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The search feature is messed up... when I click the link to go to a certain post number, it just goes to the first page of the thread.

hmmm your right, sorry I dont know then :( I dont use the winamp taskbar controls.

Chris

I find it bizarre to think changing a tiny flag to a tiny apple will miraculously improve the entire feel of the OS, especially if one thinks the OS is restrictive and dull. It's just a few pixels, after all. If changing one tiny little icon to the logo of another OS can make Windows change from crappy to divine, then I think the problem is entirely in the eye of the beholder. -_-

I don't understand the fixation with adding an apple to a theme that has nothing to do with Macs in the first place! Watercolour came from the Whistler builds and it has nothing to do with Macs.

Besides, it's up to Binary whether he wants to add it or not... and it seems his opinion is pretty much against that. :yes:

well i know he'll say know ;) i agree, some peopel are just too damn lazy to open up reshacker and edit the bitmap lol just do that yall instead of getting others to do it for u ;) read the start of one of the watercolor threads where binary told u how to fix it thats how it should be instead of the creator going right and left fixing things others want :huh:

Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' etc :) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blue :( ....

Thanx m8 :) ....

Radish.

Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' et:):) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blu:(:( ....

Thanx m:):) ....

Radish.

I'll be making new shellstyles very soon. But right now I'm trying to solve the resize bug, which I must say isnt comming along very well. I just cant figure it ou:(:( It seems my style is the only one with the problem, and some others that used my theme as a base. But I have even dumped the graphics into the luna theme, applied, and it's still there!:angry:y: It's really annoying me. So either it's something with the graphics, which I cant figure out, or It's curse;);)

Anyways that my top priority, and the 24 bit depth checkbox bug.

Once those two things are solved, I believe it will be hopefully totally bug free.

Then I'll work on the shellstyle:D:D

Binary, could you make the ShellStyle.DLL white, where it says 'These Files Are Hidden' et:):) ...., cuz the backround is a blue which does not match the Watercolor blu:(:( ....

Thanx m:):) ....

Radish.

I'll be making new shellstyles very soon. But right now I'm trying to solve the resize bug, which I must say isnt comming along very well. I just cant figure it ou:(:( It seems my style is the only one with the problem, and some others that used my theme as a base. But I have even dumped the graphics into the luna theme, applied, and it's still there!:angry:y: It's really annoying me. So either it's something with the graphics, which I cant figure out, or It's curse;);)

Anyways that my top priority, and the 24 bit depth checkbox bug.

Once those two things are solved, I believe it will be hopefully totally bug free.

Then I'll work on the shellstyle:D:D

Hope you get on top of these probs m8, and make it a even better V:happy:y: ....

Radish.

Ok guys, i've compiled some links from this whole thread:

Watercolor 4.3:

http://www.alexkelm.com/~binary/Watercolor43.exe

Blue Winamp skin:

XPAmp11

Ergonomic Winamp Skin:

http://members.rogers.com/binarymix/ergo.wsz

*My* Ergonomic Trillian Skin:

http://webpages.charter.net/billo3121/temp...onomic_v1.2.zip

Ergonomic WMP Skin (does it even need it? :p):

http://members.cox.net/timan/Watercolor/Wa...r-Ergonomic.wmz

Quicknotes skin:

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...97&goto=newpost

Ok guys, i've compiled some links from this whole thread:

Watercolor 4.3:

http://www.alexkelm.com/~binary/Watercolor43.exe

Blue Winamp skin:

XPAmp11

Ergonomic Winamp Skin:

http://members.rogers.com/binarymix/ergo.wsz

*My* Ergonomic Trillian Skin:

http://webpages.charter.net/billo3121/temp...onomic_v1.2.zip

Ergonomic WMP Skin (does it even need it? :p):

http://members.cox.net/timan/Watercolor/Wa...r-Ergonomic.wmz

Quicknotes skin:

https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...97&goto=newpost

Good idea about the links m8 :), and thanx alot for the Ergonomic Winamp skin :happy: ....

Radish.

Yeah great idea :)

I really should start a watercolor portal or something now that Watercolor seems to have gained alot of popularity recently.

Maybe we can start the WWW

Wonderful Watercolor Webring ;) :p

or maybe

Wicked Watercolor Webring :woot:

ok now I'm just being dilussional :D

Updates will come hopefully within the next week, which will include, but not limited to:

- Last remaining Bug fixes

- More optimizations

I just realized the other night that watercolor is more then 1 MB less then luna, and still has four substyles compared to Luna's three. It's also quite a bit faster under a strained or slowend system ;)

Chris

Oh speaking of speed...

I downloaded the most recent build of skinbench, and tested watercolor against a few WB skins.

And although watercolor is visually faster then the skins I tried for WB (yes I know there are some faster ones but I wanted to test this out) Watercolor failed miserably. I wonder why this is.

hmmmm

Chris

Oh speaking of speed...

I downloaded the most recent build of skinbench, and tested watercolor against a few WB skins.

And although watercolor is visually faster then the skins I tried for WB (yes I know there are some faster ones but I wanted to test this out) Watercolor failed miserably. I wonder why this is.

hmmmm

Chris

:gasp:

Has anybody done any performance testing comparing the effects of stretching or tileing to see which is fastest and if using larger or smaller images gives better performance.

Generally Id suspect tileing and large images to produces the best performance, ive certainly come across many cases in the past where tileing or stretching a small image is significantly slower than performing the same on a larger image, of course it depends how microsoft implemented it all.

It might be easy to make images very small in pixel size especially with flat styled themes but is it better to keep these images a little larger?

I may look into testing this if noone has before.

Frogboy (stardock) has stated before that tiling is better then stretching in WB skins, so I assume its the same for msstyles. I am making all my window elements tiled so I can test this for myself. taskbar and menu bitmaps wont matter because they are pretty much stationary.

Chris

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