DX is Dead R.I.P.

Published on May 18, 2010 By Murex In DesktopX

Now that I have your attention!!

I would like to discuss DX in general. With the arrival of windows 7 some parts of DX are really not necessary as a lot of programs that is used often can be pined to the task bar. So I am wondering what parts of DX are really used by the average user. Myself and Jim would like to see more skinners making DX themes. I know a lot of people are saying that DX is broke and to hard to use to make a theme. Well Jim and I both use DX Pro version 3.5 on windows 7 and for the most part it is pretty stable. I'm sure standard DX 3.5 will work just a good. At this point V 4 isn't worth installing.

Thanks to wonderful people like sViz and RomanDA there are now quite a few really good scripts to work with. If any one would like to either get back into DX skinning or would like to start skinning I would be happy to help any way that I can and I'm sure Jim would help out also.

As a user what objects do you find most usable?

DX Player

Weather

Clock

Calendar

Menus

Meters and Gauges

Do you like animations in the themes?

We would like to have your thoughts and comments. Please keep on topic and refrain from telling us how bad or borked or what a piece of crap DX is. WE already Know what does and does not work in DX.

Comments (Page 3)

willistuder

on May 23, 2010

PoSmedley

reply 30

YEP, I'm a busy bee these days, work has me on the road more than home.

I figured as much when you didn't get back to me. It's all good. The help you gave me got allowed me to egt further with it than I could have.

sViz has worked out the rest. Redneck pointed out I need to bring the bottom icons up a bit. Now I have to try and reassemble the weather object. The one I had was done before the weather stuff got all mucked up.

I'm glad to hear that you're going to be able to move forward. It'll be great to have another DX artist, especially one of your artistic ability. Occam looks really good.

PoSmedley

on May 23, 2010

It'll be great to have another DX artist, especially one of your artistic ability. Occam looks really good.

I've only done three of these things. Don't get your hopes up.

I can't move the icons on the bottom 'up' so they aren't off screen. I 'think' I got the weather wroking and managed to get the icons I made into it. Now I am struggling to add just a few more things and keep it all very simple and clean at the same time. Doing things in a minimalistic way has never been my strong suite.

RedneckDude

on May 23, 2010

I'm thinking the way to get the bottom icons up into the screen better would be to make the wall an object, and make it the parent of the other things, like the bottom icon mask, etc.

This may help to control positions better. I'm looking into that. Sorry so slow, busy here too.

sViz

on May 23, 2010

The position of the icons at the bottom are controlled by the Bottom_Icons_Mask script. There's two ways to change their top position.

1) Make the mask height larger, which will automatically reposition the icons higher (within the mask.)

2) Move the mask up in the script

To make it easier, replace the line highlighted above with these two:

Object.left = (centerX - (object.width/2))
Object.bottom = (system.screenheight - 15)

Then, if you want to move it further up, increase the number 15 to increase how far away from the screen bottom the mask sits.

PoSmedley

on May 23, 2010

The position of the icons at the bottom are controlled by the Bottom_Icons_Mask script.

Thanks. I knew the answer was there and should have known to resize it.

I may need to go back and redo the icons. Some of the groups aren't centering and it's bugging me. I have to tweak them so ALL of them are uniform...unfortunately I may have 'box' them all which would ruin what I was looking for.

RedneckDude

on May 23, 2010

You Go Eve!!!!!

Murex

on May 23, 2010

sViz has worked out the rest. Redneck pointed out I need to bring the bottom icons up a bit. Now I have to try and reassemble the weather object. The one I had was done before the weather stuff got all mucked up.

I'm glad that sViz was able to help you out. She has a heart of gold.

captainmoonlight

on May 23, 2010

I migrated over to Winstep, still use Windowblinds & OD tho.

I no longer use Dx any more most of the Dx will not work in w7 i use Winstep XTREME with my blinds now

Philly0381

on May 23, 2010

DX is working fine for me on Win 7 64 bit.

What are you having problems with captinmoonlight?

PoSmedley

on May 23, 2010

I might actually be able to finish this now.

Philly0381

on May 23, 2010

That is a very nice looking desktop PoSmedley.

captainmoonlight

on May 23, 2010

DX is working fine for me on Win 7 64 bit.

What are you having problems with captinmoonlight?

most of my dx themes is showing,security warrening messages all the meters do not work . I am using 32 bit and do not bother with it any more.

Philly0381

on May 23, 2010

I haven't seen those problems, have you emailed or PM'd the skinner to see if they can help?

PoSmedley

on May 23, 2010

most of my dx themes is showing,security warrening messages all the meters do not work

Are you running Vista? I get messages about 'accessing the meters' and stuff all the time.

RedneckDude

on May 23, 2010

Dx any more most of the Dx will not work in w7

Not true. I have everything working in 7 for DX that I had with Vista. All that don't work, really, is systray support.

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