Olog-hai Posted December 4, 2001 Share Posted December 4, 2001 Hey all, Found this excellent style over at GetSkinned. According to the authour it is still at beta one stage but looks damn hot - the first style I found to bump prophecy off my computer ;) . Give him the any feed back ChaNinja ( chaninja@yahoo.co.uk), so we can all look forward to beta 2 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted December 4, 2001 Share Posted December 4, 2001 wow this theme is hella nice, can you please e-mail to me [click sig] thanks alot dude, really looking foward to that e-mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 faction you can download it http://www.themexp.org/view_style.php?id=635 it's a nice style except he still hasn't put a theme file with it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgwanaRob Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 Originally posted by Olog-hai Hey all, Found this excellent style over at GetSkinned. According to the authour it is still at beta one stage but looks damn hot - the first style I found to bump prophecy off my computer ;) . Wow! I hope it gets worked on - a lot of visual bugs, but for the most part it's sweet looking!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterific Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 I found it last night too. It also bumped Prophecy off of mine. I think it'll be awesome when it gets completely finished. But for now I've been running it and haven't run into any bugs [that I've noticed at least], and damn, it looks good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 /me downloads.. im sad to hear it has so many bugs : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MytMowse Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 thats a sweet theme :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechSys Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 I also downloaded it, haven't ran into any bugs yet. Theme is great even if it is a beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted December 5, 2001 Author Share Posted December 5, 2001 What bugs are people finding? Ive been running it now for almost two days and havent come across any - except for the systray expander arrow (or whatever it is called) dissappearing at times. What things would people loke to see in this (besides a complete .theme file) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaNinja Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 First I'd like to thank all of you for trying it out and for your encouraging comments. There ARE quite a few bugs...you'll see what I mean when you try the next release (soon). I was really surprised that some of you preferred it over the Prophecy theme which I think is brilliant. Some serious talent there! Good thing I didn't see it until recently or I would probably have never attempted a theme of my own. Just wondering whether any of you could maybe help speed things up a bit and tell me how to make a .theme file and edit / save the shellstyle.dll file. I more thing, I think at some point I'll change the window backgrounds, so if you can help with any of the above, I'll be in your debt! Later, ChaNinja btw Watch this space for new release notifications! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterific Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 When do you expect to have the next version out? I can't wait. I love this theme. And I still haven't run into any bugs. Though maybe I'm not really looking to hard. This one is definitely a keeper. That's for damn sure. I love it's look, and it's colours. Hats off to ya man. Oh ya, and the wallpapers that you included in the package are great. I'm using the second one on my system as we speak. It looks niiiiiice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faction Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 Very nice theme.. but kinda buggy, and not as smooth as i had hoped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mDagar Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 Damn ... my style bumped TWICE (probably more) off peoples computer in one thread :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironman273 Posted December 5, 2001 Share Posted December 5, 2001 I'm no expert, so I might be wrong. I think all you have to do to create a theme file is activwate the style, select what wallpaper, icons, sounds and cursors you want (preferably in the same subdirectory) and then choose "Save Theme" from the display properties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leveck Posted December 6, 2001 Share Posted December 6, 2001 You show a lot of originality in your work. I will be waiting for the update, if there is one.:) :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 7, 2001 Share Posted December 7, 2001 .themes are easy you can either copy another theme file and edit the assorted bit's to match yours with a text editor (it's really obvious what most of it is) or you can just set everything up the way you like it and do a save as from the themes tab. If you go with the second you'll have to remove the cursor data and such or at leastif you wan't to do it cleanly. Once again thats not hard also just as a tip if you wan't to include the backgrounds and such in the theme move them into the folder with your msstyle file and make sure all your links point to the right loacation from inside the theme file. It's easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 7, 2001 Share Posted December 7, 2001 the shellstyle.dll is a bit trickyier for several reasons reason #1 is that the main util used for editing it which is reshack can be a little buggy and will ocasionally corupt and although it saves a backup if you just did a bunch of work it's lost and sometimes you think you did something wrong and you didn't but any way to start on the shell style get reshack and open the shell style from one of the luna color themes and try replacing some of the images the bars on the top of the windows in the taskpane are a good one to try first 256color with standard 255 0 255 transparency color then you need to make the buttons in 32bit bmp format ahh this post is way to long if you want to know more write me an e-mail I'm statring to write a txt file on how to modify the shell style so just let me know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 7, 2001 Share Posted December 7, 2001 Hey Cha I started a shellstyle for your style cause I thought it would look good if you want it I'll send it to you and if others want it I'll post it with your permission if you use it on a release though please just give me credit. BTW I'm not quite done sorta just threw it together well heres a shot for all to see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xenix Posted December 7, 2001 Share Posted December 7, 2001 I hope the style with the hacked shell.dll will soon be released. And give a link to download it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 7, 2001 Share Posted December 7, 2001 It's now done if youre interested I also made a theme file for it as well heres a shot of the new one notice the boxes in the side taskpane now compleatly match the style and the tip of the pencil is now dark greay as opposed to light grey (wierd trasparency issue) this also has the user accounts window and colored midsize special folder images to match the style that should be everything. Let me know if you want it ChaNinja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olog-hai Posted December 8, 2001 Author Share Posted December 8, 2001 Hey whack, where did you get that cool cursor??? Any chance of pointing us in the direction of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted December 8, 2001 Share Posted December 8, 2001 You know it's kind of funny that every time I take a shot of my screen with one of my cursors in it no replies to the work I show only on the cursor. Well it's for a little progy called cursorEX which allows you to have fully animated and alpha blended (MS gives you one or the other) cursors and lets you scale them and change the hues and add an additional level of transparency so you can set your cursor to 50% transparency and still keep all the alpablended transparency intack. And also let's you change the hue and does some nifty efects on right click and double click and such and also does some cool trail effects like putting a chian of balls hanging a buncing from your cursor or leaving trails of fluttering stars all in all it just kicks ass. There is a free version available which really only lets you use there cursors and then for only $10 you can get the full version. BTW bofore anyone asks know I will not send you the full version or the serial. It needs a serial and a dll they send you when you register so the serial won't do it. And it's worth the money on $10 it's not like having to have a good paying job to afford to keep up with all of MS os releases it's just $10 pay it or don't but don't ask me these guys deserve the money. (Sorry for the last bit but I usually get inundated with requests for the serial number after someone notices it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Frank] Posted December 8, 2001 Share Posted December 8, 2001 CursorEx --->>> http://www.ricciosoft.com/cursorex/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmy Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 Yo ChaNinja... this theme is lush... I saw it and thought "I must have that." :o Keep up the good work, if all your ideas become as original and outragous as this I will surely be looking out for more from you. And Whack... could you send me your shellstyle... I love it too. It would make my comp truly complete. Keep up the good work all-a-ya :D Oh and how do u guys take photos of your desktops... its probably soooo simple but I havent quite got it yet.:paranoid: tnx all- From the JMY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whack Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 if you download beta2 it;s got my shellstyle I've only done a little more with it and if you want to take a screenshot just hit printscreen and open a paint program and paste it it's that simple and also if you hit alt+prtscn then it only takes a picture of the current window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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