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Island Dog
ZubaZ
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Reply #51 December 9, 2008 9:11:29 AM
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Just interesting what you will say when I'll finish my work on a full integration DX widgets/gadgets/themes with Window Blinds and Icon Packager? You install new WB skin and (or) new Icon Package and your DX theme automatically changes its style in a second like a Chameleon! Can you Imagine this?

That would be very cool!

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Reply #52 December 9, 2008 2:38:31 PM
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Congrats, Vad!! Hope to see many more excellent works from you

You're definitely one of the best!


Mike

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Reply #53 December 9, 2008 3:24:48 PM
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Quoting Vad_M,
reply 23
The TRUE DX God!
I'm much embarrassed...


Just interesting what you will say when I'll finish my work on a full integration DX widgets/gadgets/themes with Window Blinds and Icon Packager? You install new WB skin and (or) new Icon Package and your DX theme automatically changes its style in a second like a Chameleon! Can you Imagine this?


Give me a few weeks and WC Community may be very surprised!


And THAT's why you're the master!  You totally earned that title, Vlad!  

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Reply #54 December 9, 2008 5:55:18 PM
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Quoting Vad_M,
reply 23

Just interesting what you will say when I'll finish my work on a full integration DX widgets/gadgets/themes with Window Blinds and Icon Packager? You install new WB skin and (or) new Icon Package and your DX theme automatically changes its style in a second like a Chameleon! Can you Imagine this?

Give me a few weeks and WC Community may be very surprised!

 

If this doesnt PROVE you are the DX GOD I dont know what does!

Awesome, this is something I have been pushing for for a LONG time, cant wait.

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Reply #55 December 9, 2008 6:25:53 PM
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 Congrats Vad, verry well deserved

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Reply #56 December 9, 2008 6:56:09 PM
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Nice man! Nice! Congrats man!!!!!

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Reply #57 December 10, 2008 9:38:36 AM
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If this doesnt PROVE
I can't understand what is this word means.  ( 

However may way is very easy and transparent! Each of WB skins has its own *.UIS file where contains information about skin parts. You only need to write a simple function that will read this data (through FSO). Then just apply the necessary images by object.picture and object.setmargins to the parts of your DX theme or widget/gadget. As well as a fonts by object.setfont. That's all!

Voila! After this any of your DX creations will looks in a style of your current installed WB Skin!

As you see DesktopX gives us unlimited opportunities to realise any of our desires. The only two things that we need - spend more time for its studing and a bit fantasy!   
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Reply #58 December 10, 2008 1:02:42 PM
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Prove:  to test the truth, validity, or genuineness of

It Shows the truth that you ARE the genuine God of DX!

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Reply #59 December 10, 2008 2:51:46 PM
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Yes. I understood... I don't want to be a "God" - this is too much for me!

However the test version already works with any skins except InnovaVista (at least I found only this one).

And now I must find answer for one little question. I must force myself to make free very complicated code on which I worked more 1 month?    Or I may upload a demo project as a standalone gadget.   

 Looks like "To be or not to be..." Really hard decision for me...    

 

 

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Reply #60 December 10, 2008 3:02:06 PM
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Or I may upload a demo project as a standalone gadget.
If you can upload a demo and then sell teh full gadget, I would.  Hard work should have a reward.

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Reply #61 December 10, 2008 3:03:27 PM
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(please send me the full version so I can "test" it) 

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Reply #62 December 10, 2008 9:16:09 PM
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I agree with Zu, upload a free "demo" that is maybe a clock or something, but then SELL the whole "set" as a MASTER GADGET!

DX Work is so underrated as to how long it takes to do all the things that no one even sees.

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Reply #63 December 10, 2008 9:19:34 PM
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DX Work is so underrated as to how long it takes to do all the things that no one even sees.
ZubaZ sings teh praises of teh DX coders . . . sings out with JOY!!! 

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Reply #64 December 11, 2008 12:06:45 PM
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SELL the whole "set" as a MASTER GADGET

Seems this is impossible because DX License forbids us to export DX Themes as a standalone Gadgets. Or may be this concerned only Full Desktops? It would be great!

please send me the full version so I can "test" it

I don't work on a "full" version yet. Now I only want understand how extract WB's images and apply them for some objects created with DX. And I try to make this only with VBScript and DXScript. Why? Because VBScript and DXScript are "User Friendly" and easy to study. As well the most of DX Users/Artists have at least the elementary knowledge about them.

So my goal is - make simple VBS plug-in which will integrate DX Theme with current WB Skin. Imagine that you made only the base scripts for your Widgets and DX Theme. Then you run plug-in and all of your objects become full integrated with your WB Skin with the same colors/fonts/styles etc...

But I found a few problems.    For example DX doesn't work with animated image if its frames were drawn vertically. As well as we can't change the count of images and time delay for current animation through script. We can solve this by using masks and object.move method. However this is not good...

QQ: Why Stardock finished work on DX development? I'm really afraid that DX may repeat the unfortunate way of ObjectBar...

P.S. The demo Widget (or may be Gadget   ?????) to display System Info will coming soon.

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Reply #65 December 11, 2008 6:24:22 PM
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QQ: Why Stardock finished work on DX development? I'm really afraid that DX may repeat the unfortunate way of ObjectBar...

I hope this does NOT happen, anyone from SD want to chime in on future developements on DX?

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Reply #66 December 11, 2008 7:33:46 PM
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In the Object Desktop 2009 Preview, Brad wrote that there was an update planned for DX in 2009 and then DesktopX 4 around or after the Windows7 release.

I've reported some crashes and problems to be looked at for the update. Don't know if they will make the cut, but hopefully the big crash bugs are going to be fixed. Unless it's causing a crash, any new bug report or feature request is probably not going to be considered for the 3.x update.

If you haven't done so already, send a report with repro steps (and a test object if possible) to support so they can add those to the bugtracker. Oh and I've heard that come January Zubaz is going to love being bothered with all sort of complaints about the lack of updates and lazy engineering (just don't tell him I sent you...) 

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Reply #67 December 11, 2008 9:50:16 PM
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I have already started on Zu.. LOL..

 

Would love to see what they are planning, I love DX and would love to see some major updates to it.

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Reply #68 December 11, 2008 9:59:49 PM
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I hate you all 

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Reply #69 December 12, 2008 10:22:14 AM
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   That is so wonderful that you have made Master!!!   
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Reply #70 December 12, 2008 11:04:49 AM
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I love DX

THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I WORK ONLY AROUND DESKTOPX TOO!

I found and studied a lot of alternate ways to make standalone desktop applications and sidebar gadgets with HTA, HTML, VB, etc.., etc... But I'll be never use this knowledges until DX is still alive...

However all latest updates for DesktopX from version 3.0 are just "cosmetic". No any fundamental, progressive additions which really expands the limits of it usage. And we can see this during a few years...

Where is Stardock DX Developer Team? Who thinks and works on how to make DX more Better, Powerful and Modern? If this Team is really exists where are the results?

For example DX email notification plugin is one of the best and very useful. However it work only with POP3 servers. At the same time millions of people uses GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc.. and they will be very happy if this plugin will allow them to check incoming mails for these accounts. More than! The Email Checker in WinCustomize Toolbar already do this! Why Stardock's people don't want to implement this option into DX? Seems this is not a hard work for professionals...

I can show a lot of similar examples... But I'm sure that these questions are not for Stardock Support. These questions must be asked for Stardock Leaders who really determines the Software Development Strategy and can to change this strange situation not in a Future but in the Present!

I hate you all

Zu! You are the Best and we love you too!

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Reply #71 December 12, 2008 3:14:12 PM
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