Velvet Waves

[agoNITE]

ive been using your theme for about 1 week now, winamp forums ;)

[Dipso]

ive been using your theme for about 1 week now, winamp forums ;)

Ah, hehe ;) :cool:

[ThemeNorth]

@Dipso: Looking good :cool: I don't have a problem with it being distributed at all. As for the vertical taskbar I included a vertical sub-style which has more suitable taskbar buttons. I decided to leave the start button the same as the normal styles at the time. Now I look at it again I could probably improve it somewhat. When I get the chance I'll see what I can come up with...

ThemeNorth

[Dipso]

Cool :D

Actually i prefer the taskbar buttons in the normal/compact one even with the vertical taskbar, the only real gripe i have is the start button. :)

Edited January 6, 2004 by Dipso

[Guest Ryan]

:o Was this just updated? I see the first post was editted. :happy: This was a good theme. Great work. :yes:

[ThemeNorth]

:o Was this just updated? I see the first post was editted. :happy: This was a good theme. Great work. :yes:

No update to the core VS, I added links to Dipso's WiNAMP modern skin colour scheme...

[Guest Ryan]

No update to the core VS, I added links to Dipso's WiNAMP modern skin colour scheme...

Oh okay. Good enough for me. :)

[Dipso]

:o  Was this just updated? I see the first post was editted.  :happy:  This was a good theme. Great work. :yes:

Yea, he added my winamp 5 color theme to the front page :)

EDIT: OOOPS.. to late ;)

[Toff]

As for the photoshop bug, I can probably do something about that.

Hi there!

First of all. You did a great job with this theme. It's one of the few VSs which smooths my eyes :woot:

I got only one point i'd like toi ask. Have you been able to fix the bug inside Photoshop? The minimize icon looks still pretty strange.

Thanks

Toff

[ThemeNorth]

Hi there!

First of all. You did a great job with this theme. It's one of the few VSs which smooths my eyes :woot:

I got only one point i'd like toi ask. Have you been able to fix the bug inside Photoshop? The minimize icon looks still pretty strange.

Thanks

Toff

I'd forgotten about that! Like the improved vertical task bar start button (and the full set of Winamp skins for Metallic Shades) they'll come when I get the chance...

[ThemeNorth]

Minor Update

- New start buttons for the vertical sub-styles.

- Added caption buttons for use on palette windows (as seen in Adobe Photoshop 7). I can't actually test that this works since I don't have Photoshop 7 so let me know...

Please see the first post for full details and to download.

[Dipso]

The photoshop bug is fixed :)

The new startbutton is better, but i prefer the normal taskbar buttons so i'll stick with compact for now. :)

Otherwise Great update, to an incredible VS :D

Edited January 11, 2004 by Dipso

[ThemeNorth]

Good to hear :)

[Toff]

Great thanks, looks great :yes:

Hm, perhaps i've got a small request left. Is it possible to change (perhaps as another option) these select boxes, so that the edges aren't rounded off so strong? E.g. in MozillaFirebird the icons inside the Toolbar doen't look so good. Perhaps you take a look at the screenshot i made and attached. The favicon is squeezed inside the box, when the edges wheren't rounded off so strong it would look imho better.

Thanks

Toff

[zhangm Supervisor]

1px borders would look nice. They're pretty much identical to 0px borders, but they don't have any of the bugs associated with them. Resize still works on all borders of the window, no 1px short caption bar on certain dialog windows... They're used in TDK 4.0, which I'm using as just an example of how 1px borders are possible.

I tried modding this theme so that it would also have 1px borders, but I'm no expert, and it didn't come out right. If you won't add this feature, could you at least offer some suggestions as to how I could mod the theme to have them?

[ThemeNorth]

1px borders would look nice.  They're pretty much identical to 0px borders, but they don't have any of the bugs associated with them.  Resize still works on all borders of the window, no 1px short caption bar on certain dialog windows...  They're used in TDK 4.0, which I'm using as just an example of how 1px borders are possible.

I tried modding this theme so that it would also have 1px borders, but I'm no expert, and it didn't come out right.  If you won't add this feature, could you at least offer some suggestions as to how I could mod the theme to have them?

Speaking simply you'd need to make the outer edges of the following graphics transparent:

framecaption.bmp (see the note below)

smallframecaption.bmp

frameleft.bmp

frameright.bmp

framebottom.bmp

You may need to add a transparency key for some of those elements in the INI. Unfortunately due to the way in which the frame captions are drawn they cannot currently be transparent so you would have to change their behaviour to only ever use one of the 5 frame captions (framecaption4 fits most cases).

As you've already guessed I won't ever be adding this 'feature'. Mainly because I persoanlly don't like it and secondly as it prevents me from having the extra caption bar graphics to improve the appearance of narrow windows with fewer caption buttons

ThemeNorth

Edited January 12, 2004 by ThemeNorth

[BxBoy]

Matching Uptime Skin.

[ThemeNorth]

Minor Update

- Further improvements to palette titles in Adobe Photoshop 7.

Please see the first post for full details and to download (note that the version number remains unchanged).

[Raum]

*Cough Cough*

It's like this using all three versions of the VS.

Otherwise I'm a huge fan and really enjoy your work. Only thing I can see beyond this that Iwould of changed is the color items flash in the taskbar on the blue theme, but I can just do that myself. Excellent job.

[ThemeNorth]

*Cough Cough*

It's like this using all three versions of the VS.

Otherwise I'm a huge fan and really enjoy your work. Only thing I can see beyond this that Iwould of changed is the color items flash in the taskbar on the blue theme, but I can just do that myself. Excellent job.

That'll happen if you don't have the TN Blank font installed. The installer should have installed it automatically but if you didn't use the installer (or it somehow failed to properly install the font) you'll need to do it manually. Simply extract TNBlank.ttf from the executable (using any archive utitlity that can open Microsoft Cabinet archives) and copy it across to your fonts directory.

[Raum]

That'll happen if you don't have the TN Blank font installed. The installer should have installed it automatically but if you didn't use the installer (or it somehow failed to properly install the font) you'll need to do it manually. Simply extract TNBlank.ttf from the executable (using any archive utitlity that can open Microsoft Cabinet archives) and copy it across to your fonts directory.

Thank you very much for the quick reply. Enjoying the VS. :)

[ThemeNorth]

Velvet Waves WindowBlinds Version

Woodbridge has done an excellent port for WindowBlinds with:

- Custom colour support (allowing you to have the VS in any colour you desire)

- All three sub-styles (including faster UIS1 variants)

- Skinned log-off and shutdown dialogs

Check out the [VS-WB4] Velvet Waves thread for full details.

[j0lxj0lx]

Hey,

I'm using Win2K (D'oh!)

One thing I have noticed a *LOT* of skins (not just Velvet) have omitted is the 'window attention' status in the task bar; that is when a window is minimised and it wants attention (eg: MSN, Trillian, etc), the task ber entry for that window *should* flash.

I have noticed that it doesn't on the majority of skins.

Is this left out deliberately, or do most skinners just not realise it and it is an oversight?

Any chance of fixing this?

I looove the Velvet look and am really keen to keep it as my primary theme....

Regards

j0lx

[+Woodbridge Subscriber²]

j0lx, I've replied in the Windowblinds thread.

[Dipso]

There seems to be a bug with my visual style and the latest build of winamp 5 (5.02) :blush:

Here is an updated XML, with improved ease of installation. (just extract to the winamp folder and it should create the right folders)

Please give a shout if you are having problems with it.

Velvet_Waves.zip