think a whole theme is within my abilities or patience.
Tryzub
Reply #18 Friday, June 6, 2003 6:40 AM
Reply #18 Friday, June 6, 2003 6:40 AM
I favor the colour of the Titlebar as it is. If you were to change anything (for the sake of font to background contrast), you could make the font text a bit darker, if it's possible to do so. I'm afraid that if you lightened the buttons (as you mentioned in #13) too much, you may lose the shadow effect.
Fantastic skin, grayhaze.
Fantastic skin, grayhaze.
Jachyra
Reply #19 Friday, June 6, 2003 7:28 AM
Reply #19 Friday, June 6, 2003 7:28 AM
Being a lover of blue in Themes/WB/DX, I'm really anxious to download this
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Reply #1 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 4:26 PM