AquaMax, real mac look


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Hi everybody, i created a skin for XP with the mac look? What's so special about that?

In this skin we have lucida grande, the real mac font, and nice rounded scrollbars.

If have attached a screenie.

You can download the complete theme on ThemeXP

http://www.themexp.org/view_info.php?id=1749

Or http://members.home.nl/djp/download/download.htm

Greetings from DJP.

And a happy 2002.:cool:

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Heh i must say the fonts are realistic and the theme looks really nice! , but when i installed it was installing cursors and sounds!! i really wanna use em. It would be cool if you could put em together in a theme, like watercolor- where it activates the cursors and sounds for you :D

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first off... the cursors included in this theme are NOTHING like the real OSX cursors...

and i can tell that the author of this skin has no real experence with Mac OSX...

allot of resources are blatently wrong...

OSX is not all about the Gelly buttons... it's a look. and a feel that Apple has created.. and GREAT care has to be taken to duplicate both the look and feel of this theme...

i use Both Windows, and Mac OSX on a daily basis...

and i just wanted to give my input...

as for the lucida grande font...

it would be nice if you gave the author of this font credit...

it is not the REAL mac font.. otherwise. it would be copyrited to apple.

as for the claim.

"The bitmaps in this style came from a real mac."

this cannot be true... the Scroll arrows are a GREAT example of this. where is the rounded edge ? and where are the mouse overs.

also many of the resources are not original.. and come from a very old version of the AquaBlue Style.

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Ja450n, why when everyone has a go at creating something aqua like, you're straight there to knock them down. You done the same to me when I made a OS X logon, "thats nothing like it...you obviously haven't used OS X...etc". Your themes, although good, pale in comparison to Binary's upcoming Aqua theme. So maybe its about time you got knocked down...

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Inspiration is from

http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/

The bitmaps come from very different places, screenshots etc.

When i designed Aquagreen i gave you already credit for the bitmaps. This includes AquaMax. You can see it's still on my page.

It's stands under the aquagreen theme picture.

http://members.home.nl/djp/download/download.htm

And in AquaMax i used only 2 bitmaps from aquablue.

traytevronhorizontal and traytevronhorizontal open. Nothing more. That's why i didn't put your credit in the readme file but i did put it on my site!

This theme isn't based on your AquaBlue.

You can't compile Aquablue in stylebuilder so it's become useless for me to use it as a baseskin.

BTW I still give Apple the credit, they designed the aqua style.

With google i searched for the lucida grande font. Copyright is from Bigelow & Holmes.

You have to turn on cleartype to get the mac look.

This is still the first version and it will never become exactly like mac osx ofcourse. You know it isn't possible with msstyles.

And about the cursors. real mac osx cursors are black and look ugly. That's why i used the ones from XsX.

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I am now creating one without pinstrypes. I wondering if it looks good.

greetings

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And i hope we can be all friends on this board not enemies.

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The theme has already a bit without pinstrypes in it. Watch the menubar when you are using adobe photoshop or another old not vb 6 based application.

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And in AquaMax i used only 2 bitmaps from aquablue.

traytevronhorizontal and traytevronhorizontal open. Nothing more.

This theme isn't based on your AquaBlue.

You can't compile Aquablue in stylebuilder

most of the resources that are in your AquaMax theme.. that have pinstriping on them.. are exactly the same as in AquaBlue.

(Frame Caption)

the pinstriping follows a pattern of 3 3 2 3 3 3 2

that cannot be acidentily duplicated...

you can compile aquablue in stylebuilder.. actually.. i used an alpha release of Stylebuilder to make the aquablue style..

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Originally posted by Dazzla

Ja450n, why when everyone has a go at creating something aqua like, you're straight there to knock them down. You done the same to me when I made a OS X logon, "thats nothing like it...you obviously haven't used OS X...etc". Your themes, although good, pale in comparison to Binary's upcoming Aqua theme. So maybe its about time you got knocked down...

i do this not to be mean...

i do this because i do not like when people decive people... or when people do not get credit.. or they are falsely credited

"The bitmaps in this style came from a real mac."

exactly from the readme file.. yet in response to my post.. DJP says that the bitmaps are from screenshots... which are most likely JPG's and therefore.. are degraded in quailty... if all the images came from a real mac.. they would be in TIFF format... (that is the native format for OSX) and they would not be as blurry as they are in most Aqua Styles...

Apple does not post everything on their web-page.. for a reason.. they do not like people using their work...

and most often when they post images on their web-page.. they use re-sized.. cropped.. re-coloured.. or OLD / Beta screenshots..

i just like to see people get what they think they are getting...

a REAL OSX theme for XP.. has to be made using the REAL OSX as a reference...

it would be like trying to make cheese out of half and half.

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You have a mac with osx. Why don't you make one then which is exactly like mac osx?

Aquapack doesn't look like it.

At the moment there wasn't a mac theme which could satisfy my needs. That's why i created one.

All the mac's themes had ugly scrollbars. This one has scrollbars just like the real mac.

Just use it or leave it.

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Originally posted by DJP

And the screenshots are ofcourse not only from apple's site.

Just search with google on

screenshots osx

There are pictures enough with clear details.

Totally agree

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I agree with DJP and Dazzla,

If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials.

You and your credits, there is atleast a dozen or so people that you didn't credit, just because you just happen to change their work a little bit and claimed it to be your original idea. Bleah! I don't like people like you.

I have created many originals and other people have taken it and changed it to their liking and claimed it is theirs, so what, it is a compliment to know that so many other people like what you made and use it.

Go stuff yourself somewhere and leave everybody else alone.

As for DJP: Blijf volhouden en niet opgeven, je style ziet er goed uit.

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If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials.

:D :D :D :D :D

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You and your credits, there is atleast a dozen or so people that you didn't credit, just because you just happen to change their work a little bit and claimed it to be your original idea. Bleah! I don't like people like you.
people i havent credited ??

LIKE WHO ??

everything in my style is original. i've only used OSX..

If you are that hip on having EXACT datails and images in TIFF format and the arrow on the scroll bars needing to be exact, then why don't YOU make a XP theme for yourself and keep it to yourself Ja450n, instead of bothering other people who are trying to make skins for others to enjoy, because people like you make it imposible to get something like a skin or a theme without having to pay out the wazo for it because of socalled copyrighted materials.

if people don't want an exact OSX theme.. then stop using the name OSX or Aqua...

an theme called OSX or Aqua should be just that...

if you call a theme CheddarXP what do you expect ?... one that looks like Swiss ???

and if you aren't keen on having it exact.. then maybe the authors of modified "aqua" themes could stop claiming that they are just like OSX. or taken "from a real mac".

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Originally posted by Ja450n

if people don't want an exact OSX theme.. then stop using the name OSX or Aqua...

an theme called OSX or Aqua should be just that...

if you call a theme CheddarXP what do you expect ?... one that looks like Swiss ???

and if you aren't keen on having it exact.. then maybe the authors of modified "aqua" themes could stop claiming that they are just like OSX. or taken "from a real mac".

geez....you are being freaking rediculous. calm the f*** down.

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Should i call Apple?

You ripped their aquastyle. Steve Jobbs is gonna be mad at you.

Period.

And you know Apple really hates people who are stealing. Remember the banned themes on wincustomize. One phonecall to Apple and they are banned again.

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this topic was only about a skin nothing more.

BTW Taken from a mac is true. Where do you think the pictures come from? A win 3.1 machine?

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