If you've made Dx themes whats your favorite feature

April 25, 2003 2:21 PM from

For those of you who have put together a DX theme what is /was your favorite thing to incorporate. Weather it was anamation scripting , popups, groups or Eye candy what was/is it for you and can you do it better now ?

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Reply #1 April 25, 2003 2:37 PM from

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As you can probably tell if you ever looked at my themes, I'm a bit of an "eye candy" guy. My goal, whenever I start a new theme, is to make it look as far removed from the Operating system as possible. I love animations on my desktop, they just look so cool, but they take me forever to make.(because I'm rubbish at it!)
I also think the pop-up feature is very underrated, you can do some cool things with that too.
I am currently trying to figure out how to make an animation run once when you click a button, because I have a good idea for a theme if I can make that work! If anyone knows how to do it, pleeeeeze let me know.
I must admit, I really like the fact that you can do text based objects in DX, I guess that is my favourite feature.

Reply #2 April 25, 2003 2:43 PM from

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Text Objects and Theme Resolution Independence

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Reply #3 April 25, 2003 2:48 PM from

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dxscript every time. It has so much scope. Just need to wait till it's a bit more stable.

Boxxi: How do you mean? Sending a message from one object to another to play an animation? Or am I misunderstanding?

Reply #4 April 25, 2003 2:49 PM from

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I can't get my head around resolution independance

I think the way I start my themes precludes them being res independant. I should look at starting with that goal in my head.
Yay, elvee, another vote for text objects! they are cool aren't they?

Reply #5 April 25, 2003 2:51 PM from

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Yes Phil, that's exactly what I mean!!! Hippy tried to explain it to me, but when I tried it I just ran into a brick wall. Must be doing something wrong.

Reply #6 April 25, 2003 2:59 PM from

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Yup!!

Reply #7 April 25, 2003 3:01 PM from

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Boxxi: Get yerself on IRC or MSN or something and I'll try my best to explain it. I can also do a avi for yer of how to set up one if you have an animated object and a trigger object you want to send me.

Reply #8 April 25, 2003 3:02 PM from

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I'm on msn now,turn yours on and I'll find you. you are in my contacts already.

Reply #9 April 25, 2003 6:48 PM from

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well that was interesting

Reply #10 April 25, 2003 6:59 PM from

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It certainly was!! I just got a real cool theme up and running. PJPowell is a genius!

Reply #11 April 25, 2003 7:30 PM from

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Boxxi now that you can do it sharre tell me what and how you did it when you got time Im in a rut and only doing cut and paste

Reply #12 April 26, 2003 3:38 AM from

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I like the your on the internet thingy

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and the animations.

Reply #13 April 26, 2003 4:43 AM from

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DXScript is the way forward!

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