Some clean and powerful coding there. Noticed page spoke about 98, too lazy to reboot, installed in XP, works like a charm (even with a style applied - that's ugly but it tells something about coding). I know some people in 98 who are gonna love this ... awesome find!

That is one cute/sweet little app. I think a translation is begging to be done...

Works great in Win2k, btw.

When you say worked like a charm "even with a style applied" are you referring to the XP visual themes? I also installed in XP but since I only use the "Windows Classic" schemes, I didn't mention it in case those XP visual themes screwed with the operation of the BarChanger.
(BTW, I hate those XP themes. You only get three anyway which isn't much of a choice compared to the twenty-two you get with classic. And with classic you have the advanced custom color choices.)

98 users might find the install failing because OS has trouble with the - Japanese - names of the textures... cheated and just copied it from XP, it works with an .ini so it ran perfectly. Bad news, it doesn't like eppie and it doesn't like it if you've messed with captionwidth etc... noticed it can do very specific animations, defined by "bitstrips" (like the default bitmap) ? Nifty.

Yes, was referring to XP's themes - ofcourse I don't run the defaults provided with the OS ... anyway, they don't go together very well anyhow.

A translation ???

/me messes with this

nice find qoa, and it works wihtout any problem on XP SP1.

the only issue i had is that i needed to "read" the agreement till the end so that "Next" would become clickable.

translation... darn!, i opened in resource hacker and it doesn't contain any dialog or menu there ...

but we can translate it "graphically" and send the author the images, maybe he will agree to translate it then (i used this method before)

will see

I didn't find it, kinomoto did.

oopps, i read that you had the last reply in here and i interpreted that as you wrote the thread .

so now comes : good find kinomoto

sorry for the confusion

Just ran the manual trhough babelFish. Seems that aside from "skinning" the title bar, it can also set the position, font and colour of the title text, plus display a clock in your title bar.

/me adds this to his "check out" stack

By the way: last update september 2000...

...and it works with XP also . @_@

That's one nice piece of software.

i have created a little primer/translation of the control window:

its at Tek

http://www.teknidermy.com/news/article.php?sid=632&mode=nested&order=0

I'll have to try this out with LiteStep. Would be a nice lil touch. I can't use eppie, so I don't have to worry about that.

This would be a cool little addition to eppie actually.

I couldn't get eppie to work while using Bar Changer. ??
Progress on a translation?
I managed to use BabelFish to translate the names of the included graphics files:
Wood 3.jpg
Wood 4.jpg
Shirt 1.jpg
Shirt 2.jpg
Shirt 3.jpg
Shirt 4.jpg
Shirt 5.jpg
Shirt 6.jpg
Shirt 7.jpg
Denim.jpg
Knit.jpg
Block.jpg
Paisley.jpg
Modern.jpg
Brick.jpg
Brick 2.jpg
Brick 3.jpg
Animation - heater.jpg
Ball.jpg
Stone.jpg
Cloth 1.jpg
Cloth 2.jpg
Casual 1.jpg
Casual 2.jpg
Casual 3.jpg
Casual 4.jpg
Casual 5.jpg
Casual 6.jpg
Wood 5.jpg
Animation - loop.jpg
Animation - loop 2.jpg
Animation - flame.jpg
Penguin.jpg
Ruins.jpg
Wood 1.jpg
Wood 2.jpg
Animation - aqua.jpg
Animation - whale.jpg
Animation - psychedelic.jpg
Animation - psychedelic 2.jpg
Animation - X.jpg
The the blue bar which is dented.jpg
Animation - corridor.jpg
Animation - the sky the dolphin which it flies.jpg
Animation - water.jpg
Animation - cat.jpg
Computer 1.jpg
Camouflage 1.jpg
Camouflage 2.jpg
Camouflage 3.jpg
Camouflage 4.jpg
Leopard handle.jpg

nice job kenray

glad it made it as news on Tek

no progress on the translation tough

Do you guys think I should wait for a translation before I write an article on this app, or should I just go ahead and do it?

And does anybody know how an app like this would work?

Red, if you can wait for a week or so, i'm getting a realy try to translate this
And i'll start bugging the author to post an English translation

by the way, i thought i would mention this -

when i tried running the barchanger.exe install program, something goes wrong and i can only get it to extract two of the texture files, then it exits the program...

Just let me know if one is ready. An eglish version would make for a better review.

Any word on this thing?

Any progress on a translation?

check the news on the main page

Great piece of work!

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