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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: RejZoR on May 01, 2005, 06:47:43 PM
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It's not much for now,but i can show how it will look in the end or at least the idea od design.
(http://img194.echo.cx/img194/7199/avast46newedge5qd.png)
It's still in a very early stage,but for me it looks very promising and complete with splash screen design. On the other side i still have problem about edition text on it since we have two versions,but default skin is universal for both (while this new isn't).
More squared design will also help me finish all sliders and other stuff without major complications. Also no name for this skin (yet) :)
If everything goes well,this skin should have the most complex menu and button design to date. I just hope ActiveSkin won't cause any problems... :-\
Otherwise i'm hoping for support from Sasha if he has any time for this :)
Let me know what you think about design idea :)
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i like it
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I too like it as it should also be ok for low spec graphics and it matches in nicely with the avast! splash screen when starting the simple user interface.
I'm assuming the area to the right will be for the Detail Display, etc.?
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Yes,you are right. This info field will be on the right.
I'm also planning to make scan location buttons hidden until you click On-Demand.
This should be fairly easy to do i belive.
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Cool, this skin looks like the first real alternative for the "non-skinned" interface :)
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Yeah, I like this "naked" old-fashioned interface!!! Please, can you evaluate a similar but in blue, like this? I'm happy to see you at work after many many times!!! ;D
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DavidR had a good idea!!!
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Its not so much an idea as confirmation that was what RejZor was doing, much like the other skins.
I think RejZor's colour scheme was probably to make it and the simple user interface splash screen very much the same, forming a more corporate identity. I think he said in another thread about using blue as an avast identity (but an existing colour scheme for the splash screen would then differ).
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Yes. I remembered this fact of "blue". Is the reason why I filled in blue the skin. ;D
Unfortunately I don't understand how build skins (I downloaded the tool from avast! site... but it isn't clear for me). :'(
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Great job RejZoR ;D . Very nice. I like the idea how you based it on the splash screen.
I think it gives the illusion, that after the splash screen finishes loading, it immediately turns into the actual skin, which seems there wasn't any splash screen and it was the actual skin itself which was doing the memory scan. Especially if you have translucent effect on.
(http://img29.echo.cx/img29/9522/avast7oh.gif)
It going to be so cool! :D Can't wait until it comes out. ;)
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Well XtremeKirby, I must say that it doesn't work like that... avast! "remembers" your last position, where you turned off your program last time you used it, and on the other hand, avast! splash screen is always set in the center of the screen, so no matter what you do, it will always be on different position than your avast! main window, unless you always leave your avast! program when it's set exactly in the middle of the screen, which btw, is very hard to keep that way.
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I must say it blends in very good. ;D
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Interface was enlarged because of space problems,so it's not the same size as splash anymore.
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RejZor , for what my opinion is worth, which is probably not much, I like this very much. I Like it so much better than any I have seen yet. I think it is excellent!! :)
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RejZor, I know it just the beginning of real screenshoots and we can see just a plain brown panel, without showing sliding panels and rest of buttons, etc. it seems to be a nice project indeed ;)
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Ok now this is gonna take a bit longer. I forgot nearly everything since my last project and now it took me 10min to load base.bmp properly and adjust display_area >:(
If i'd only had an empty ActiveSKin project file (just without bitmaps). This would help me alot. Sasha,do you have one that is empty? It's really hard to track every thing from another skin and make it from scratch in my new project file.
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Sorry, I don't have any empty template or something like that. My advice is to always use some of the existing skins. Just because some weird things are happening with SkinBuilder. For example... if you wanna start from the scratch, you wanna make a button... everything works fine except, when you hover over that button, you'll not see little hand... you'll still see your mouse pointer arrow...
Also, I don't know where are those values located, but it looks that some things are kinda hardocoded inside existing skins... for example... try to change the name of any button on some existing skin... let's say, MENU button...
Compile the skin, and start it in avast! There is no little hand anymore... just your arrow when you hover over it... also, that little pop-up window is not showing up anymore. Where are those settings inside SkinBuilder. I can not find anything, and I've searched heaven and hell, believe me...
Same thing when you create new button... how to assign some action to that particular button. I had so many problems with latest skin Silhouette_3in1, with On-Demand Scan button. If you take a good look at it, there will be no little hand sign when you hover over it, and it suppose to be there when you hover over the button objects. I still have no clue how this works and how Martin assigned those actions for certain buttons. We should ask him for help on this one...
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Have you found out anything regarding that button issue I mentioned in my previous post ?
P.S. Please take a look at this reply:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=13208.msg112091#msg112091
I though it's impossible, but I managed to do that too... let me know are you interested to update that version on your web space, or maybe add new link (that would be much better IMHO)... anyway skin packages are not largein physical size...
Thanks in advance !
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Sure,just email me the stuff and i'll return you the link :)
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OK, thanks, I'm still working on this one, and as soon as I finish it, I'll send it to you...
Thanks again !