:: vS :: AMPed viSUAL STYLE beta TWO

[Ran Sagy]

Offtopic.. Now, thats what people get away with on Neowin these days ..

/me wonder how long are the admin team gonna sleep on this one ..

now back on topic. DiEMOS: nice to hear about trillian :)

[theprotege]

wow, this is nice, except for those buttons :blink:. i'd use it in a heartbeat if the buttons were normal...

[Chris2k]

ok, here are a couple of Screens, so you realize what I was talking about :)

Here you can see the font problem.

Kind of odd button implementation in the restart window :blink:

Hope this helps, as I really like your vs :D

[Tweaker]

DiEMOS,

Here are a few more problems that you'll want to see if you can fix. The screen shot show the caption bar for the Calculator. Notice that the image of the calculator appears to be above of the caption bar. Looks like you'll need to increase the size of the caption bar by a pixel or two. Some images appear ok but this is one that does not.

In the other part of the screen shot are the Horizontal & Vertical scroll bar in MS Word. You'll see that the scrolls appear to be missing pixels. MS Word is the only program that I have noticed this problem in.

[+StevoFC MVC]

ps. about the theme, trillain and samurize skin is works ;)

someone made a trilian skin to match XPAmp but he never released it yet. and someone also made samurize skins. You should ask them if they can just change a few things for you to make it easier.

[GungaDin19]

Hey SteveFC, Diemos, NooDle and Tweaker,

Has the thought come to mind to possibly work on this theme together? I'm not sure how you guys feel about people modifying your VS's but htis is just a suggestion.

SteveFC and NooDle, not to flame you or anything cause we've all been there, but if you are really busy and don't have the time or will to finish your winamp5 VS, perhaps Diemos would use some of your help?

Diemos, would you be willing take some input from SteveFC and Noodle? They have things in their vs that I like better and could possibly help you with the un-fixable problems you've mentioned.

And Tweaker seems to know how to fix things (imagine that :D ) and is willing to do so.

I don't know how you guys feel about this but it's worth a shot. It seems like you guys could make a killer Winamp5 VS in no time.

[theprotege]

Hey SteveFC, Diemos, NooDle and Tweaker,

Has the thought come to mind to possibly work on this theme together? I'm not sure how you guys feel about people modifying your VS's but htis is just a suggestion.

SteveFC and NooDle, not to flame you or anything cause we've all been there, but if you are really busy and don't have the time or will to finish your winamp5 VS, perhaps Diemos would use some of your help?

Diemos, would you be willing take some input from SteveFC and Noodle? They have things in their vs that I like better and could possibly help you with the un-fixable problems you've mentioned.

And Tweaker seems to know how to fix things (imagine that :D ) and is willing to do so.

I don't know how you guys feel about this but it's worth a shot. It seems like you guys could make a killer Winamp5 VS in no time.

OMFG, is that teamwork...suggested on NEOWIN?...NOOOOOO, that can't be....holy **** it is....

GungaDin19, i :beer: you...nice man, very nice...

[Tweaker]

Hey SteveFC, Diemos, NooDle and Tweaker,

Has the thought come to mind to possibly work on this theme together? I'm not sure how you guys feel about people modifying your VS's but htis is just a suggestion.

SteveFC and NooDle, not to flame you or anything cause we've all been there, but if you are really busy and don't have the time or will to finish your winamp5 VS, perhaps Diemos would use some of your help?

Diemos, would you be willing take some input from SteveFC and Noodle? They have things in their vs that I like better and could possibly help you with the un-fixable problems you've mentioned.

And Tweaker seems to know how to fix things (imagine that :D ) and is willing to do so.

I don't know how you guys feel about this but it's worth a shot. It seems like you guys could make a killer Winamp5 VS in no time.

You do understand that StevoFC & n00dle are in direct competition with DiEMOS on who can make the best Winamp 5 style. It would be nice though if everyone could bring it together to make one killer style.

[GungaDin19]

Yes I suspected that but I've also read that SteveFC and nOOdle are short on time and are not in a hurry at all to finish their vs. That's ok and we all understand. I was just making a suggestion.

Tweaker, would it be possible to give me a small tutorial on how to extend the margins of the start menu so that it can show my user pic? I've asked Diemos if he could make one and this is what he said to do but I'm not very good with stylebuilder. I don't think Diemos would have a problem with you showing me this as it would be for my personal use only (my user pic is a picture from my wedding last year and I'd like to use it).

If Diemos needs me to ask for his permission then here it is: "Diemos, can Tweaker help me make the start menu a little larger for my own personal use?"

Thanks guys

[DiEMOS]

Competition? hehe

GundaDin19, what kind of question is that, ha... of course you can bro :) in fact, msg me later on tonight, if i'll have time i'll help u.

I started college again(in college now) so i don't have that much time either... the next release should be much better one w/ less bugs and slightly different, here is what i'm planning to do in beta TWO . 0:

fix: buttons, progressbar, leds, scrollbars & add shellstyle(hopefully) and if we're lucky rainledar,trillian and samurize skins.

In addition, i will be coloring the taskbars and perhaps making them a bit better/smoother/sexier.... Start button will be redone aswell(I think) to a better quality, haha... Leds will be GONE from the taskbar... they just don't fit, i was planning to take them out in ONE.8 but i forgat. Another thing....

I need someone who can make a shellstyle, its such a pain in the ass to do, i cannot do it... so if anyone is willing to do one, please PM me...

Stevo thanx for that idea.

Tweaker thank you for the buttons you send me, i still havnt had the time to check them out, i'll check them when i have some free time.

[Ran Sagy]

Your plans sound really nice, looking forward to beta2 :)

[GSDragoon]

I love the green version

[David983es]

For all of you having a problem with the tabs in Firebird, I came up with fix for use with this msstyle.

Dig down into the user profile until you find the chrome directory, find the userChrome.css file and open it with wordpad, notpad or editplus (windows notepad will not work correctly) and add the following lines just as they are here.

/* Change text color of normal tabs */

tab {

color: rgb(192,192,192) !important;

font-size: 12px !important;

}

/* Change text color of active tab */

tab[selected=true] {

color: white !important;

font-weight: bold !important;

}

If you do not have a userChrome.css file yet, use the sample provided (userChrome-example.css), add the above and save as userChrome.css

The colors can be changed to anything you want, I used white and gray as the match the style.

Really like the style and plan continuing to use it even with the bugs.

[m1ke_hawkis]

Thanks, now you can actually read the text on the tabs on Firebird.

Thanks again.

Mike

[DiEMOS]

thank you david for the fix :)

anyways here are some 'early' screenshots from beta TWO.0 ....

[Ran Sagy]

Where's the image :p

[DiEMOS]

damn, whats up with neowin, i've been trieng to post a reply for like half an hour.... sooo slow

anyways

beta TWO.0

[PIPE]

can't see the shot either

[DiEMOS]

xxx

[Viper118]

Looks like the forums are back up. Looks great, DiEMOS.

Lemme know if you need a beta tester. :p

[D!rtySh@dy]

DiEMOS when do you think release the new version of the AMPed viSUAL STYLE ????

Thanks

Edited February 7, 2004 by D!rtySh@dy

[Tweaker]

Great job on the buttons DiEMOS! Are they alpha blended? When can we expect to see an update?

[Paparazzi]

Yes indeed those buttons look very much better :)

In the last shot provided by DiEMOS, in the taskbar, wonder if there could be a glow put around the active one and a different coloured glow around the one the mouse hovers over! I know the XPAmp had that little spot bulb sort of which would light up in different colours, but it would be really nice if the glow could be all around it which would make identifying a lot easier.

Also, would be really helpful if the min, max, close buttons could be made a couple of pixels larger.

And like all the others, I await the beta TWO.0 :)

Cheers

[PIPE]

Yeah, glows would look great if you say that every scheme will be coloured now ;)

[Dude]

This one's awesome. Thanks.