[release] Smoothstripes (black Panther)

"I have finished it, at last!!!!!"

SmoothStripes (Black Panther)

Version 1.0

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For 56k users:

+ Positives +

Three Colour schemes, 1px borders, shellstyle file provided by Labtec.

Looks good with almost anything. (Personal opinion obviously)

- Negatives -

No Black on Black fix, no Photoshop fix, no gloss versions as yet.

^ Big Ups ^

Max Rudberg for his permission to make this available to everyone.

KoL because without his base file I would have taken about 12 times longer making this.

Stefanka, without his snow theme i wouldn't have known how to do 1px borders

Stefanka again for the help with the black on black thing, shame we couldn't fix it.

Labtec for making the shellstyle (sorry, I forgot to put you in the screenshot, you're in the readme though).

Everyone who tested it, you didn't say much but sometimes that's all a skinner needs.

Also, thanks Seph for closing the "Really Bad News" thread. It was making it feel like it would never get finished.

Download at DeviantART

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#143384

so nice :cry: ....... cant wait to have it on my desktop :rock:

#143396

Originally posted by Acaeris@Apr 12 2004, 11:48 PM
Also, thanks Seph for closing the "Really Bad News" thread. It was making it feel like it would never get finished.

No problem, anytime...

Looks amazing... why dont you host it on DevArt?

#143397

good point, hadn't thought of that. brb.

#143402

If you want to offer a BitTorrent download, send it to me and I'll do the torrent it for it.

wincey11 [AT] yahoo [dot com]

#143403

Not to put you down but, the buttons are pretty big and the start buttons are hard to see, guess I'll have to wait and try it...

#143404

It's Up, sorry about that, forgot about DeviantART despite it being on my Favourites bar.

@Haxor_Fox: The Previews are from Windows own preview program, the buttons look much better than that on the actual skin, i'm not sure what you mean about the start buttons though, I can see them quite clearly. Maybe it's cause it's a bright background as opposed to the wallpaper I usually use.

#143410

:woot:

^That just about sums things up^

#143411

Um, it's not working for me. I dled and all but the vs file doesnt work...maybe...

#143413

@Haxor_Fox: A more specific description of the problem would be nice. I've had many problems with VS's after downloading them so as far as I currently know there could be any reason for that.

#143414

Hmm its giving me an error :

"The visual styles could not be loaded because the file failed to load. Unkown Property

Details:

Equals sign expected"

#143415

Yea I even tried putting it in the resources/themes/ folder and it still didnt work.

GAAAAAAAAH!

#143417

not again, hang on and i'll fix it. It's resbuilder, it seems to just add random garbage on the end of the themes.ini file.

OK, I've put the file i'm currently using into the zip file this time so I know it's working this end.

#143420

okie dokie

...

pokie.

Edit: How long's this gonna take?

Edit 2: Down there, thats what I meant.

#143421

looks really sleek but I dont know about the start button it looks kinda dark and not smooth.

#143422

Updated, hopefully it will work now.

Well, I appreciate the comments, it's kinda a matter of personal taste on this. I like it, plus it took me a week to make just one of those apple logos.

#143428

Nah dood. I tried it and the buttons are ginormous. also the start button is visible but barely, overall its awesome and a big improvement over the old but if you could fix these few things, it might persuade me to use this potentially great VS.

#143429

Ok then.

Improvements list:

----------------------

* Buttons ???

* Apple Logo (That's going to be annoying).

Which buttons are too big? The dialog ones? The min - max - close ones?

I ask because they are the same size as KoL's ones (both the caption and dialog buttons).

#143432

There are some Apple logo shapes for PS floating around, so fixing that won't be a problem methinks .

I'll go see if I can find one...

#143434

yes, those.

#143437

:cry: So beutiful Nice beutiful shiney black I love it

#143438

Thanks Keith.

@Haxor_Fox: Again, which ones, do you mean both the dialog buttons (The big one with OK on it) and the caption buttons "- + x"?

Please say you only mean one, as I said they are exactly the same size as KoL's originals.

As for the Apple Logo, will a flat white one do people?

#143441

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#143446

Is this what you want for the start button?

#143486

yea, much better. and just use (with permission) the (- + x) KoL used (my favorite aqua buttons) for his gloss version (not the ones in his regular SS which are diff.)

#143493