Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Keikonium

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Originally posted by Aardvark
That's almost the same of another idea I had. I was thinking of some sort of program which would display a picture of WLM and it's separate windows, and when you hovered over something it would give you the ID, and then it would be possible to double click on that element and the folder containing the file/element, or the file/element itself would open up to allow editing.

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Exactly. Kind of like the "live preview" presented in A-Patch showing the customizations as you enable/disable the options. It would make skinning a lot faster/easier if a skin editor like this was constructed.

I don't know if anyone has ever used the program by Stardock called "Skinstudio" that is used to make windowblind skins, but I was thinking that something like that (altho a LOT simpler) would be a nice idea. You click the element in a preview picture, and then the possible modifications would pop up that you could edit. For example:

You click the dashboard background in a preview image. Options pop up to change the image itself, the dimensions, foreground, background, transparancy, etc etc. Then there is still always the way we skin now (editing the text files) for more advanced options and such.

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well then what your essentially asking for is you have a virtual display of the messenger interface you click on say the dashboard and up pops an options window in there you can tiock boxes for the buttons you want displayed on the dashboard unticking the ones you dont and then say theres a picker option for background and text for that element, etc, there would be fields there to type in the path of a customer image for the dashboard background or even for custom button images and each path field could have a browse button etc and youd basically have this same kinda options screen for every element of every window in WLM thats what it sounds like your after right?

personally i dont know how someone would go about doing a project like that but i bet its not easy and that it will be very time consuming for whoever dared take it on.