Free Style Visual Style and Active Desktop

[0sit0]

Its ok!! ;)

[Thantos]

I'm sending a screen with the problem then you will see...

[conundrum]

theme looks great sofar

[Thantos]

better bumb this up :)

[Osiris]

Yer sorry guys ive been so busy with well rather other hehe duties, and if not that when im on here im involved in two websites, ah im hopping up early tomorrow morning so ill do some work on it tonight and tomorrow morning so when im back from lunch, I should be able to upload it. Sorry about the delays and thankyou for your patience and support on this project

[Thantos]

interesting... I wonder which relaes this will be rc1?

Tell us a few improvements...

[BuG]

rocks!

/me waits and just looks :D

[mustiy]

Bump Bump :D

[baphomet_irl Veteran]

This is the thread im visiting most atm - I cant wait for the Active desktop stuff - the theme rules as it is! :)

[Osiris]

SO some improvements, ah sorry you guys might be wondering why im on here and not working on freestyle, well I had to check some uni stuff out, so while im here thoughtd id pop into neowin.

Anyways improvements;

*Move over effect for StartButton now

*Fixed any pixel over problems, such as with the logoff buttons

*Made the startmenu arrows in the more programs white, definitely makes it look clearer.

*Fixed a couple new graphics which were still LUnarised

*Vast improvements and extensions to the shellstyle.dll, as you would have see in the last preview pic, illuistrating the new category view in the control panel for example.

*[Working on] Working Active Desktop.

And provided the Desktop is working properly the next release should be RC1.

[JoGro123]

I have started to host Osiris on ibetas.net (the site should be ready soon). It is an all around theming site with the different projects he worked on and hopefully a user submitted portion.

I wanted to know if i should open it up so that people can dump there FreeStyle extras in (logons, bootups, icons, a theme version of the style)

I'll talk to Osiris about it lata but just giving you a heads up on the future of his AWESOME theming abilities

[Thantos]

Cool :)

[Thantos]

:bump!

[Osiris]

Okay people for the last four hours ive been trying to learn and modify the Javascript to work, it was unsuccessful. Eitherway for some reason, when I use the basic thing like this

c: as the url in Flash it opens C: fine. When I did it as a Hyperlink in Frontpage it made the view of the designated folder go all funny but in flash it doesnt.

However I cannot find the desination of My Computer, and Control Panel. eg to get to the windows dir all I put in Swish is

C:Windows in frontpage file:///C:Windows

right when I click my button it goes there.

Now whatever version, what is the link I would type to get to Control Panel and My Computer?

If we find that out, it should all be sweet.

Anyone know?

Now, Im not going to sleep till ive put this theme up and out, its getting finished and distributed tonight come hell or high waters. hehe so lets help me out here so I can sleep.

I must personally thank JoGro123, hes services and the position on ibetas.net as the theme webmaster, is most welcomed and very appreciated. This project has been put in second place to getting RC1 freestyle done, but I will keep you all updated, we should see some great stuff on this site.

[P]

if you make a shortcut to my computer etc and link it to the shotcut that works ..but ! the only problem is that it opens with all the toolbars on and in tiles mode not icons mode know what i mean ?

i dont know a real lot about html and less about flash ..but trying to find out some info anyways :)

[Osiris]

Yeah what you just described pyro is what it normally does byt when I make the links in Flash I doesnt do that :) Ill go try the shortcut way and see if it does it that way. Hopefully it will work and we can release this puppy

[P]

cool ..like i said i dont know much about flash ..is flash just to animat something ?

[Jessterw]

You Go Boy! :D

No joke, this is one of the best visual styles and themes I have seen and used. I really like the fact that you seem to be more concerned with the quality and usability (and what people think about it) of it rather than just getting it out there... shown by the single beta release (which was more like a RC IMO). Keep up the good work and I for one am definately waiting to see the next release.

[P]

i used the java scripts from outrigged active desktop for mine ..then i just edited the registry to stop the active x alert from poping up

[Jessterw]

Originally posted by P?R? cool ..like i said i dont know much about flash ..is flash just to animat something ? b>

Flash is a vector "drawing" creation application and viewer (renderer). The viewer allows you to view Flash movies (a "compiled drawing" with animations) in web pages and in applications (it can be embedded in another application or can be a stand-alone application).

It's a great application for certain things, but its has polutted the we:D:D with pages that are either too flashy and deliver relatively little content or are usability nightmares. They definately go against everything the web was built for or should (can you tell I am an HTML purist). Just my opinion lo:p:p.

[Osiris]

Well im very pleased to annouce that RC1 will be ready for download umm lol looks like where gonna havethis problem again lol ah well eitherway within the next hour I hope to zip and package RC1.

It will ship with all the prementioned features howver unfortunetly the My Computer and the Settings Button [Control Panel]

will not work apart from that the My Documents, My Pictures and My Music links will all work. Hope thats alright but I nor anyone else has been able to tell me how to link the My computer or control Panel.

Now the problem with the JS was that it just didnt fit well with the flash, it and flash just didnt communicate well, thus I wasted alot of time trying to get it to work but to no avail.

Eitherway the Flash seems to like opening up folders as there meant to be with a simple link so :)

[Jessterw]

Originally posted by Osiris

It will ship with all the prementioned features howver unfortunetly the My Computer and the Settings Button [Control Panel] will not work apart from that the My Documents, My Pictures and My Music links will all work. Hope thats alright but I nor anyone else has been able to tell me how to link the My computer or control Panel.

Hmm... I'm sure this has been mentioned before and you may already know about it, but those two folders are represented by a unique ID that follows something like "{BuNChOfChaRActERs}" or whatever. I can't remember what the ID's are specifically, however I will find out as I've had to use them in some programs I've worked on (development/programming) in the past.

I've never used Flash before so I'm not sure what the scripting or programming aspects/capabilities of it are (however I have heard it has some?), but you may be able to get to them that way, if you haven't already tried... have you?

Anyways congradulations on getting as far as you have and for having some a great theme/visual style.

[Jessterw]

Took some searching but here are the shortcuts to get to My Computer and Control Panel. These are strictly the commands you would enter if you created a shortcut to these, but I assume you could use them still (not sure how you are doing this in Flash). You should be able to use the commands by themselves but if not try adding this prefix: "%windir%" or "%windir%System32".

My Computer:

Explorer ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

Network Neighborhood:

Explorer ::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}

Recycle Bin:

Explorer ::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Control Panel:

Explorer ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL

Also if you want here are the commands for log off, shutdown, and restart. Edit: These are incorrect under Windows XP (or I've messed something up :D), but I will try and get the correct ones if you want.

Log Off:

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 0

Shutdown:

rundll32.exe user.exe,ExitWindows

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 8 (Power off)

Restart/Reboot:

rundll32.exe user.exe,ExitWindowsExec

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 2

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 6 (Force Reboot)

Some of these commands have been replaced under Windows XP (although these should still all work) with some shorter commands, although I'm not sure what they are. I've also got a complete list of Control Panel applet shortcut commands too if you want them. Hope this helps.

[Thantos]

very nice team effort :) unfortunately i dont know enuff to help out so i guess i can only check for bugs.. oh well..

[sunnyy4]

Osiris: Don't forget my idea of putting up a mailing list so that people can stay updated with your kick-@$$ themes!!!