WindowBlinds 4.5 introduced two new cool tricks for window frames -
IE/Explorer special shell frames, and
random frames.
The two features are mutually exclusive, meaning that if you use random frames you cannot specify the special frames for the shell windows. First of all - both features are only available in the UIS2 skins (Advanced WindowBlinds skinning format).
Today is the 60th anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz concentation camp. Probably the last round anniversary with so many witnesses still alive. Auschwitz was a German Nazzis’ camp of mass murder which took the death toll of about 1.5 million people. Most of them were Jews from Poland and surrounding countries, Poles, Gypsies and homosexuals and Soviet POWs. The leaders of 30 countries gather in Krakow, POLAND (near Oswiecim - polish name for German Auschwitz) today to honor the death of the innocent victims of the sick ideology that some humans are somehow inherently better than others.
Very important: Recoloring/converting or altering icons or skins does not change the original author’s copyright, nor does it make such skin yours! If you recolor/convert or alter a skin or icon that has not been made by yourself you may not upload or share the modified skin or icon without the original author’s permission.
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.
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:
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.
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).
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:
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:
Stardock Blog Navigator Professional offers a host of keyboard accelerators while you edit your articles. Here you have a short summary of the most important keystrokes used by the article editor.
Formatting
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
Posting and file operations
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
Movement
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
Selection
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
Editing
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
