Themebar2

oh yeah all us girls know basic scripting... hehe <BR> <BR>well we could just bug you guys I guess, but this sounds outragious and I&acute;m excited!!! I just sent Eric an e-mail, please tell him not to forget about me, I&acute;m carrying my mail box around w/ me today, can&acute;t wait. <BR> <BR>Thanks you guys! you were so quiet for a while, I got worried about you, <BR>sounds like this was worth the wait! =)

oh John! <BR>I&acute;m driving around w/ Snow Flakes falling!! =) <BR>very cool, I will be in touch w/ you guys probably Sat or Sun night after I get Thanksgiving over with <BR> <BR>Thanks so much, this is alot of fun! <BR> <BR>Tell Eric I could not find the controls on the winter one cuz they are hidden until you mouseover to find them, kinda like trying to drive a car w/o the steering wheel... hehe <BR>(nice that height of the panel is slimmer on this one) <BR> <BR>But &quot;VERY&quot; Beautiful, tell him =)

Hhhmmm.... A few people seem to have this problem. gRAVE is going to have to look into that I think ;) <BR> <BR>Anyhow, try and use this link to submit: <BR> <BR>http://www.skinbase.org/uploads.php3

I didn&acute;t see the &quot;submit skin&quot; section. Oh well, I&acute;ll be back Monday. <BR> <BR>John

And now we need the screenshot/s ;)

Cool. Thanks.

John: Screenshots? Absolutely! <BR> <BR> <BR>Under your Logged in info, there&acute;s a selection to &quot;submit skins&quot;. <BR> <BR>Go there, select &quot;Screenshots&quot; from the section menu. <BR> <BR>Use your screenshot for BOTH the filename, and for the preview. <BR> <BR>After you hit enter, the file will upload. You&acute;ll be given a preview, and there will be a pulldown choice of &quot;sub catagory&quot;. <BR> <BR>Pick &quot;Windows&quot;, and click &quot;Save it Now&quot; <BR> <BR>BAM! <BR>You&acute;re up and running... <BR> <BR>{:p

Oh, one more thing, to make life as easy as possible for WebPanel designers, WebPanel will notify your panel when it&acute;s time to start and stop animation. If you&acute;re using vbscript in your panel, you simply implement these functions: <BR> <BR>sub WebPanel_OnAnimateStart <BR> <BR>end sub <BR> <BR>sub WebPanel_OnAnimateStop <BR> <BR>end sub <BR> <BR>for jscript or javascript: <BR> <BR>function WebPanel_OnAnimateStart() <BR>{ <BR> <BR>} <BR> <BR>function WebPanel_OnAnimateStop() <BR>{ <BR> <BR>} <BR> <BR>WebPanel will call these functions appropriately. <BR> <BR>Is it possible to post screenshots here? If so, how? <BR> <BR>thx, <BR> <BR>John <BR> <BR>

Hi Doreen, actually the extendes skewed bar and the extended ie4 mac are the ones that I use more frequently. <BR> <BR>Eric&acute;s working on &quot;Winter&quot; or &quot;Blizzard&quot; or whatever he&acute;s gonna name it. It has falling snowflakes. There&acute;s also a function called window.external.WebPanel_SetHeight that allows you to dynamically adjust the height of your panels. I originally added this feature so that panel designers could set the height exactly how they wanted it, but being that its dynamic, I can think of some cool toolbars that might allow you to click a button to expand the panel for more options and shrink it to show only the most common ones. <BR> <BR>Anyway, so far the testing is going better than I imagined. We had one small set of initial bugs and that&acute;s been it so far. We&acute;ll give them another week or two to make sure there are no crashes. <BR> <BR>In the meantime, we&acute;ll keep making more panels! <BR> <BR>Fun.

Darnit - I wanna skin that bad boy! <BR>{:p

Oh Man!!!!!! you guys are really really missing out... hahahaha <BR> <BR>okay the current default themes are pretty much like something I would make, &quot;BUT&quot; the cool effects such as the Shooting stars and &quot;slide out control panel&quot; is awesome! <BR> <BR>you guys will love this! =) <BR> <BR>John you&acute;ve got to be kidding using &quot;my&quot; toolbar still? oh you are too much! hehe =) <BR> <BR>I&acute;ve been using Paxx&acute;s since he made it &quot;Skewed&quot; my fav!

Hey that looks awesome! Make sure you post news about the release in December. Up top there.... Submit News ;)

Nope, it&acute;s for real. :-) If you can create a Web page and know basic scripting, you can make a WebPanel. In the words of Eric, &quot;these are fun, addictive, and easy to make&quot;. Sending a command to IE from your panel is as simple as: <BR> <BR>window.external.WebPanel_GoBack <BR>window.external.WebPanel_Navigate &quot;http://www.skinbase.org&amp;quot; <BR>and tons more... <BR> <BR>It&acute;s cool. At least we think so. ;-)

I had originally envisioned making only the toolbar web enabled back in TB1. We probably would have left it alone until I started poking around with Outlook Express. Then, the WebPanel idea turned out to be pretty cool. <BR> <BR>Eric and I sit next to each other here at work. He&acute;ll send you the info. <BR> <BR>We&acute;re certainly enjoying WebPanel. The cool thing is that you can make them so easily and quickly, and that each one is different. <BR> <BR>John

well, I should be working but I don&acute;t mind playing first! <BR>have him send me the info when he gets alittle break ;) <BR> <BR>Thanks again. =)

He would but he&acute;s got all the info that you need at home. :-( <BR> <BR>Expect a response around 5pm-ish eastern standard time.

Hey Doreen, saw the post on Teknidermy. <BR> <BR>Although the tdermy post says &quot;unfortunately they only want Doreen to test&quot;, we want everyone to know that we have more people testing as we speak. We put up a signup form <BR>a coupla weeks ago and chose 20 based on system configuration. <BR> <BR> <BR>Can&acute;t wait to see what kind of WebPanels you come up with! (Once you get the beta that is :-) ) <BR>

Oh so then I&acute;m not special??? hehe <BR>and I just changed my nic from Doreen to _Doreen_ <BR>guess I better change it back now... <BR> <BR>Thanks John <BR>I&acute;ll be looking out for it tonight, don&acute;t expect too much from me, you guys must not remember my other themebar skins too well or something... hehe ;) <BR> <BR> <BR>

Well, darn! Hurry up and get to testing! I want new toys! <BR>{:p

Ha! Of course you are. You were TB&acute;s biggest fan. If there&acute;s anyone who we wanted to test TB2, it was you. I said from the start, once we send to all the beta testers, we need to send to Doreen. :-) <BR> <BR>Actually I still use your toolbar. In any case WebPanels are much much easier to create. If you can create a Web page, you can create a WebPanel. <BR> <BR>John

Koasati is pouting, coz he doesn&acute;t get to beta test......... =(

Thanks. I&acute;ll tell him. It&acute;s a wee bit too empty for my tastes, but I have to admit, the falling snowflakes have a calming effect. Let us know if you have any problems. Most of the beta testers are reporting no problems. I&acute;ve been able to fix most of the issues that the testers have found, so far. <BR> <BR>thx, <BR> <BR>

OK, what am i missing, when I go to the Themebar site, all I get is info and shots about v 1.2. Where is the version2?? I wanna try it! Bouhou!! :)

Oh Paxxy your gonna love this! I&acute;m hoping you&acute;ll make the &quot;skewed bar&quot; to match up for Outlook express pleazzzzzzzzzzz <BR> <BR>shoot off an e-mail to Eric <BR>his e-mail address is listed in the first post of this thread up on top.

thank you John <BR>no issues so far =) <BR>and I&acute;ve got Tons of great ideas for skins for this! but unfortunetly no &quot;real&quot; graphic skills to back it up =( <BR> <BR>I spotted some of my old skins in this build while testing and How embarassing! <BR>you guys need to trash those I&acute;m serious! they will chase away downloaders of themebar... hehe <BR> <BR>Paxxy is the man! (well for me he is I&acute;m stuck on his particular style)

Sorry to reply so late but I was adding a neat feature to WebPanel. If you seriously don&acute;t want some of the images in the package, let us know and we&acute;ll remove them. BTW, WebPanel supports 59 commands. I realized that some people might think that only whats on the current panels, (i.e. back, forward, etc. . . ) are all of them. They&acute;re not. There&acute;s 59. Basically every menu command in IE is supported and can be called from your panel. <BR> <BR>Anyway, Outlook Express uses a different format for skinning the toolbar than the old Themebar format. Before, you had to create the entire toolbar. Now, for OE only, you draw the buttons that you want and provide a map file letting Themebar know which buttons are which. We&acute;ll explain all of this when we finish the dev guide. <BR> <BR>Paxx, 2.0 info is at: <BR> <BR>http://www.microgarden.com/themebar/betainfo.htm <BR> <BR>thx, <BR> <BR>John

Hi John =) <BR>no I figured that much (about the 59 commands cuz it seemed Eric only did up quicky skins just to test) <BR> <BR>It looks like the sky is the limit w/ this build if you have a good imagination and skills to back it up. I cannot wait to see what happens w/ this! <BR> <BR>I don&acute;t see any bugs at all so far...

I am trying to make a WebPanel for testing purposes, but I get a 404 when I try to apply it. Either that or a complete white page. Man, some documentation will be useful I think. :)

Hey Paxx, docs are coming, sorry! We&acute;re working on them now. Do the other panels run fine? Most of our panels were created with Frontpage. They&acute;re basically just Web pages. <BR> <BR>thx, <BR> <BR>John