Whistler 2251 (Whistler 2250 Enhanced)

[y_notm]

I finally finished the "enhanced" version of my 2250 VS. It would have been done earlier but I went on vacation and then had a big project due in school, so skinning got put on the backburner. Anyways, this upgrade should make everyone who had problems with the first VS happy. It also includes the "unenhanced" version of the theme, and the original is still available for dl as well.

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[irdawood]

hehe

looks sweet

[hurting101]

Did you post thw wrong file? Mine looks like your old Business theme or whatever.

The start menu and tray look very different from the screenshot.

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't think there was another substyle in only 1.6 MB :)

EDIT2: You gonna make an msgina.dll for this? That would be cool.

[y_notm]

haha yeah the visual style is small as hell and quick as a whistler

[eth3l]

sweet - I like these style themes. Where di dyou get that Outlook icon though?

thanks

C!

[y_notm]

its the icon for outlook for mac. i found it somewhere on the boards here.

[3dfx]

great theme, nice, excellent!

[joshbrown]

i love the overall theme, my only beef is with the caption buttons, why do the min, restore/max, and close button's glyphs move when they are hovered!? that drives me crazy! :) but i can live with it. great theme, sir.

[y_notm]

they're supposed to move. that's how it was in Whistler 2250

[hurting101]

Not sure if this is a bug, but here:

When a window is maximized, the very top left and right pixels don't contain any window. So, it's like clicking the desktop, instead of the X button.

[joshbrown]

ahh -- ok. maybe an enhanced enhanced version, 2252;) ? what about a white font in the taskbar when selected as the active window? is this easy for me to switch for myself in style builder or anything?

[y_notm]

it should just take adding a TextColor to the Taskbar button pressed section.

[conundrum]

very nice

[joshbrown]

ok -- thanks, i just noticed it didn't seem to go with the pressed start button -- its text turns white when pressed.

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as a sidenow, how do i edit the style?

[tarzan007]

I love your theme man, it looks real awesome, congrats

one minor niggle

and im not sure if this is a "feature" or not

on the radio buttons and check boxes, i've only noticed it on webpages with a dark background, because thats the only place i can see it, but behind those buttons, theres is a little square, this really does stand out on many webpages, such as www.nzgames.com/forums, you can see the boxes clearly here.

heres a screenshot:

can this be fixed?

cheers, and well done on a rad theme :D

tarzy

[y_notm]

it could be fixed i suppose, I'd have to delete the solid background from the image, and then add a drop shadow.

the radio and tickboxes were basically taken from the actual business.mstheme from 2250, and resized and repositioned. I was lazy. :D

hurting: again, this is how it was in 2250. there is a 1 pixel transparency in every corner on the maximized titlebar. I don't know why, there just is, and I kept it there when I ported it.

[DJP]

It feels like old times again. :)

[Chris123NT]

y_notm can u e-mail me those sweet looking icons u got? The icon's board has the posts but all the attachments are gone.

[DigitalDownfall]

anyone got a good winamp skin for this yet?

[bART-]

Damn sweet dude!

Someone should make some nice icons and a winamp skin for this one!

[DigitalDownfall]

i use smoothicons xp and they look nice but theres no good trashcan icon i can find

[ehanson]

y_notm,

Great job on the port! There is one thing that I think may be a bug in this VS, and many VSs that I've come across. Please note the image below. The Connect To menu has two separator lines between the ISP connection and "Show All Connections".

http://www.pobox.com/~ehanson/images/VS_2251_bug.gif

I have found this bug in many other VSs also. Can this be fixed?

Once again, wonderful job y_notm.

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ehanson

[y_notm]

i dont think it can. it seems to be a problem with the skinning engine, perhaps caused by stylexp, i dont know. I havent had an unmodded uxtheme.dll on my system in so long i cant remember if it was even right before stylexp

[Osiris]

yeah thats apretty sweet whistler theme.

[nemo]

to think why Microsoft got rid of a theme like that... that is absolutley beautiful :)