[noun] - \ko-'da-la-te\ - Code and Effect - solving problems with just enough amount of code - by Adam Najmanowicz
Originally posted on Wincustomize.com
I am aware that this article is partially redundant. I’ve written similar article in about a year ago but it was concerning icons. IconDeveloper is fairly similar in this term to SkinStudio since they share a great deal of their code base. However there I suppose there may be a significant number of people not realizing that - hence the article.
Originally posted on JoeUser.com
How exactly do you create those criters? At first it may seem a tedious job but once you have all the frames, you’re pretty much set.
First thing I did in my research was asking the experts. I’ve asked some of the skin authors and most of them uses a kind of workaround to this. The most detailed explanation I’ve received from one of the greatest WindowBlinds skinners - Mike Bryant:
Originally posted on Wincustomize.com
There was a concern by some users why SkinStudio shares a start menu with the original substyle when you create another substy;le based on it..
Basically the answer is - It’s not a bug - It’s a feature. It’s like that by design. If you select a prefix on save then you will get another start menu as well, otherwise skinstudio will use the same stuff for 2 reasons.
Originally posted on Wincustomize.com
Very important: Recoloring or skinning icons does not change the original author’s copyright, nor does it make such icons yours. If you recolor or skin an icon that has not been made by yourself you may not upload or share a recolored icon without the original author’s permission.
In the next few days Stardock is publishing the next component of it’s extremely successful ObjectDesktop. The new component is called IconDeveloper - the tool’s , I’m the developer of, main purpose is to make it easy for casual users to create icons and make it faster and more efficient for professional icon artists to do their work. Celebrating the event I decided to write a short article about going really crazy with icons and how to do it with IconDeveloper. What skinning means (but is not limited to) is changing the look of certain part of applications. The article will describe how you can change the appearance of an IconPackager theme or an Icl file (Icon library).
Originally posted on Wincustomize.com
There’s a lot of noise in the news sites (Slashdot.org, News.com and Neowin.net) about the Monday release of Konfabulator for Windows. But to be honest they just make me think that journalists today no longer care to be through and accurate and will chew in everything that a PR department will send them. I do not personally rant about those kind of things, but this one got me going. Especially one thing Mr Alro said which is cited in about all of the sources:
Originally posted on JoeUser.com
The fourth part of the article already available here…
If you have used any mail program supporting HTML there is really not all that much new I can show you here. Writing blogs with Blog Navigator is a breeze. Simply select New Blog Article from the File menu from the main menu or:
Originally posted on JoeUser.com
| Description (Command) | Key |
| Toggle bold formatting | CtrL+B |
| Toggle italic formatting | CtrL+I |
| Toggle underlining | CtrL+U |
| Increase paragraph indent | CtrL+T |
| Decrease paragraph indent | CtrL+SHIFT+T |
| Description | Key |
| Save the edited article into a locally stored file | CtrL+S |
| Post the edited article to online blog (make it visible for the user butnot to the general public) | ALT+S |
| Publish the edited article to online blog (make it visible for the general public) | CtrL+SHIFT+S |
| Upload a file/image to an associated FTP account for use in the edited article | ALT+U |
| Insert Image | CtrL+SHIFT+I |
| Insert Horizontal line at the end of the edited article | CtrL+SHIFT+H |
| Print edited article | CtrL+P |
| Description | Key |
| Move one character to the right. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element one pixel to the right. | RIGHT ARROW |
| Move one character to the left. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element one pixel to the left. | LEFT ARROW |
| Move down one line. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element down one pixel. | DOWN ARROW |
| Move up one line. If an absolutely positioned element is selected, nudge the element up one pixel. | UP ARROW |
| Move right one word | CtrL+RIGHT ARROW |
| Move left one word | CtrL+LEFT ARROW |
| Move to the end of the current line | END |
| Move to the start of the current line | HOME |
| Move down one paragraph | CtrL+DOWN ARROW |
| Move up one paragraph | CtrL+UP ARROW |
| Move down one page | PAGE DOWN |
| Move up one page | PAGE UP |
| Move to the beginning of the document | CtrL+HOME |
| Move to the end of the document | CtrL+END |
| Cycle selection through block-level elements within the control | TAB |
| Reverse-cycle selection through block-level elements within the control | SHIFT+TAB |
| Description (Command) | Key |
| Extend the selection one character to the right | SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW |
| Extend the selection one character to the left | SHIFT+LEFT ARROW |
| Extend the selection right one word | CtrL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW |
| Extend the selection left one word | CtrL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW |
| Extend the selection up one line | SHIFT+UP ARROW |
| Extend the selection down one line | SHIFT+DOWN ARROW |
| Extend the selection to the end of the current line | SHIFT+END |
| Extend the selection to the start of the current line | SHIFT+HOME |
| Extend the selection down one page | SHIFT+PAGE DOWN |
| Extend the selection up one page | SHIFT+PAGE UP |
| Extend the selection to the end of the document | CtrL+SHIFT+END |
| Extend the selection to the beginning of the document | CtrL+SHIFT+HOME |
| Select all elements in the document | CtrL+A |
| Description (Command) | Key |
| Delete the selection or, if there is no selection, the character to the left of the insertion point | BACKSPACE |
| Delete all of a word to the left of the insertion pointer, not including the space before | CtrL+BACKSPACE |
| Copy the selection to the Clipboard | CtrL+C |
| Paste the contents of the Clipboard to the current location | CtrL+V |
| Cut the selection to the Clipboard | CtrL+X |
| Delete the selection without placing it on the Clipboard | DELETE |
| Toggle between inserting and overwriting text | INSERT |
| Undo the most recent formatting commands | CtrL+Z |
| Re-do the most recently undone commands | CtrL+Y |
| Find text | CtrL+F |
| Display the Hyperlink dialog box if the insertion point is within an element | CtrL+L |
| Toggle absolute positioning for the selected element | CtrL+K |
absolute positioning
Originally posted on JoeUser.com
First of all let me express how excited I am about the release of Blog Navigator. I think we did a good job on it and I am trully amazed at our approach to its release.
Let me explain why. Mind that Stardock kept a guy :) ) on a payroll for a better part of a year to do this.
Originally posted on JoeUser.com
The third part of the article already available here…
Reading blogs is one thing, and alot of programs allows you to do that with better or worse results. What makes Blog Navigator unique is among other features (like search article monitors, baskets and search blogs) its ability to both read and write blogs.
Originally posted on JoeUser.com A few days back I found that nice Visual Style. Really easy on eyes - perfect for coding - titlebar not to high - not too many distractions. So i ran it through Skinstudio, added a few mods to make it the nice place to look and shown it to Pas (Snidely Whiplash). He’s made a couple of mods himself and I wanted to have them in my skin. But my skin was USF (yes you can apply USF skins to WindowBlinds with Skinstudio) and his was WindowBlinds. But the image format is the same, so i could just copy it and change the settings in my skin. But how would i do that without wasting an hour chasing all the attributes that needs to be changed? So i came up with 2 easy features to do that. Extract from the change log: