[WIP]: Happy Birthday Suit(e)

Anyone want to take a shot at building it?

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I was sayign to myself . .wouldn't it be fun to have a Birthday countdown widget that on your birthday downloaded a WB skin with animated candles on the start panel and icing along the top of window frames with cake on the sides. :SURPRISED:

And maybe weather, clock, and calendar widgets.
And then . . while we're there a few docks along the same theme.
It'd be fun to have a game where you had to blow out candles too.
The sutie would look incomplete without a Sidebar of course so maybe we need those too.
Would cursors shaped like a cake server be out of place?
And balloons . . and clowns . . . and . . and . . and . . .
Wallpaper, bootscreen, logon, rightclick, rainlender . . .

But for now . . I think we just need a countdown? :D

Anyone interested? :CONGRAT:
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I stink at design but will offer any assistance I can.


An Idea.. what about s Cursor made from a balloon character? Like the twisty dog ones a clown does? it could change shape when animating ?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what about s Cursor made from a balloon character? Like the twisty dog ones a clown does? it could change shape when animating ?
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That would be so very cool!

Hmm . . wherever two or more are gathered to accomplish a skinning goal . . .  sounds like a community project. 


Bwaaahahaha!!
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think we just need a countdown?
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I could do the countdown...but I would be stuck at how to make it load a windowblind skin.

*waitaminnute...didn't you say somewhere that YOUR birthday was coming up? Is this just a cheap stunt to get us to make you a birthday suite?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I could do the countdown...but I would be stuck at how to make it load a windowblind skin.
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Downloading a link is actually in teh DX docs.  We jsut need to give it a target to download from.  :)
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also . . my b-day is in august . . too far away to be that greedy.  :)
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Downloading a link is actually in teh DX docs. We jsut need to give it a target to download from.
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Would the target be the website/download for the blind? Or the actual file on your drive, which I assume would download with the widget?

I get the downloading...but how do make it install? Or will it just have the regular pop-up window asking if you want to save or open with windowblinds?
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd have the widget download from the web.  That way you always get the current version.  And yes, it'd pop the usual dialog to open or save.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
um, doesn't RomanDA have a gadget that does that?

Oh! But *I* have a birthday coming up soon....

/me bats her eyelashes
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
He has a customizable gadget . . but I want one that will download a suite of skins (yet to be created) on your birthday.  :)
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The suite would look incomplete without a Sidebar of course so maybe we need those too.
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I agree ... methinks I will add this page to my "favorites center"

Could be a fun project ... woopeeeeeeee !!! :LOL: 
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
. but I want one that will download a suite of skins (yet to be created) on your birthday.
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And it has to be a Birthday Themed Suite?

I'm in. I've already got half of it in my head.

Wait. Are you gonna be the same ruthless, heartless, bastard of a project manager you were on the last one?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There's three players!  Thanks Po, Mike and HGE!!!

And in regards to being a taskmaster . . I can only turn it up from here.  :)

Anyone who wants to start posting sketches or what have you are more than welcom . . then we can start beating them down to get teh reference images for everyoen to work off of.

I wonder if we can get one of those dream guys to get involved.  :)
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can do Logon and Bootskin ......... Love to work for a suite ......
Inform me if there is a seat for me ... ( i mean place for me )
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks sARRGe.

Post any ideas you have   . . otherwise I will . . and if you've seen my gallery . . you don't want that.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Havn't got any idea yet ..............
Have u any ?????
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I could try another Dream :)

Dream guys? Never heard that term before...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Havn't got any idea yet ..............
Have u any ?????
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Well . . let's see . .  .if we go with the ballon animal cursor (which I like) we are steppin into a cartoon-y zone.  I dig that.

Do we want the whole thing to be balloon-y?  Could be fun but also hard to get teh lighting right.
Or do we go with my initial idea of a WB cake a la':



I'm open to anything.  (Ask my wife)   :SURPRISED: 
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks for joining up Pugboy!
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No prob. I need something to do. I play Battlefield 2 too much.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I play Battlefield 2 too much.
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Time to switch to Sins of a Solar Empire?   ;) 
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've an idea ..... take a look here WWW Link
a stage like that (no similer), adding ome balooons and candles and some disco lights  :D 

making it out ... i mean in the field.....
it will be a good place for birthday party ....

What do you think ??
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
What do you think ??
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GA-ZEEEEE-Bo!
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I like it . . but it seems too serious to me.

I was headed to teh drugstore for tylonal (because one of my daughters broke her nose on the playground today) that the tranlucency of balloons would make an interesting skin.  And then I was thinking about who makes balloon animals . . . CLOWNS!!!

A whole new realm of gadgets!

 :LOL:

http://images.google.com/images?q=balloon+animals
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Not bad... My dad doesn't want me to play it so much, so I wonder how he would feel when he sees the sidebar :LOL:

I would pay Sins of a Solar Empire, but BF2 was $10, and that is $40. I don't have that kind of money to spend on games. Mainly, it goes toward school :(