[VS] Luna

[Xeon Inc.]

My lunaVX D-top

and he is using my wallpaper that i did...well fixed...nice going

[Dazza]

@lazarus

You know, that picture has been included in some other VS's. I cant remember the real name, but ive seen alot of names for it. Here's a few:

"Another Bliss"

"Blackcomb"

"Bliss 2"

Go to themexp.org and search there. Im sure that you will find it there, but I cant remeber exactly what its real name is sorry!

Now Im about to do another exam ( :angry: ) but before I started It I though id come in here and see what's goin on.

Ive noticed a few people have found it a bit daunting when installing all of the things for the Visual Style. Seeing as we're getting more and more things to include, I thought that I might help people out a bit by doing two things.

1. We make 2 archives: a noremal one, and a self-extracting one with options on what to extract.

2. Since even the more experienced people find it annoying changing every aspect of their VS setup each time they get a new one, I reckon I can make a few registry files to automatically set every single part of the theme. VS, cursors, Bootscreen, Logon, icons, wallpaper, samurize, (if we get them, sounds)... everything including the kitchen sink! The best part of that is I can manually set paths for the bootscreen and logon so you dont need to replace the originals! Of course, I'll make another one to restore to default, and you d need to know that playing with the registry can be aggrivating a t times, and you should always be careful... But hey, Im a nice guy, I though I might try and help out a bit! :p

[OSUDragon]

Hey icedevil, where is this wallpaper from?

There was a thread here on Neowin a while back about Bliss remake wallpapers, chances are you can find it there.

[OldeCrow]

looks nice oldecrow

but those icons ..well in my opinion loook ok but there to child like---my point of making luna was to get rid of the fisher price feel of luna...hope that made sence...but nice desktop on ther otherhand..i like it but not my style of icons hope i havent offended you

nope im not offended :D

I just gave up and joined the bubbly fisher price cult ;)

BuG

The wallpaper is from the wallpaper section here on neowin i think ..

the file name i have for it is post-20-1052169160 if thats going to help any :D

[Dazza]

@OldeCrow

Have you made log off and shutdown dialogs to go with your logon screen?

I love the logon BTW, its so l33t and sl33k. :drool: :ninja:

[agt]

Indeed. You need 10+ posts on DesignTechnika before you can use the database:):)

Couch Potato?

Actually they've changed it now so you get manually added to the group that can downlo:whistle:tle:

[OldeCrow]

@OldeCrow

Have you made log off and shutdown dialogs to go with your logon screen?

I love the logon BTW, its so l33t and sl33k. :drool: :ninja:

I certainly can :)

Ill work on logoff shutdown dialogs tommorow and see what i can come up with :D

If you or Xeon can come up with a good set of buttons for it

"switch user" "logoff" "standby" "turnoff" "restart"

something like the ones on the startpanel maybe ?

i can use the two different buttons that are in the start panel now but it would be nice to have unique buttons for each and im not very good at making buttons :D

[futb0l]

this theme is almost the same as RebornL2 but better :)

[blueshirt]

I certainly can :)

Ill work on logoff shutdown dialogs tommorow and see what i can come up with :D

If you or Xeon can come up with a good set of buttons for it

"switch user" "logoff" "standby" "turnoff" "restart"

something like the ones on the startpanel maybe ?

i can use the two different buttons that are in the start panel now but it would be nice to have unique buttons for each and im not very good at making buttons :D

The ones in the startpanel is nice. Although alternates is good.

[Xeon Inc.]

registry files would be a really nice touch to the theme archive dazza

[OldeCrow]

registry files would be a really nice touch to the theme archive dazza

yes it would !

You can set the default msstyle and theme in the registry to LunaVX and then the scrollbars in the logon will come from LunaVX instead of default luna.

I know it would be easier to just put the scrollbars in the logon but i dont like to reinvent the wheel :)

actually a tight little application that would let you select the windows default theme and msstyle would be pretty slick for that .. then you could change it to whatever style you want to use and the scrollbars in the logon would always match your style ;)

[]EGG[]

OldeCrow - Could you P L E A S E tell me how to get the same start button you have in your recent desktop screenie (As Dazzla also has in his in the April desktops page) that actually says the word 'Start' with the Windows flag rather than the shutdown symbol?

Thanks v much :)

[Ethere]

I must say, that I just began to use this theme, and OMG, it's incredible....to all involved, great job!

[aggrophobik]

EGG[,Apr 1 2004, 19:57] OldeCrow - Could you P L E A S E tell me how to get the same start button you have in your recent desktop screenie (As Dazzla also has in his in the April desktops page) that actually says the word 'Start' with the Windows flag rather than the shutdown symbol?

Thanks v much :)

Yeah, I was kinda intrested in that Start Button as well.

[OldeCrow]

EGG[,Apr 1 2004, 16:57] OldeCrow - Could you P L E A S E tell me how to get the same start button you have in your recent desktop screenie (As Dazzla also has in his in the April desktops page) that actually says the word 'Start' with the Windows flag rather than the shutdown symbol?

Thanks v much :)

its obviosly a personal mod of LunaVX

but all i did was take the first three states of the taskbar buttons and make a blank startbutton image out of them and then i reset the startbutton geometry so the normal flag and text would show

i think i had to change the startbutton text too

[Dazza]

Well guys, Ive finished all of my exams, and to celebrate, I decided to toy around with LunaVX for a while (by a while I mean 8 hours straight :blink: I need caffeine :sleep: ) (BTW I didnt JUST work on VX, I went out first :p).

Its funny, but for a VS tha'ts supposed to be 100% bug-free (as stated my me), I always manage to find SOMETHING to do... ;)

Anyhoo, I'll have all of my personal tests and whatnot done by tomorrow.

I might list some major changes I made so you can imagine what VX is like and drool for a while

? I made a Luna VX Screensaver! Dont get too excited, but it fits the VX theme to a tee rather than the default screensaver.

? They're not completely done yet, but Im making some cursors too. While i make them, I reccommend Dazzla's port of the BlueCurve Cursors, theyre awesome for this VS!

? I re-did my shellstyle. All the colours are different, and work seamlessly (I hope, still to test all of them) with all of the new colour tweaks I made in the VS.

? Major colour changes in the VS include:

? the window colour (not pure white anymore, a tint of blue)

? BALLON, TOOLIP, INFO and STATUS messages are no longer that annoying and iritating yellow colour! rejoice&:woot::woot:

? Combo, Spin, List and Text Boxes have all been completely redone. I gotta say these have driven me insane trying to get the no button when disabled thing to display the right colours... so i gave:rolleyes:lleyes: ) and made a nice silver disabled button. What's more, i put this silver button on the scroll arrows as well for consistency, and it really look quite sl33k

I've actually done a fair bit more than what I usually do when I update a theme, including making a (perfect) .theme file, some .reg files to apply the new screensaver and the wallpaper at the logon screen (and if someone can give me the correct registry key, I can add cursors to the logon screen too)...

The list just goes on for a bit more...

:drool::drool:

so check back on the weekend, and There's a good chance the next update will be ready to download!

See you all soon!

@Xeon,

Im on trillian a hell of alot now Xeon, but youre never online. EVER!

(I stand corr:pted. :p Trust you to come online when I finish the me:rolleyes:lleyes: )

Edited April 2, 2004 by Dazza

[Kane]

Here Dazza

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors\Schemes

[saphyre1024]

@Xeon,

Im on trillian a hell of alot now Xeon, but youre never online. EVER!

(I stand corrected. :p Trust you to come online when I finish the message  :rolleyes: )

;) w/ no such luck, he's off for the weekend, he'll be back sunday night

[caesar1996]

Damn Dazza, it's amazing that you could make such a great theme even better. can't wait. :woot:

[Dazza]

Hey, i really havent done that much :p

The biggest change you'll see is the shellstyle no doubt, and i think its pretty sweet. Still, I reckon I can make it better still.

And sapphyre, I talked to Xeon last night and sent him the theme, but I guess he isnt gonna update until monday. Come to think of it, He told me that when i sent the VS to him :happy:

Oh BTW, if you talk to him tell him I mixed up a few things in my shellstyle and i'll email him a better one before monday.

Cheers!

[Dazza]

Oh, and thanks DJ_souless! I'll look into is as soon as I get home.

Is that the one for the logon screen though? I would think that's just for the person logged in, and in my theme file I put some cursor links for that...

BTW when VX gets updated if you create a folder called "Cursors" in the LunaVX folder and put some cursors in there, when you apply the theme it'll apply the cursors too!

(Just make sure that the cursors are the same name as the ones in the theme file... open it with notepad to check, but most cursors these days seem to follow a standard naming format :p)

[Kane]

Oh, and thanks DJ_souless! I'll look into is as soon as I get home.

Is that the one for the logon screen though? I would think that's just for the person logged in, and in my theme file I put some cursor links for that...

BTW when VX gets updated if you create a folder called "Cursors" in the LunaVX folder and put some cursors in there, when you apply the theme it'll apply the cursors too!

(Just make sure that the cursors are the same name as the ones in the theme file... open it with notepad to check, but most cursors these days seem to follow a standard naming format :p)

If u want ppl to have cursors and stuff so that it can be installed simply by a reg, just set into a default directory on your computer (which ppl are gonna extract to like :example: C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\LunaVX\Cursors) Set it all up on your computer and it will saved into the default Directory in the reg for Cusor Schemes, Then export it. Pretty Simple

The directory where schemes are stored which u export are here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Cursors\Schemes

For the logon, you replace the directory the logon.exe. Look for the name UIhost.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

It's Pretty Simple really. just select both and click Export. and when someone

installs the reg. they have exactly the same as u! Simple.

[Dazzla Veteran]

I've only just used this for the first time :blush: and it's a quality theme! I've been on Windows Classic for ages but this has got me off it :| one request if I may though :whistle: any chance of the bundled wallpaper in a higher res? Like 1600 x 1200 :whistle: and possibly an option without the windows flag and text? :whistle:

Can't fault the theme, fantastic.

[Dazza]

Yeah I too wouldnt mind seeing a higher res pic too, possibly as a .bmp too. If its a bmp, not only do you not lose quality, but you can set it as the background pic at the logon (ive tried referencing .jpg's, but the system actually wants to convert the image to a .bmp before it will apply it, so if you make a direct reference to a .jpg file the background is just black)

And thanks again DJ! Youre making this easier for me each time I come back online.

And thanks for the kind words Dazzla! Im sure Xeon will be grateful too. :happy:

[dreamsINdigital]

Found a small bug. :)