BB2: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
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blueswilder
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Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 232 Location: China
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
Here is some advices. And more freedom on sysbar will be good, because I only ues one workspace.
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| Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:20 am |
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tao
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Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:37 am Posts: 28
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
cthu1hu wrote: I think font shadows might be broken. "systembar.tasks.font.fx: 1" does nothing... Yeah, I know. Text effects on 32bit transparent backgrounds are not implemented yet. cthu1hu wrote: And more freedom on sysbar will be good, because I only ues one workspace You can turn off pager by setting "systembar.pagerShow: false"
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| Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:39 pm |
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pitkon
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Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:13 am Posts: 595
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
blueswilder: I like the Blackbox icon on your desktop. Where did you get it?
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| Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:42 pm |
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cthu1hu
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Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:08 pm Posts: 775 Location: LA, US
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
tao wrote: cthu1hu wrote: I think font shadows might be broken. "systembar.tasks.font.fx: 1" does nothing... Yeah, I know. Text effects on 32bit transparent backgrounds are not implemented yet. It's weird. There seems to be layer information, or perhaps transparency information in the PNG that gets read by BB2. If i flatten the layer in photoshop, I'll destroy the transparency, but font shadows will work. If I just merge the layers--keeping transparency intact--there won't be font shadows, but also, the PNGs are much brighter, as if BB2 is reading some transparency information in the PNG. It also has the effect of crashing BB2 infrequently. So I'm stuck with a skin I'm making. I can't flatten the layers and I can't merge visible/linked.
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| Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:05 pm |
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blueswilder
BBDinosaur
Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 232 Location: China
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
pitkon wrote: blueswilder: I like the Blackbox icon on your desktop. Where did you get it? see here: posting.php?mode=reply&f=27&t=3268
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| Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:32 pm |
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Leongz
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Joined: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:10 am Posts: 8
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
tao,I have a question here: Haven't this version supported tray icon clicking yet? I've tried Ctrl/Shift/Alt + R/L/M click on WLM icon but received no response, and the same problem appears on several other icons, too. Should I change my setting or just wait for the newer version?
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| Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:29 am |
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pitkon
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
Sorry, wrong link... I can't see a post meant for someone else 
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| Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:37 am |
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tresni
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Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:59 pm Posts: 1316 Location: Boise, Idaho
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
I think he meant to link to the thread 
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| Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:01 am |
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pitkon
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Joined: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:13 am Posts: 595
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
tresni wrote: I think he meant to link to the thread  Yup, I realized that... Thanx, tres'ni...
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| Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:19 am |
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tao
BBAdult
Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:37 am Posts: 28
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
pitris wrote: Wow! This is great! I've downloaded it and it works fine for me. My sister bought a laptop with windows vista and I said: "It looks quite nice, maybe even nicer than my blackbox. We should improve bb somehow." And here it is.  I have a few questions: There's a BB2Skin.dll file in blackbox root. Is it a plugin for BB? If not, maybe it would be nice to have this skinning as a plugin. (Like bbleanskin skins titlebars, your plugin would skin the whole windows). On the other hand I assume that your blackbox clone provides some api for other plugins to use the skinning on their own windows. For that intention it's better to have it built-in in bb core. (or send broams to the core to get handles of the skinning stuff?) Will it be possible to skin other windows, not only buttons and scrollbars? Like editbox, combobox etc. BB2Skin.dll is only the hook dll. Currently there is no plugin support for BB2, all features are built-in. It would be possible to skin editboxes and comboboxes. I only fear that this might become unstable. I encountered already problems with skinned buttons in one special app. blueswilder wrote: Here is some advices. Thanks. I will consider your advices in future updates. Leongz wrote: tao,I have a question here: Haven't this version supported tray icon clicking yet? I've tried Ctrl/Shift/Alt + R/L/M click on WLM icon but received no response, and the same problem appears on several other icons, too. Should I change my setting or just wait for the newer version? Yeah, this bug is known. Like you mentioned, only some app icons are working. I've taken exactly the same code Leanbar uses. I even get this problem with the original Leanbar when I compile it by myself. Same with BBIconBox. Perhaps someone could compile BB2 sources and post if tray icons are working then.
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| Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:20 pm |
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tao
BBAdult
Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:37 am Posts: 28
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
Await an update for christmas with a nice new feature 
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| Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:47 pm |
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blueswilder
BBDinosaur
Joined: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:41 pm Posts: 232 Location: China
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
Is that possbile to make the bb2's launcher isolate from sysbar? I mean plugin launcher.dll.
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| Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:08 am |
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tao
BBAdult
Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:37 am Posts: 28
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 Re: Finally: Blackbox with bitmap skinning
Merry Xmas to all of you. Well, I think this will be my last update. I decided to just improve the MMS theme further in the future. The update is mainly interesting for developers, it has a transparent windows border feature, which isn't finished though. You find the source code below. Have fun.
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| Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:18 pm |
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einstein
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Oh, baby! This will be nicechristmas! Will this work only under XP or also 2k, as i'm an 2k enthusiast *g*. Thanks for your effort anyway!
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| Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:40 am |
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Hell, ya! It also works under Win 2k! I'll have a very very goodfeelin' christmas! Also i'm a little bit sorry for the family, cause fiddlin' with this masterpiece will sure cost me some time...
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| Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:53 am |
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