Lord Vimal

Lord Vimal

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Reply to how is windowblinds skinning? a programmers question... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

oh... so, its also painting the text! hmm...i thought it is changing the font of the Control and applying a BACK PICTURE property or something! so, you are one of the programmers of windowblinds?? anyway. WB is painting into all the hDc right? is it using BITBLT or other API SETDIBITSTODEVICE (for example) because when i tried to paint just the startbutton, windows slows down! or is it because i am running the program without compiling it in IDE. well, i think COMPIL

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how is windowblinds skinning? a programmers question... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

how is windowblinds skinning windows. is it just taking the window handles (hwnd) and BITBLTing the bitmaps or setting the control's background. i tried to experiment with it. just tried to change the START button's picture. and it worked! i got the start button's hWnd, then i found its hDC then i BITBLTed the image onto it. for the rollover image, i set up a timer (in VB) and checked if the hWnd under the mouse's coordinates is that of the START button (by GETCURSORPOS and WINDOWFRO

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Reply to Need help with skining windows folders..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

actually .MSSTYLES is a 'KIND' of EXE file. see it for urself. open a msstyles file with a progray that reads exe's eg: resource hacker. you can see lots of folders in a treeview with a FOLDER CALLED BITMAP. just click it and voila! there r the bitmaps of the skins! for XP Visual styles, go to http://www.themexp.org <A HREF="https://www.wincustomize.com/index.a

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STARDOCK 'wish' list?? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hey... how abt a wish list in which you can send in your suggestions !?? stardock can get lots of new ideas for their software. but i think programing will be a bit difficult to satisfy the wishes... anyone 'FOR' me? PS: this is also a wish list asking stardock to open a wish list. <img src="http://images.s

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Reply to XP Shadows in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

shadows which you see on XP desktop...hmm...behind the shortcut lables right>? the shadows are created by a API which is in XP but not 98.

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Reply to Shutdown screen skin in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Which shutdown screen? the screen with the HIBERNATE, RESTART, SHUT DOWN buttons? or the Logging off... screen?? you can apply new logons to change the logon screen but you cannot change the SHUTDOWN screen (with the grayscaled desktop...) its a BITMAP in the windows system files (i think explorer or user32...dunno whihc one) you can tweak the system files but better dont do it! <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/notsure.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddl

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still not gettin a reply abt window fx! >:( in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hey i have been waitin all day but still not gettin a reply abt the question for window fx! > hey treetog or alexandrie/... how did you get the shadow for BEATNIK in your UNIVERSE-METAL skin? (for beatnik) i have window fx with shadows enabled. other windows have shadows... but beatnik doesnt have... any ideas? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/bigsmile

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Reply to What to do is the Icon Question! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

yes. u can extract all the icons from a EXE, DLL, CPL etc..etc.. you know those SPECIAL windows dlls: USER32, KERNEL32, USER, ADVAPI (advanced API) contain LOTS of windows icons! better start exploring. you might need a suitable icon viewer (iconpackager explorer--with iconpackager 2) thats good enough <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/sb.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmiddle" A

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