Window blinds creating exe files
Friday, January 28, 2005 by Eddie Hill | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
As a small one man company i'm always on the lookout for new income perspectives.
i thought a lot about how i would be able to sell skins to company's and i came to
the conclusion that this is hard to do, every pc in the company needs wb to run.
but what if Window blinds can make executables? what if i can make any program execute
with the desired skin on it's own without WB to run it? Now i could write to company's and tell them
hey wouldn't it be nice if the program (acountants program?) has the look and feel of your company?
the skin should not be changeble and should aply to one program only. i could make cheap templates
you sell to small company's and i could make special onetime only designs for the richer company's.
I could make money!
Cheers Eddie
i thought a lot about how i would be able to sell skins to company's and i came to
the conclusion that this is hard to do, every pc in the company needs wb to run.
but what if Window blinds can make executables? what if i can make any program execute
with the desired skin on it's own without WB to run it? Now i could write to company's and tell them
hey wouldn't it be nice if the program (acountants program?) has the look and feel of your company?
the skin should not be changeble and should aply to one program only. i could make cheap templates
you sell to small company's and i could make special onetime only designs for the richer company's.
I could make money!
Cheers Eddie
MikeB314
Reply #2 Friday, January 28, 2005 9:25 AM
Reply #2 Friday, January 28, 2005 9:25 AM
Stardock does indeed make such software. It's called DirectSkin, and it uses the same skin format as WindowBlinds. In a nut shell, the software developer includes the DirectSkin OCX in their application, which makes it skinnable. The developer can choose whether they want to allow the user to select skins, or if they just want to use a single skin. As far as I know, it does not require the developer to re-write the software. They simply need to recompile it with the DirectSkin OCX. You can learn more about it here: http://www.directskin.com
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Reply #1 Friday, January 28, 2005 8:37 AM
Just my .02