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Binary
CURRENT BUILD: 4.3

Watercolor v4.3 is finally done, I believe that this skin may be one of if not the most bug free skins for Windows XP smile.gif I have squished all of the bugs people have mentiond (as far as my system can show me anyways)

Changelog:
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4.2:

Watercolor 4.2

4.2.3 (slight "fix" for people who wanted a 3 icon height in the system tray when the taskbar is 2 Heights; also fixed a minor vertical taskbar button bug pointed out by Tim, thanks Tim. All Font sizes: Normal, Large and Extra Large are working again in this build.) :

4.3 Fixes some more bugs and I cleaned up some controls again smile.gif

Watercolor 4.3

Changes from v3.1+ Include:

I believe I have fixed 99% if not 100% of the remaining bugs in this theme (hurray!)

The Skin is now almost Half of it's original size, yet it includes a 4th sub style, due to many optimizations of the skin (should also be faster on most systems).

New radiobuttons - no shadow

No more radio or checkbox bugs (hurray!)

Scrollbar bug mentioned before is fixed

Search Pane has proper skin matching colours

There are now .theme files for every colour version (requested)

There are now Normal, Large and Extra Large Font modes, without warping the theme!

Changed the font on the Frame Caption to Tahoma - the original font used in Whistler build 2419.

*You can always change this back to MS Trebuchet in the Properties - Appearance - Advanced - Active Title Bar

New Ergonomic Colour scheme - Lighter duller more "satisfying to look at" blue thanks to dj_night for the idea smile.gif

4.2+ Changes include:

- optimised a bit more by reducing colours in some files, and also by multiple use of bmp's within each colour variation.

- added a feature? where you can now see date, time and day in the systemtray with only 2 heights of the taskbar.

- cleaned up some controls.

- changed a few controls to better match the original watercolor style.

- Many other minor bug fixes and slight changes/improvements

- 4.3 Fixes some more bugs and I cleaned up some controls again smile.gif



And as always Please feel free to leave me any bug reports (I hope there aren't anymore).

For bug reports you can contact me at: kmkkid at hotmail.com. Please don't add me to your msn contact lists; unless I know you I just block everyone (not to be mean, I just hate MSN bothering me all the time)

Thanks for all the help over the past year ( I forget how long) months smile.gif And I hope you all enjoy it biggrin.gif

Chris

Download:
Watercolor 4.3



I've also attached a copy of Watercolor 2.11, information regarding that vidual style is available here, Download Watercolor Lite 2.11.

biggrin.gif Now everyone can enjoy Watercolor again, Binary just sent me the latest (and last) version of Watercolor and Watercolor Lite to host, so enjoy ~ Dazzla
techquilla
any screenies.........?
lytfear
all i have to say is, "wow." this is a very nice theme....
Dazzla
762 kb!! You've gotta be kidding. I'm not a broadband user biggrin.gif biggrin.gif



This is one of those themes that makes me want to fire up my laptop and use XP for a while, especially the new colour scheme.
Binary
Oh right I guess I better post one before the trolls come out from under they're bridges tongue.gif





*edit* picture moved to first post



Chris
Silvorgold
congratz on getting the theme out biggrin.gif
Impulfusion
sweet man. great simple and clean...kepp up that great work... i cant wait for V5.0 now tongue.gif
Bain
awesome work yet again "Binary" smile.gif
Binary
v5.0? :confused: I hope not! tongue.gif biggrin.gif
babis
wow.. I can't believe I live the day to see v4.0 out ;-)



I'll check it out when i get back on my comp (within 2weeks) Thanks binary... ya I agree with dazzla, this new color seems intrresting to test out...



again congrats and kudos on finally releasing this beast ;-) (rumor has it the file has shrunk ahha.. great job again)
havyn
thanks for keeping with it and going all the way binary...it's been a wonderful ride!
Porkey
u 0wn binary!



nice theme again... like the new color scheme!
shockz
Wow! Great Job Binary! I thought v3.1 was great, but this is awesome. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this theme smile.gif
ThunderRiver
Good Job! It is one of the best themes ever smile.gif



Thunder
freeza
man, that ergonomic scheme almost makes me want to re-install XP just to use it





any chance of you porting it to WB, binary?
redrope
Wow really great theme. I have always liked watercolor. It has that classic sense to it. Great work.
sp00nman
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Originally posted by redrope

Wow really great theme. I have always liked watercolor. It has that classic sense to it. Great work.




Agreed. Great work man, looks awesome. This theme will always be a contender!
pulp
brilliant work Binary, this is really the best and most usable xp theme out there.



smile.gif
MaRkY
Great Job Binary smile.gif Congratulations, I always loved this theme, nice to see a new version wink.gif
BroChaos
simply awesome.
Systematic
WOW looks great !!!
iconman
Nice job Binary
uniacid
NICE!! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif, now how about a winamp and trillian skin plz? biggrin.gif
Toxikk
i love this theme. nice work binary!



edit: a nice gray winamp2 theme would be really sweet.



*hint hint*
sanctified
the best and most simple theme so far



binary, please, send me the msstyles, I want to edit it for personal use, if thats ok with you, Im asking this because I cant open the msstyles in stylebuilder
Hexum
Thank you so very much Binary for such great work on this vs.



so will anyone make the winamp and trillian skin to match the ergonomic blue?? i have the regular blue in both, but i'm switching to the darker........ smile.gif
bigmoose
awesome work!!! been waiting a long time, and its all worth it!
hackr86
beautiful smile.gif
Tesseract
Looks great, Binary! The "Ergonomic" color is a great addition to the theme. wink.gif
lytfear
i think we should get winamp skins to match each color scheme....if all possible. please.
Tesseract
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Originally posted by lytfear

i think we should get winamp skins to match each color scheme....if all possible. please.




This would be good too.
lawtai
there's skins that match the three colors that were in 3.1. The winamp skin is called XPamp. I'm pretty sure you can find them on deviantart. There hasn't been any skin for the ergonomic color though, that'd be nice to have.
Toxikk
i found it but i cant download it...



anyone got it?



http://www.deviantart.com/deviation.php?id=122175
lytfear
nope....wtf
Tesseract
I can't d/l it either.
xWeston
mirrors for watercolor v4 anyone?
Binary
Shouldnt need any mirrors themexp is pretty stable and fast, occasionally they have minor site errors that are usually corrected within 10 minutes. But I will upload it to a few other skin sites tomorrow after work.



Chris
tarzan007
aw geeze, now i have to choose between copyright and watercolour :dead:



gw man
Toxikk
binary? you got the winamp skin somewheres? me wants silver.
uniacid
heh me wants blue one!!! biggrin.gif and a better trillian skin then the one on trillians site.
Groovedude
nice wink.gif Well done
lawtai
I've got the winamp skin for the bright blue, but that's it, none of the other colors since I really only use the blue. I'll host it, so you can get it here.



http://files.taibros.com/XPAmp.wsz



bright blue winamp skin. The others you'll have to get from deviantart when it works again.
kennisonxgs
I got the other 2 colors. I have no webspace, so I can't upload. Email me if you want it. I'll check the email in an hour before I go to sleep.

kennisonxgs@yahoo.com
uniacid
THX!!! lawtai biggrin.gif now a good trillian skin? tongue.gif
Kame
This is the ONLY theme I've ever used or stuck to more than 15 mins. I have tried almost every theme that has come out so far but they just don't have the simple yet elegant look compared to this skin. Anyways, thanks bro!
kennisonxgs
Just sent them to you uniacid.

Now you guys can bug him for them instead since he said he can host it. wink.gif
Wysie
Great theme!
BroChaos
Blue







Silver







Green





enjoy wink.gif
Hexum
Quote -
Originally posted by BroChaos

Blue







Silver







Green





enjoy wink.gif




what about ergonomic blue BroChaos?? smile.gif
BroChaos
heh, i don't make skins yet tongue.gif



those are just mirrors wink.gif
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