Lookin' Good, there Grayhaze. Not sure which I want more: The skin, or the privilage of being able to call Grayhaze names without being punished.

Looking forward to calling grayhaze names....could be fun...

You can't have any new ones left to call me Paul.

I'd just like to say that whoever decided to put so much new stuff into WB4 obviously had no idea how insane it would drive me trying to keep up! I actually spent a matter of hours just trying to get the little '+' and '-' on a treeview to look pixel perfect. I shouldn't be allowed to skin...

It's looking good mr grayhaze!

Dinks has always been one of my favorite skins.  Am looking forward to your release.

Looks like I need to clear a place on my mantle for a new favorite skin.

Well things are progressing nicely. I just have a few small bugs to fix, and some general tidying up, and then hopefully I'll be releasing 'dinksDX' by Saturday night at the latest. This has all been quite a learning experience, and a major headache in some instances, as this is the first time I've done most of this stuff. A rogue spelling mistake didn't help much either.

Here's a look at the latest progress, which is intended more for getting some early pre-release feedback more than simply hyping up a new skin.

http://grayhaze.com/images/dinksDX_inprogress.jpg

Let me know what you think, and any areas you'd like to see improved. One thing I'm considering doing at the moment is lightening the white titlebar buttons a little, and possibly losing the multi-colour mouseovers on them.

The menu that you show in the screenshot appears to be slightly off-white. Maybe you could try making it whiter and see if you like it. Just MHO.

DavidMandle>> The off-white of the menu background is intentional so that there's a slight highlight along the top edge. I'm going to try lightening a few parts of the skin today, so I'll see if it makes sense to do the same to the menus. I tend to think that too much pure white in an interface can cause eye strain, and I'm really aiming for this to be a long-term useable OS skin.

Hus>> I take it you're talking about the background images in the main explorer windows which are currently enlargements of standard XP icons. While I considered creating my own images, I decided that the designers at Microsoft got things right the first time. So rather than creating images which potentially conflict with whatever icons the user has installed, I thought it made far more sense to simply recolour and resize the original images to match the skin.

Perhaps if someone at some point decided to make an icon theme to match the skin, then I could use those in place of the originals. While I'm capable of creating simple icons in small numbers, I don't think a whole theme is within my abilities or patience.

Being a lover of blue in Themes/WB/DX, I'm really anxious to download this

Looking good greyhaze can't wait to download it

Grayhaze, I'm not sure what programs you used, but if it's common items such as media player, notepad, etc., you can pull up registry info for locations rather than hard-coding the paths. If you still have to hard-code paths, you can use the %SystemRoot% command to make sure you atleast have the right drive. I'm sure you already know this though...

Is it possible to call upon scripts with those buttons Grayhaze? If so, you could write simple VBS scripts to get the registry setting and then launch application. Not sure if WB would allow such a thing though...