monsieuroctagon Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 This is my first Windowblinds skin, I've had it in mind for a while now... I'm still working out the kinks and only about 30% done with the graphics. I am not going to bother with any of the obscure styles like the super huge versions of everything, this is it. When I'm bored enough I put together icons for it. I never considered how much work it is to make one of these. This skin is not going to be compatible with Vista, sorry. I don't have Vista, so maybe someone who wants it enough can go to the trouble of porting it. I'd send you the graphics. See that dot in the middle of the progressbar in Foobar? Not supposed to be there. Any idea how to fix it? I don't believe it's a glyph... Another problem - the separator glyph for toolbars won't change. See the second image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelly831 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 That's looking good, I like the caption bar design, those tab-style buttons are very nice. Keep it up! I hope someone ports it to msstyles at some point, it could also look very well without the subtle transparency effects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 What a horrible attempt at humour with that name :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGM Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 looks good, i especially like the small fonts :) What a horrible attempt at humour with that name :/ i think it is meant to be satirical, similar to Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net from the simpsons it works, made me 'heh' :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keito Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 I vote one of the best 10 WB skins ever on this one already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 26, 2008 Author Share Posted July 26, 2008 What a horrible attempt at humour with that name :/ I disagree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 26, 2008 Author Share Posted July 26, 2008 looks good, i especially like the small fonts :)i think it is meant to be satirical, similar to Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net from the simpsons it works, made me 'heh' :D Mostly just making fun of the fact that everything I've seen for windowblinds either involves cars, gel buttons, glass, or hilariously gaudy attempts at appearing futuristic. No offense to the people making those skins, though, they're just not my thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelly831 Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 What version of foobar2000 are you using? and are you sure there aren't any empty panels (track info, lyrics, etc) in the toolbar that contains the progress bar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 .9.5.1, and I don't have any other panels installed other than those two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelly831 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 that's weird, does the dot remain if you resize the progress bar or if you lock/unlock the toolbar? I've never seen that happen before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 that's weird, does the dot remain if you resize the progress bar or if you lock/unlock the toolbar? I've never seen that happen before. Yep, appears to be centered. I'll check the margins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 How's the titlebar on this one? I feel like the titlebar is more generic this way, but I always sort of hated the border anyway because I thought it was so unnecessary. Fixed the problem with those two pixels, it was just a glyph. Scrollbars and tree view stuff is done, not much else... I kind of don't want to have to make the tabs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelly831 Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 I like the first version of the captionbar better, the frame with the rounded corners looks very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 I'd include both, I think I like this one more but I like to have options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 What a horrible attempt at humour with that name :/ agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 Anybody have any idea how to fix that problem with the splitter? The only place I see it is in "Toolbar Controls," which shows that same graphic. I hate it and want it to go away. Is it even a graphic, or is it just an element that is drawn using defined colors? In that case, which colors do I need to change to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamushroom Veteran Posted July 30, 2008 Veteran Share Posted July 30, 2008 Can't you select the splitter in SkinStudio? The image is called "Seperater.bmp" in StyleBuilder. Try searching for a similar image in your skin folder. If that doesn't work you'll have to edit the classic colors scheme for your WB skin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 Couldn't find it, I give up on that particular part. It only looks all that bad in my setup, which is everything on one bar with no buttons, which I don't consider a usual setup for the toolbars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted August 2, 2008 Author Share Posted August 2, 2008 I've been having trouble giving fonts a shadow that has an xy coordinate of 0,1 or 1,1. is this a bug in windowblinds or am i not getting something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmzaa Posted September 1, 2008 Share Posted September 1, 2008 i could port this to msstyle if youre interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 my computer died, this skin won't ever be released sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelly831 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant A. Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Is there absolutely nothing left of the source files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Minimalist (Good), but TOO Minimalist (Kind of Bad) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsieuroctagon Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 Minimalist (Good), but TOO Minimalist (Kind of Bad) far be it from me to make any claims about the minimalism of this thing, but this is probably one of the most conservative (not minimalist) skins on this site. all the minimal skins out there suck. most of them have 2 colors max and are completely unusable. I wanted to make something that was up there with the things stefanka or bose made (though I think bose was too crazy about gradients) that was clean, simple, easy to use, and not a color explosion. i'm currently trying to rework this from scratch. i don't really plan on using any of the original imagery or anything, though. i'm going with the original theme of windows classic reworked with more up-to-date graphical features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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