How long you been doing this stuff?

Skinning and using skins

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

So how long have you been into "skinning? When did you get started?

For me, my journey began with IBM's OS/2 back in 1994.  Me and my friend Kurt Westerfeld hated the way OS/2 looked so when we made Object Desktop, we designed a new "look" for it that changed title bars, scrollbars, title bar buttons, etc.  When we did version 2, we made it so that other people could create their own looks for it.

In 1997 when we designed up the specs for a Windows version of Object Desktop, we wanted a component that could provide new looks for Windows (later called skins) and teamed up with Neil Banfield to lead that effort. 

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Scarebear
Reply #41 Friday, May 6, 2005 7:48 AM
I started skinning in late '99 with Sonique and MPFree. Then I discovered skinz.org and saw that there was plenty more to be skinned

Daiwa
Reply #42 Friday, May 6, 2005 1:27 PM
Icon-Do-It! got me started in the mid-90's on Win95. Win2K's GUI bored me - ran across an early version of WB (?1.x) 5-6 years ago (it seems) and it's been over ever since.

Cheers,
Daiwa

werewolf
Reply #43 Friday, May 6, 2005 5:53 PM
Lantec: My first program in basic was a Yahtzee score pad that I did on a Kaypro64 computer LOL.

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