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Jan 30, 2001, 1:57am

Any chance of the AW browser interface being upgraded so we could make our
own skins for it.
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Jan 30, 2001, 10:11am

Skins usually make programs less stable and more prone to crashes. There
was recently a security vulnerability in the skin feature of Windows
Media Player 7. I doubt skins are high on "The List" of things Roland
wishes to fix/add to Active Worlds.

-Builderz

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Jan 30, 2001, 11:52am

I've never had a problem with Winamp and skins. But maybe they've had them in mind since the very early days...

-Agent1


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Jan 30, 2001, 6:23pm

[View Quote] Only if you don't do it the right way (and I don't say that's easy). But
this is not a problem of skins, it is a problem of every addition. Anything
you add can contain bugs.

> There
> was recently a security vulnerability in the skin feature of Windows
> Media Player 7

Microsoft doesn't really think when it comes to security.

>. I doubt skins are high on "The List" of things Roland
> wishes to fix/add to Active Worlds.

prolly - it doesn't add much to the program.

> -Builderz
>
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Jan 30, 2001, 10:28pm

i think skins are annoying.. leave the interface alone, if someone doesn't
like it-they don't have to use it....

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Jan 31, 2001, 1:35am

well i still feel the browsers look could be upgraded making it easy to use
dont have to skins necessarly
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Feb 3, 2001, 12:18pm

if you want skins you could use window blinds to skin aw
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Feb 3, 2001, 10:05pm

How many posts do there have to be of the same damn thing.. read old posts
before posting the same thing 3 times

Feb 5, 2001, 11:54pm

Skins would be nearly impossible leaving the AW browser as customizable as
it is. Theres the action buttons which change with each avatar, skinning
them would suck because of the various sizes, etc. Then theres the av menu
which changes for each world. If you're planning on skinned menus and
buttons you're prettymuch screwed. Then Theres the resizable/removable panes
on the main window. Skins are fixed size and don't grow very well. So if
someone made an 800x600 fullscreen skin, low res users would be out of luck
as would extremely high res users because 800x600 can get FRIGGIN TINY on
some resolutions. If they skinned the web pane, it's stuck open. If they
didn't you can't use it. If the skin's text pane is 3x the size of the view
pane, it's stuck that way. For things like Winamp where the menus don't
change, all is well and good. Also, Winamp windows aren't resizable with the
exception of the playlist and minibrowser which are special exceptions to
the rule because the edges of the window can be extended.

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Feb 6, 2001, 8:53am

[View Quote] Skins do *not* have to be fixed size. If you want to skin something with a
variable size, you use building parts. If you want to skin a variable sized
button, you make little pictures for the corners, the sides and the center,
and then the program can assemble the whole button out of it. This requires
more work, but it's certainly possible. And it wouldn't be slower or
something than a fixed size skin, except for when you create the button -
and you would hardly notice it.

> and don't grow very well. So if
> someone made an 800x600 fullscreen skin, low res users would be out of
luck
> as would extremely high res users because 800x600 can get FRIGGIN TINY on
> some resolutions. If they skinned the web pane, it's stuck open.

This wouldn't be true even with fixed size skins. You could always make a
skin with the webpane and one without.

> If they
> didn't you can't use it.

see above

> If the skin's text pane is 3x the size of the view
> pane, it's stuck that way. For things like Winamp where the menus don't
> change, all is well and good. Also, Winamp windows aren't resizable with
the
> exception of the playlist and minibrowser which are special exceptions to
> the rule because the edges of the window can be extended.

That's one example of a resizable skin. You could do that for everything,
and you are set. Winamp uses a very basic kind of skinning, and in one way
this is good because it makes skins recognizable (all controls are always at
the same place). On the other hand, they gave up resizing for it. On yet
another hand, resizing winamps main window isn't really useful at all.

rolu

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