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[Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-01-2008 at 02:26 AM
Started a vista skin when we first got our hands on the skinning engine in beta testing, although encountered problems so stopped and made beaver and steve shaped skin instead (I still need to finish it 
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Anyway Vistafy if ever completed aims to fit in naturally within a Windows Vista (official or themed{VTP}) environment
It'll come in 2 or 3 flavours (hopefully)
Vistafy Basic & Vistafy Aero ( Remembering that Glass Transparency is not available at the moment for WLM)
It well replace or force everything that is a vista only resource to be the default (so it'll look great on a VTP'd Windows XP) and is fully colourizeable as is the original WLM.
Anyway, Here's a (slightly older build) screenshot of Vistafy Basic, designed to fit in with a Vista Basic themed computer (non aero or glass)
Basic is basically (lol!) complete, just willz is currently in possession of it attempting to fix a graphical error, so it should be out soon
Oh if I can be arsed I'll make it 9.0 support too, but I've not used 9.0 in a while it's not worth it at the moment, especially with skinning
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by John Anderton on 03-01-2008 at 08:09 AM
Looks good. I guess you can't skin WLM the options windows, right? 
That seems to me like a default windows form
Any who.. can't wait to give this baby a test run 
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-01-2008 at 09:43 AM
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Originally posted by John Anderton
Looks good. I guess you can't skin WLM the options windows, right?
Any who.. can't wait to give this baby a test run
we can (at least I think we can with a dll or something) but i'm not a program coder and can't be making a dll just to customize the layout of the options panel I have however replaced the images it uses (we can do that
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RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by Basilis on 03-01-2008 at 11:39 AM
Presonally, I think the sign in window seems to have a bad design. But the chat window is great.
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-01-2008 at 01:53 PM
it looks pretty good in full it has the vista swirly circle thing as the log in animation and as you can see the vista swifty thing present in the bottom right same with toasts and the contact list (if ads are shown)
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by zogo on 03-01-2008 at 02:09 PM
i've been working on a similar skin for a while but it keeps messin....
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by Nathan on 03-01-2008 at 03:28 PM
I'm sorry, but I don't like it
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by Eddie on 03-01-2008 at 03:43 PM
quote:I second that, for some reason it just doesnt catch my eye like others i have seen
Originally posted by Napbree
I'm sorry, but I don't like it
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by blessedguy on 03-01-2008 at 03:44 PM
loved it!!
(still need some work though)
quote:
Originally posted by aNILEator
it looks pretty good in full it has the vista swirly circle thing as the log in animation and as you can see the vista swifty thing present in the bottom right same with toasts and the contact list (if ads are shown)
Did you do the animation?? [I did that, but it has a black shadow...and also...it skips two frames (cuz Busy Cursor is 18Frames, and that pic is 32 Frames)] Is it nice?!?! PLase..show us!
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-01-2008 at 03:48 PM
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Originally posted by Eddie
quote:I second that, for some reason it just doesnt catch my eye like others i have seen
Originally posted by Napbree
I'm sorry, but I don't like it
Maybe because this is the basic theme and it's not really supposed to be eye-catching, it's supposed to blend into it's environment.
Whereas the others are Black and green (ugly) and or pretty colourful and patterned like WAM
I have willz mods back and it's not at all what I wanted in the chat window so gotta re-do that now
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by tony on 03-01-2008 at 04:04 PM
Ok, i want this skin now, PM me with the skin please
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by vaccination on 03-01-2008 at 04:41 PM
I think you're all forgetting that those images are of Vista Basic theme, it's not supposed to be glossy and eye catching, it would fit in perfectly with Vista Basic. Good job nile, looking forward to seeing the 'Aero' side of it.
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by Matt-in on 03-01-2008 at 05:36 PM
Fantastic SKin Perfect. Waiting for it Though The aero should also be added as an option for it or just do it as a seperate skin.
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by freddy12 on 03-12-2008 at 06:49 AM
When is this skin going to be released i want it
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by Jimbo on 03-12-2008 at 09:02 AM
this looks nice Nile, Cant wait for a release
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-12-2008 at 10:27 AM
quote:
Originally posted by freddy12
When is this skin going to be released i want it
quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo
this looks nice Nile, Cant wait for a release
I'll try to do what I wanted to do to it over easter, the adjustment Willz made, made the chat box gradient shrink and stretch way more than mine did (although his actually shrank it to keep the gradient) I only wanted it to keep the size/position when disabling the toolbar also it wasn't in line with where explorer places it.
I'll try to get this out soon
RE: [Soon/Preview] Vistafy Basic by aNILEator on 03-13-2008 at 03:56 AM
Quick double post update (meh rules)
Chat Gradient Fixed
Padded Contact List correctly
Lost a few previous adjustments
Adding 9.0Beta Support
- Currently Partially Skinned, default bg, log on, chat and contact list
- Need to remake every min,max,close button for 9.0 due to new RLE system