y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 I finally finished the "enhanced" version of my 2250 VS. It would have been done earlier but I went on vacation and then had a big project due in school, so skinning got put on the backburner. Anyways, this upgrade should make everyone who had problems with the first VS happy. It also includes the "unenhanced" version of the theme, and the original is still available for dl as well. Screenshot Download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irdawood Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 hehe looks sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 Did you post thw wrong file? Mine looks like your old Business theme or whatever. The start menu and tray look very different from the screenshot. EDIT: Nevermind, didn't think there was another substyle in only 1.6 MB :) EDIT2: You gonna make an msgina.dll for this? That would be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 haha yeah the visual style is small as hell and quick as a whistler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth3l Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 sweet - I like these style themes. Where di dyou get that Outlook icon though? thanks C! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 its the icon for outlook for mac. i found it somewhere on the boards here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dfx Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 great theme, nice, excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbrown Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 i love the overall theme, my only beef is with the caption buttons, why do the min, restore/max, and close button's glyphs move when they are hovered!? that drives me crazy! :) but i can live with it. great theme, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 they're supposed to move. that's how it was in Whistler 2250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 Not sure if this is a bug, but here: When a window is maximized, the very top left and right pixels don't contain any window. So, it's like clicking the desktop, instead of the X button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbrown Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 ahh -- ok. maybe an enhanced enhanced version, 2252;) ? what about a white font in the taskbar when selected as the active window? is this easy for me to switch for myself in style builder or anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 it should just take adding a TextColor to the Taskbar button pressed section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conundrum Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshbrown Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 ok -- thanks, i just noticed it didn't seem to go with the pressed start button -- its text turns white when pressed. ---- as a sidenow, how do i edit the style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarzan007 Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 I love your theme man, it looks real awesome, congrats one minor niggle and im not sure if this is a "feature" or not on the radio buttons and check boxes, i've only noticed it on webpages with a dark background, because thats the only place i can see it, but behind those buttons, theres is a little square, this really does stand out on many webpages, such as www.nzgames.com/forums, you can see the boxes clearly here. heres a screenshot: can this be fixed? cheers, and well done on a rad theme :D tarzy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 it could be fixed i suppose, I'd have to delete the solid background from the image, and then add a drop shadow. the radio and tickboxes were basically taken from the actual business.mstheme from 2250, and resized and repositioned. I was lazy. :D hurting: again, this is how it was in 2250. there is a 1 pixel transparency in every corner on the maximized titlebar. I don't know why, there just is, and I kept it there when I ported it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJP Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 It feels like old times again. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 y_notm can u e-mail me those sweet looking icons u got? The icon's board has the posts but all the attachments are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDownfall Posted March 20, 2002 Share Posted March 20, 2002 anyone got a good winamp skin for this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bART- Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 Damn sweet dude! Someone should make some nice icons and a winamp skin for this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDownfall Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 i use smoothicons xp and they look nice but theres no good trashcan icon i can find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehanson Posted March 26, 2002 Share Posted March 26, 2002 y_notm, Great job on the port! There is one thing that I think may be a bug in this VS, and many VSs that I've come across. Please note the image below. The Connect To menu has two separator lines between the ISP connection and "Show All Connections". http://www.pobox.com/~ehanson/images/VS_2251_bug.gif I have found this bug in many other VSs also. Can this be fixed? Once again, wonderful job y_notm. -- ehanson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y_notm Posted March 26, 2002 Author Share Posted March 26, 2002 i dont think it can. it seems to be a problem with the skinning engine, perhaps caused by stylexp, i dont know. I havent had an unmodded uxtheme.dll on my system in so long i cant remember if it was even right before stylexp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osiris Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 yeah thats apretty sweet whistler theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemo Posted March 29, 2002 Share Posted March 29, 2002 to think why Microsoft got rid of a theme like that... that is absolutley beautiful :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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