KatSkinz

[Kathy]

Here's the first experiment.

I've sent a file to aurick (that's a warning for you aurick)

Please let me know what you think.

(It's Zwork using alphas..)

[Stonecutter]

Whoa Toots!
If this is the direction you guys are going in, you're creating another problem for us...
'Now, let's see...What do I want Z to look like today?'
Nice work Kat!!
(I'll take the Galactic Skin please, with a side of Escher!)

[DeeVee]

Nice work kat. I missed my mail!

[Stargo]

Wow, looks very nice

stargo

[drjjwow]

wow kat it looks awesome... however did you get the size to enlarge... because as far as i know you can only get a size of 512x122..can you maybe show me what you did to extend your interface... thanks

[Kathy]

Excellent question doc.

I had made that skin for personal use on my resolution.

BUT the theory is the same (as far as the way they will be produced)

aurick emailed me last night and the chosen size will be 690x118.

My plans for the first 2 ten packs are as follows:

One skin each representing the zodiaz signs.

a Safari series:

White tiger fur (cool huh? someone of a GREAT mind suggested that one

Elephant hide,zebra,cheatah,bengal tiger, etc etc etc.

The buttons will be centered (with an upgrade to auricks script ***thanks aurick***)

HEY! does this mean we have Auricks DashBoard 2.0?????

[aurick]

I haven't been able to get the centering issue resolved. Every time I get it to work right at one display resolution, the buttons go to strange places when the display settings are changed. I may need to go with different dashboards for different display settings. Aargh!

Is anyone having trouble with button position with the currently released version?

For 2.0, I'm thinking about maybe adding a new button or two as well. One would be a toggle to switch between landscape and portrait layout without changing the current canvas dimensions. Would anyone find this useful? Anybody have other things that they'd like to see? Just remember that I'm not a programmer (as the centering problem shows).

[Kathy]

hmmmmmmm...interesting and annoying. I have not the answers to help you.

BUT I like the 2.0 ideas.

[drjjwow]

i love your interface ideas kathy and i cant wait to see some of them... aurick i too was having problems with the bigger size images for the default script.. all the buttons went crazy... cant wait to see what version 2.0 will do... and the landscape idea sounds really cool... bring it on ok buddy.. also if theres some of you out there playing with the interfaces rem that the tm.. is pretty hard to make perfect as you can see with the image below...

[s o u t h e r n]

Aurick, you might want to fit in a line of user configurable buttons (Z1-Z10) or somthing. I have that on mine and I just assign stuff as I write it.

[aurick]

Z-keys, huh? If F are function keys, then are those Zap keys? Anyway, I'd been toying with the idea of user definable buttons -- since you've brought it up that means that other people probably would like to see it, too. The only thing that kept me from doing it was that for the user to define them means that they'll have to do some programming.

Guess I'll have to do that with version 2. Maybe even come up with a few "plug-ins" that are in text format and could just be dropped into one of the button slots, ready to go?

Thanks for the feedback!

[Muvlo]

Just throwing an idea out on the ZeeKeys, maybe it would be possible for you the user to decide this information in the script. The script would then save the file out through the strokepath file...

Maybe that is a crazy idea, since I don't know much about the stroke stuff...

or maybe it could be incoded into a small bmp or psd...

I have no idea if this is possible/practical.

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Also, my thought on centering. How about using the [PenMoveCenter] command. Then use the [PenMove,---,---] command, moving the whatever over half the pixels that make up the entire length of the whatever. Then for smaller objects do that but adjust it for different locations. Then everything would be centered at any resolution. I think. (?)

[drjjwow]

hey southern looks awesome... can you please tell me what was the z code for the small buttons and how to figure them... it would be nice to use the little floppy icon to save images from your default script..if at all possible...im not really sure how to program but so far with this subject im learning alot... aurick i cant wait to see what youll come up with next.. so far i managed to to increase your version 1.0 add a few buttons and add a topic display at the top,..the biggest background that i was able to get was 675x175..anything bigger makes the buttons disapear...lol isnt that funny..

[Kathy]

What Brain Storming!!!

I think it's a Category 5 Brain Storm!!!

[aurick]

I don't know squat about stroke paths or anything like that. As for the PenMoveCenter, I tried that. Didn't work. It's perfect at one display setting, but the buttons all end up either lost up above or sitting below the pic when you try to run the same script at another setting. I was getting a headache, so gave it a rest for a few. Will try more later.