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grindlestone - 11 Feb. 2003 - 05:51:
Help! An old XP skinning thread
A little while before VP was updated there was a thread that devolved into a ?discussion? on the best way of skinning/theme-ing windows. Someone posted an opinion that XP and the new msstyles (I think) was the best because it had a minimal performance hit. Said poster then explained the best way of doing a basic style which involved creating an msstyle (I think!) based on the ?classic? theme and then just changing a few simple things like min, max, close buttons etc., essentially to get an eppie like effect in XP. I?m interested in this and hope the poster can tell us again how they got the classic theme into an msstyle in the first place. Was it with style builder or is there a better way? Or am I wrong and it wasn?t an msstyle at all?
Here?s hoping.
Help! An old XP skinning thread
A little while before VP was updated there was a thread that devolved into a ?discussion? on the best way of skinning/theme-ing windows. Someone posted an opinion that XP and the new msstyles (I think) was the best because it had a minimal performance hit. Said poster then explained the best way of doing a basic style which involved creating an msstyle (I think!) based on the ?classic? theme and then just changing a few simple things like min, max, close buttons etc., essentially to get an eppie like effect in XP. I?m interested in this and hope the poster can tell us again how they got the classic theme into an msstyle in the first place. Was it with style builder or is there a better way? Or am I wrong and it wasn?t an msstyle at all?
Here?s hoping.
Ahhh, rather than using a skin suite, using things like Eppie, T-Clock2 and 3DCC to just change things in a 98 or 2K classic appearance, rather than change the whole GUI? But the XP equivalant.
I see what you mean now, I think I was totally barking up the wrong tree
I see what you mean now, I think I was totally barking up the wrong tree
Hah, I'll be held responsible for that post 
. You've basically got the idea; the thing with the Windows GUI is it is almost completely "chrome" squares with a bevel - so you could make a theme out of one small bitmap (I know there'd be a few things to modify, but...) with "stretch points" (dunno the correct jargon there...). You really can't take my word on much of this, but I'm going to try it right now and report back to you.
. You've basically got the idea; the thing with the Windows GUI is it is almost completely "chrome" squares with a bevel - so you could make a theme out of one small bitmap (I know there'd be a few things to modify, but...) with "stretch points" (dunno the correct jargon there...). You really can't take my word on much of this, but I'm going to try it right now and report back to you. Dang, I forgot the pressed states . It would be a little harder then . Maybe there's still a theme out there that's minimal enough to be altered (plastic's comes to mind, it could be desaturated or whatever).
. It would be a little harder then . Maybe there's still a theme out there that's minimal enough to be altered (plastic's comes to mind, it could be desaturated or whatever).Buggy thing, though I still run it. I'm actually working a bit on it to improve it lately, I'm the one person in the world that registered stylebuilder since a week 
. Anyway, it's at skinbase - where else - if anyone wants it: http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=3443
I'm removing all the stupid gradients, hover bugs for startmenu/taskbar, replacing startbutton and some more atm. But even with the stylebuilder it's a hard to grasp format...
. Anyway, it's at skinbase - where else - if anyone wants it: http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?id=3443
I'm removing all the stupid gradients, hover bugs for startmenu/taskbar, replacing startbutton and some more atm. But even with the stylebuilder it's a hard to grasp format...
Plastic:
What resolution are you running your theme at? I am at 1024x768 and the bold font in my Start menu looks squished. My battery gauge that looks fine in the normal XP theme, as well as the classic does as well. Any ideas why this happens?
Here are some screenshots.
Thanks.
What resolution are you running your theme at? I am at 1024x768 and the bold font in my Start menu looks squished
. My battery gauge that looks fine in the normal XP theme, as well as the classic does as well. Any ideas why this happens?
Here are some screenshots.
Thanks
.It seems my battery gauge is gradually adjusting to the theme 
. It is now fine vertically, but squished horizontally. Perhaps in an hour or so, it will be back to normal.
( crosses fingers )
Looks like I might have to modify the weather monitor's background to match the colors - the snowman looks a little out of place.
. It is now fine vertically, but squished horizontally. Perhaps in an hour or so, it will be back to normal.
( crosses fingers )
Looks like I might have to modify the weather monitor's background to match the colors - the snowman looks a little out of place
.I would like to know a lot more about this in fact because I am using XP styles to literally skin everything. It does have it's good points that is skins the Webview, but I do miss the whole idea of the "Classic" look, and I miss my old clean taskbar more than you could imagine I don't even use T-Clock2 anymore
I don't even use T-Clock2 anymore
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