Changing the color of your skins on the fly
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
A lot of people don't do this very much and it's really a shame because it can make one visual style into a thousand different ones.
I've been running one of his Kol's "Beige Azul" (imported into WindowBlinds). It's a good color by default but sometimes I just want to have a different color.
So to change that go into WBConfig and choose "enable color" and "force coloring" and then pick the color you want. I sometimes play around with the gamma too.
Here's an example:
I've thought about asking or writing a utility that would slowly change the hue of a given visual style as the day progresses. So each newly created window would have a slightly different color than the previously opened window. I think that would be pretty cool anyway (though I am a geek so maybe I'm alone in that).
But try it for yourself. Pick your favorite visual style and just play around with the color and brightness to see if you can make it more suited to your tastes/monitor/whatever.
Have fun.
Reply #2 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:55 AM
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Reply #3 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 5:19 AM
It seems to me that scripting for Windows FX might one day make the gradient shifting possible, not only te way you envision it, but in other ways too... for instance the title bar could run colors like a marquee... Kind of psychedelic sounding, I know, but i think also it could be done subtly with some finesse to make a more soothing effect..
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Reply #4 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 6:04 AM
Reply #5 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:57 AM
Would be great to have an application like that. Make sure to add an option that the whole skin is changing, so in the morning it is something like blue and when the day ends it will slowly turn into dark red or something, that would be awesome! 
Reply #6 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 8:07 AM
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Reply #1 Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:44 AM