[release] Danimator's Panther Pack V1.0

[Danimator]

borninhalloween> You didn't do all your windwos updates first did ya? You MUST update everything first, the mod.

kemenaran> Get truelaunchbar (the beta v18, not the older final vers.) install it, right click taskbar, toolbars...truelaunchbar....hide quick launch also..Then right click taskbar, choose "make new menu" and name it Finder, File, Edit, etc etc etc..do allt hose, tehn just right click one of those new dropdown menus and add what ya want.

Gladiator> Probably cuz ya didn't install the font, it's in the mod pack.

oh also, in the mod pack, the part about Lucida Sans Unicode Size=10...after doing that, if ya still get the cut-offf prob...change it to size =11, apply, reboot, and then change it back to size=10.

Everyone> The Comctl32.dll probs some guys get (no toptoolbar showing up in c.panel items).....Works for some people, doesn't for others, no idea:) I'm guessing you have to have all 3 of those ..Common Controls.. folders in your installation, and not be missing one of them, etc. Anyway, the comctl32.dll from the mod's folder, ending with "...70a" is the one that does the bitmap. So ya might wanna reshack that one, and add it to the others if ya find you don't get toptoolbar.

P.S. Make sure ya read the instructions guys, SOME of these probs are because ya didn't read them, ya don't read ya don't get help next time

[gable]

Dan

is there a quick way to uninstall this so i can redo somethings

i don't see anything about that in the readme

thanks

gable

[Dream_Team]

anyone's planning to port it to windows xp french ?

[BlackIce]

Wow those look awesome, but can some people post more screen shots or was that all that was modded. I love flyakites a lot, and I just wanna know if this worth the switch over.

[lecorbu]

Hi,

First of all congratulations for this pack!!

Second, sorry for my english i´m spanish.

I´ve installed the pack yesterday and i have some problems:

- Menu fonts are too big.

- System Preferences window doesn´t look like your screenshots, it´s look like windows.

I have follow all the instructions and install your windowblinds visual style.

Could you help me?

Thanks.

[sei-aidyn]

Danimator: would it be a good idea to uninstall Flyakite first before i use your mods?

[lostspyder]

Ok i realy want this pack, but all the servers frankly suck. The original server is down, and has been for a while, the mixx studio doesnt support resume, so i get to like 29megs on dialup, and the dialup disconects itself and i have to start all over and the tiger server is down.

Wheres simon?

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by lecorbu@Jul 1 2004, 07:42 AM

Hi,

First of all congratulations for this pack!!

Second, sorry for my english i´m spanish.

I´ve installed the pack yesterday and i have some problems:

- Menu fonts are too big.

- System Preferences window doesn´t look like your screenshots, it´s look like windows.

I have follow all the instructions and install your windowblinds visual style.

Could you help me?

Thanks.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you Menu fonts are too big, try display properties->appareance->Advanced->"other Advanced"...in the dropdown Menu choose "Menu" and change the fonts to Lucida Sans Unicode to size 10 (or 11 o 9)...

And about the System Preference did you change all the Comct32.dll Files?...

If yo did....everyone and the right way....Then you have the same problem as me....It is just not possible to change them, I also have this problem and I tried so many times to change them..(even in Safe mode) but nothing!..

Alittle more better in spanish I think?

Primero.

Si tu letras son demas de grande, Vete a hase derecho click, sobre tur Desktop y despues "Get info"....vas a donde puedes cambiar tu appariencia...y ahi Advanced (y tambe si estas usando Windowblinds.tienes que ir tambien en Other advanced) y ahi en e menu ...escoje por "Menu" y cambie la letra a Lucida Sans Unicode de grande 10 (o 11 0 9)...ves si eso te ayuda...

Y sobr'e tu "system preference"...Tu tambien tienes la problema que yo tengo.

Es algo que no podemos hacer nada. Si cambiaste los "files" Comct32.dll....bien..no puedes hacer nada.....

Yo tambien tengo ese problema ..intende de todo para ver si pudia cambiarlo..pero nada...intende haste in " Safe mode" pero nada....no sabemos porque a uno si cambie y a otros no...

thanks

-=LT=-

[lecorbu]

Thanks Little Tiger,

Your spanish is better than my english!!

About the system preferences, yes, i changed all the comct32.dll even in safe mode like you, but nothing...

About menu fonts i changed the fonts to size 10 but the problem goes on!!

I´ve got the same problem with internet explorer, the window doesn´t look like the mod screenshots,it´s lok like window, did you have the same problem???

Thanks for your help.

Ahora lo pongo en español para que practiques un poco...

- Sobre la ventana de Preferencias del Sistema si que he cambiado las comct32.dll y el problema sigue igual. He probado a cambiarlo también en modo seguro pero nada de nada.

- Sobre las fuentes, el problema aparece al usar windowblinds y el skin the danimator, he cambiado el tamaño de letra y la cosa no mejora mucho.

Gracias por tu ayuda.

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by lecorbu@Jul 1 2004, 05:28 PM

Thanks Little Tiger,

Your spanish is better than my english!!

About the system preferences, yes, i changed all the comct32.dll even in safe mode like you, but nothing...

About menu fonts i changed the fonts to size 10 but the problem goes on!!

I´ve got the same problem with internet explorer, the window doesn´t look like the mod screenshots,it´s lok like window, did you have the same problem???

Thanks for your help.

Ahora lo pongo en español para que practiques un poco...

- Sobre la ventana de Preferencias del Sistema si que he cambiado las comct32.dll y el problema sigue igual. He probado a cambiarlo también en modo seguro pero nada de nada.

- Sobre las fuentes, el problema aparece al usar windowblinds y el skin the danimator, he cambiado el tamaño de letra y la cosa no mejora mucho.

Gracias por tu ayuda.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

thanks..

well make a screenshot for me....

Cause I can't seems to see the problem..when changing the menu fonts ..it must do something..make a screenshot where I can see the system preference and the choice of the font size..

thanks

-=LT=-

Spanish is my 3rd langauge of the 4 that I can talk ..so not that bad

[lecorbu]

Originally posted by Little_Tiger@Jul 1 2004, 05:49 PM

thanks..

well make a screenshot for me....

Cause I can't seems to see the problem..when changing the menu fonts ..it must  do something..make a screenshot where I can see the system preference and the choice of the font size..

thanks

-=LT=-

Spanish is my 3rd langauge of the 4 that I can talk ..so not that bad

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi,

I´ve fixed the fonts problem

Thanks for all... (Y)

[kmccormi]

edit: ignore this ... daminator answered my question below

[Danimator]

sei-aidyn> Nope, ya shouldn't need to, just very important that ya do windows updates before ya do my mods. (Just read the readme.txt instructions, and folllow it exactly, and ya shouldn't have a prob.)

[pst9er]

Screenshots look great, job well done.

Before I download, I was wondering, well, actually, I guess I'll explain what the problem is before I ask if it's any different or if I'm doing something wrong: I know that skinning scrollbars is tricky in programs like IE that don't use standard Windows scrollbars. So I assume that's why the bars aren't alpha'd in IE, and are just rectangles with white to round off the corners. A small question is whether or not normal scrollbars can have more than single bit-alphas for the rounded corner effect--i.e., there's a pixel-thin border around the curves because the transparency is either on or off--not blended. Is there any way around this, or might this/future releases address this? Or is it just that WindowBlinds can't skin the scrollbars like that?

A more problematic issue is that when the scrollbar gets really small, it starts having noticable problems. Like collapsing unevenly, forming a kind of unsymmetrical oval, I guess, until, ultimately, one half of (circle-sized) bar seems to just overlap the otherone. So all of my really small bars are semi circles. Which is weird. The other thing is that as they get smaller, the overall shape of the bar with respect to its height (for vertical scrolls) gets more rectangular, so that when it's all the way at the top or bottom, it just, like, covers up the space at the top like a rectangle, instead of giving the appearance of it being curved any more, so... yeah.

Not that this is a big deal, the skin is still incredible/the best I've encountered, but the scrollbar issues can be distracting sometimes, so I figured I'd see if there was any hope.

Thanks, and great work, as usual:-D

[kmccormi]

new question ... and i guess this is more of a general computer question but since i'm dealing with the issue here, i'll ask it here:

i installed flyakite's package, which means that all my original files were backed up. now if i'm installing this pack over flyakite's, will the flyakite files now get re-saved as the backed-up original files, thereby replacing my original windows ones that were backed up the first time around? sorry if that's confusing...

i have never encountered a major problem where i needed to restore everything back to the way it was originally, but i never rule that chance out and i'd always like to have my original files on hand ... i just would be upset if flyakite's mods were saved as backups where original files should be.

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by pst9er@Jul 2 2004, 12:19 AM

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snip....snip

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey pst9er,

I also had ask Danimator about this. I also said I don't like it when the scrollbar doesn't stay a circle. And the answer I got is that. First there is nothing that can be done. It's a 'problem' that windows bmp doesn't go "that" small...

thanks

-=LT=-

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by kmccormi@Jul 2 2004, 02:26 AM

new question ... and i guess this is more of a general computer question but since i'm dealing with the issue here, i'll ask it here:

i installed flyakite's package, which means that all my original files were backed up.  now if i'm installing this pack over flyakite's, will the flyakite files now get re-saved as the backed-up original files, thereby replacing my original windows ones that were backed up the first time around?  sorry if that's confusing...

i have never encountered a major problem where i needed to restore everything back to the way it was originally, but i never rule that chance out and i'd always like to have my original files on hand ... i just would be upset if flyakite's mods were saved as backups where original files should be.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

hey,

why not make a copy of that folder of your originally backup..(maybe dllcache)..and install it...there should be no problem!..

thanks

-=LT=-

[XanthraX]

I installed Danimator's Panther Pack V1.0., FOLLOWING EXACTLY THE INSTRUCTIONS fomr the package. It looks allready awesome, but I encoundered some problems:

- Most important services are locked, e.g. Network coonection service, cannot start its.

- Cannot see the properties of the services in the services window

- The drag & drop function is gone. Maybe a stoped service is responsible.

- Clipboard don't work properly (can copy, but cannot paste).

I need to know what dlls are responsible with these errors (maybe are most others, but I didn't see them).

Till this time, I will use the Flyakyte.

Sorry

[pst9er]

Originally posted by Little_Tiger@Jul 2 2004, 10:03 AM

Hey pst9er,

I also had ask Danimator about this. I also said I don't like it when the scrollbar doesn't stay a circle. And the answer I got is that. First there is nothing that can be done. It's a 'problem' that windows bmp doesn't go "that" small...

thanks

-=LT=-

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ah, thank you! I figured it was something that was out of his control. Thanks for getting to the bottom of that

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by XanthraX@Jul 2 2004, 10:31 AM

I installed Danimator's Panther Pack V1.0., FOLLOWING EXACTLY THE INSTRUCTIONS fomr the package. It looks allready awesome, but I encoundered some problems:

- Most important services are locked, e.g. Network coonection service, cannot start its.

- Cannot see the properties of the services in the services window

- The drag & drop function is gone. Maybe a stoped service is responsible.

- Clipboard don't work properly (can copy, but cannot paste).

I need to know what dlls are responsible with these errors (maybe are most others, but I didn't see them).

Till this time, I will use the Flyakyte.

Sorry

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Also I had this problem. There is one file that didn't get replaced, And that one file is doing this.

Try to do this again!. But in safe mode. And pls file that the Replacer didn't change you have..again.. you HAVE to replace them manually. Pls follow the instruction on how to do it manually.

When you first run the replacer. There are a few files that won't get replaced..write them down (or as I do after finishing the first time running the replacer..just run it again you will see the same files and change them then and stop the replacer)....and also. During the replacing a few files might / probably won't get replaced..those you have to see and write them done and replaced them. Also the Comct32.dll files are very important that you change those the right way. try those again the right way (meaning following the replacer!)...

thanks

-=LT=-

[Danimator]

XanthraX> That happens if you don't do the windows update's before ya do the mods. You MUST do that first.

[iMac G5]

Can anyone link me this pack that i download it with getright.tHanX

[Fatal]

I've got it downloaded waiting here, and so far I've only installed the WB theme, WinDVD skin, and Trillian skin. All fantastic.

When I get some time I'll go and install all the system files!

Can't believe this hasn't made the front page news?

[Danimator]

hey all, sorry if I haven't answered all your questions, etc yet. Been a really bad past couple of days, to make a long story short, this'll be my last night with internet for a while, as I was just kicked out of my house, and am looking for somewhere to stay, so obviously I won't have time to devote to any of this stuff right now. If all works out, whenever I get back online, I'll try to get back to ya's when I can.Later.

Dan

[Little_Tiger]

Originally posted by Danimator@Jul 3 2004, 07:16 AM

hey all, sorry if I haven't answered all your questions, etc yet. Been a really bad past couple of days, to make a long story short, this'll be my last night with internet for a while, as I was just kicked out of my house, and am looking for somewhere to stay, so obviously I won't have time to devote to any of this stuff right now. If all works out, whenever I get back online, I'll try to get back to ya's when I can.Later.

Dan

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

OH?? sorry to hear that man, well take care hope to see you around soon.

And I'll be here ansering any question that I can answer. (Also have alot of experience in this when it comes with errors!)

well shoot me with question ..

thanks

-=LT=-